Software is computer code that tells a computer how to perform a specific task. There are many kinds of software, including operating systems, applications, and malware. Software can be distributed ...

With all the hoopla about Software-as-a-Service apps and mobile computing, it’s easy to forget that infrastructure software—everything from operating systems to middleware to databases—remains the ...

If every protagonist in the service-based, cloud-centric, software-integrated connected world is to be believed, the age of monolithic software is dead. They now talk about the merits of ‘composable’ ...

If you've been using a personal computer for long enough, you've probably made a habit of interchangeably referring to the applications on your hard drive as programs or software. Both terms have been ...

It’s time to re-imagine the application software space again. This once a decade occurrence has the potential to upend the leader boards in this space but what specifically will this new generation of ...

In the beginning, real-time operating systems (RTOSs) were primarily used in military, aerospace, and high-end industrial control applications. This has changed dramatically as low-cost, fast, and ...

Software that manages the availability of network-centered applications within an organization, such as email, intranets and client/server. It monitors all the components of an application to see if ...