Computer users around the world are discovering that open-source software speaks their language.
Plus, MemSQL's software "speaks MySQL protocol", so, according to Frenkiel, that means that there is no need for a code change for applications that talk to MySQL databases.
Apple's mobile users can now pick among 100,000 games and entertainment applications to play on their mobile devices, said Scott Forstall, Apple's senior vice president for iPhone software, speaking at the company's annual developer conference in San Francisco last week.
The article on voice-recognition software ("Speak Softly, Carry a Big Chip," March 30) was interesting, but I got to the point where the article says you speak as you ordinarily do, not with your best "radio voice," and that got me wondering.
It has been marked for "deprecation," which in software speak means it is "not in active development and might be removed in future releases".
And Matt Asay, a blogger and executive of Alfresco, an open-source software company, speaks for many in the open-source movement when he says that Microsoft "is the only major software company other than SAP that has not fully engaged with the open-source community".Microsoft's approach to open source hints that the firm has not yet made up its mind what it wants to be.
He and Mr. Chen have already outfitted it with software that speaks much like a screen reader on a PC.
A software voice speaks menu names and initial letters as you turn the control knob, so you can keep your eyes on the road — helpful to people whose players hold a zillion songs.
The question he was looking to answer in the process was how movies like "The Band Wagon," "Camille," "The Red Shoes" and "Cabaret" found that "software" he speaks of: how they used song and spectacle differently to reach audiences shaped by their different times.
It wasn't for lack of trying by my engineers; they tried valiantly to integrate (hack) antiquated databases in order to get our patient engagement software to speak securely to legacy systems.
