“I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market. By Richard Sandomir Martin Goetz, who joined ...

Microsoft Research has had 7,000 downloads of its Comega programming technology, which is intended to bridge the gap between relational, object, and XML data models. Comega, or Cω, is described by ...