Application Development News & Articles


Oracle tools strategy: 10G signals grid direction

Oracle’s application business draws attention right now, but its evolving tools tactics are crucial to legions of developers grappling with data, Java and XML.

Can real-time integration secure the homeland?

Colorado company uses information sharing to tie together security agencies.

XML Beans: Where Java meets data

According to Frank Martinez, chairman and chief technology officer at San Francisco-based Blue Titan Software Inc., XML Beans solve a very significant impedance mismatch problem that exists between the world of Java and the world of XML.

Aberdeen says information integration growing

A recent report from market watchers at the Aberdeen Group (''Enterprise Information Integration -- The New Way to Leverage E-information,'' Second Edition) pegs that market's growth rate at 80% and claims that it is ''on the brink of strong growth and implementation by a wide variety of Fortune 1000 companies.''

5 stories about XML and integration

Users find value -- and challenge -- in the handy markup language that could.

Goyal takes Lotus helm

ADT’s Jack Vaughan spoke recently with IBM’s new Lotus group head, Ambuj Goyal. He talked to us from his offices in Sommers, N.Y.

Sun woos HP's AlphaServer base

New push spurred by end of development for the Alpha/Tru64 platform.

Oracle 9i JDeveloper seeks wider following

New version offers more tools.

Checking in on Python papa Guido van Rossum

A look at how Python began, and where it's going.

JBoss Group developers head for greener open-source pastures

New venture to be called Core Developers Network.

New version of Berkeley DB handles XML natively

New link between XML and data.

JBoss releases developer edition

New lower cost version available from open-source vendor.

Special Report: Borland -- Competitors view Borland's life-cycle plans

Web-only material related to the subject of our June 2003 cover story (Borland Software).

Borland tries again

Observers are cautiously optimistic that Borland’s integrated toolsets for the application development life cycle could take the company to the next level.

Two-headed analyst tour

While Inprise/Borland was a two-headed company that confused much of the software world, the original Borland name still stood for something.

Can Borland ride the life cycle?

Acquisitions fuel latest move to gain a foothold in enterprise IT with tools for each phase of the development life cycle; CEO promises the firm won’t forget developer roots this time.

Cobol lives on with new tools, standards

Mainframe mainstay served by new offering from IBM as well as continued development from ISVs.

Mercury optimizes J2EE delivery, management

Mercury announced Optane for J2EE app performance management. It builds on technology purchased recently along with Performant.

Gartner fellow: 'No pure-play portal market in five years'

Expert says the shift towards software suites will soon absorb an already-shrinking sector.