Application Development Trends' News


In Brief: Distributed denial of service attack and more

Attack detected on 13 root DNS servers, SuSE Linux and TurboLinux in strategic alliance, and more.

Data Junction, NeoCore target 'XML on-ramps and off-ramps'

NeoCore Inc., Colorado Springs, Colo., and Data Junction Corp., Austin, Texas, this week disclosed plans to combine NeoCore's XML Information Management Systems (XMS) database with Data Junction's ETL capabilities.

XML busy under the hood of new Adobe servers

XML technology continues to contribute to advances in corporate computing. One of the latest examples comes from Adobe, which has just unleashed a new set of servers.

Intel, AMD in war of words

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices strut their stuff at the Micro Processor Forum trade show.

Intel, Microsoft season speech with SALT

Intel and Microsoft are jointly developing technologies and a reference design based on the Speech Applications Language Tags (SALT) 1.0 specification submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in August.

Make the most of XSL-FO; lively up those Web services!

XSL-FO, which provides a framework for the useful formatting of semantics for paginating information for better browser navigation and print support, can be a Web services creator's best friend, says Ken Holman.

Sun losses mount; to cut 4,400 jobs

Sun executives have outlined plans to slash its workforce by 11%.

No boost seen in PC sales

Market research firm Dataquest Inc. says corporations worldwide are continuing to postpone personal computer purchases.

TDK exec: 802.11g -- The standard we don't need

TDK Systems Europe Managing Director Nick Hunn writes that the IEEE standards body seems to have forgotten that for WLAN to take off, it must be seens as simple technology by end users.

Web service reality is integration

While the promise of Web services may be elaborate e-business applications running on the Internet, the reality of the XML-based technology implementations remains much more mundane, according to Bob Potter, executive vice president of business operations at Iona Technologies, Waltham, Mass.

Analytic tool seeks hidden meaning of words

Harnessing unstructured data from customers can boost efficiency and revenues. Island Data's Insight RT seeks to understand the hidden meaning of words within the context of specific customer interactions.

Joint effort to ease Oracle app migrations

Ascential Software Corp., Westboro, Mass., and Top Team Inc., San Mateo, Calif., will use the Oracle user group stage in San Francisco next month to unveil a joint solution aimed at easing corporate migrations to the Oracle 11i database and applications suite.

Pervasive on replication trail

Pervasive Software has released a candidate edition of Pervasive.SQL Version 8 for public testing.

Microsoft exec unwraps Jupiter plan

Microsoft officials have unveiled Jupiter, code name for the company's vision for an "IT ecosystem of information" based on XML Web services.

Users crave info on Microsoft's Titanium

Attendees at last week's Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC 2002) in Anaheim, Calif., pushed the Redmond, Wash., software giant for as much information as possible on Titanium, the code name for the next version of Microsoft Exchange Server that's slated to ship next year.

Borland execs outline Starbase plans

The addition of Starbase will add SCM functionality to Borland's development tool offerings and will help to extend the firm's coverage of the application development life cycle.

Wi-Fi 802.11a testing plan finally set

The Wi-Fi Alliance (formerly known as WECA) discloses its plans for the long-awaited certification testing process of 802.11a products for Wi-Fi interoperability.

Telelogic promotes UML 2.0-savvy products

Although UML 2.0 is still on the drawing board, some players are ready to launch software that helps designers to work to the upcoming standard.

AdventNet pursues more manageable Java

AdventNet Inc. seeks to further the cause of Java Management Extensions by releasing a software framework that allows developers to better customize the management of their apps.

Web services vulnerable to namespaces

Namespaces are an Achilles' heel that leaves Web services vulnerable to hackers, says Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO at security software provider KaVaDo Inc.