Application Development Trends' News


Altiris Tool Creates Vista Installations

Altiris announced it is shipping Wise Installation Studio 7.0, an updated tool designed for creating installations for Windows Vista, 64-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Mobile 5 devices.

TIBCO Sponsors AJAX for Java Project

TIBCO Software is the first corporate sponsor of Direct Web Remoting, an open-source Java communications library, designed for Web developers employing the AJAX techniques.

IBM Opening SOA Leadership Centers Worldwide

IBM on Monday announced it plans to open a number of SOA Leadership Centers around the world.

AutomatedQA Adds Vista Support

AutomatedQA, the Las Vegas-based testing-tools maker, has upgraded its flagship TestComplete product to include support for Windows Vista applications. The newly released TestComplete 5 also supports Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 Web testing.

Impressive Growth Ahead for Application Server Market

What’s at stake in the fiercely contested application server race? Plenty, according to market watcher IDC, which has IBM Corp., BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., and a host of other vendors vying for their share of a surging application server market segment. The prize, IDC says, is a doozy: annual revenues of $4.5 billion—and counting.

salesforce.com Is Validating SaaS Model, Say Industry Watchers

The salesforce.com AppStore announcement grabbed plenty of headlines just before the holidays. Salesforce.com's chief exec Marc Benioff says he wants his company to become "the iTunes of on-demand apps." The company's soon-to-launch AppStore is designed to allow customers to browse, test, and purchase AppExchange software from third-party developers.

Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate Ships

Microsoft began shipping the release candidate for Virtual PC 2007 last week, putting the virtualization environment on track for final shipment in the first quarter as expected.

Retooled K2.net Targets Developers and Business Users

BlackPearl is a major upgrade of the K2.net 2003 Enterprise Workflow Platform, which includes a K2.net Studio design environment, Server, Workspace, and Service Manager. The new platform allows users to design, build and edit processes in several environments including Microsoft Visio 2007, a browser-based interface, SharePoint Server 2007 and Visual Studio 2005.

Updated Docs for SQL Compact Edition

After shipping the first release candidate, or RC1, of SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition in mid-November, Microsoft quietly began shipping RC1 of the product's documentation, which has been updated to reflect the database's recent renaming, in late December.

Buy and Build: webMethods Releases New Version of BPM/SOA Platform

On December 22, webMethods shipped version 7.0 of its flagship Fabric suite. The 7.0 release followed a year of acquisitions as the company put key technology in place for its BPM/SOA platform.

Microsoft Ships Betas of 'Centro' and 'Cougar'

While Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 are virtually out the door, Microsoft continues its march towards updating its server products to match.

Platform Play: Google Open Sources AJAX Toolkit

Google is releasing its Java software development framework as open source software under the Apache 2.0 open-source license.

Microsoft Releases Two Visual Studio Service Packs

Microsoft released a Service Pack update and an SP beta for its Visual Studio 2005 IDE. The Visual Studio 2005 SP1, and the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista beta both went live on Friday on Microsoft's Visual Studio Developer Center Web site.

Microsoft and HP Sign $300M Services Pact

Microsoft and HP announced Wednesday a three-year $300 million deal to collaborate in selling hardware, software and services to their joint customers.

RoboShop: Microsoft Launches Partner Program for Robotics Developers

Microsoft is shipping Robotics Studio 1.0, a development environment for creating robotic software that runs on a variety of hardware platforms. In addition, the company introduced a third-party partner program featuring Robotics Studio-enabled applications, services and robots from independent software vendors, service providers, hardware component vendors and robot manufacturers.

Private Beta Begins for Voice Server 2007

Microsoft said this week it has begun a private beta for its enterprise voice communications server, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, sending it out to 2,500 IT professionals.

Next Rev of Firefox Already in Alpha

Firefox 2.0 has been out for less than two months but Mozilla.org developers have already released alpha code for the next major version.

Microsoft Releases 7 Patches for Windows, IE, Visual Studio Flaws

Microsoft Corp. today announced a bevy of patches -- seven, in all -- that address vulnerabilities in its Visual Studio IDE and Windows operating environments.

Seapine Upgrades Testing and Configuration Tools

Seapine Software is releasing new versions of its ALM products TestTrack Pro and Surround SCM 5. The company is also launching TestTrack TCM, a new tool for test case planning and tracking that integrates with TestTrack Pro.

Sun Releases Java Platform Standard Edition 6

Java SE 6 pulls together a host of new features for Web services, dynamic language support, diagnostics, and desktop applications