Application Development Trends' News


Sybase Has 'Record' Year

DBMS company gets revenue boost, but still owns just a small percentage of the market.

Excel Flaw Highlights Need for Better App Security

Experts believe the rising number of exploits targeting Excel gives hackers incentives to continually exploit applications -- rather than operating systems -- for flaws.

Microsoft Aims To Boost Security With New APIs for Developers

In a blog post today, Microsoft announced new APIs that will make security settings easier for developers, particularly for those writing solutions that will run on Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3.

Campus Security: 13 Data Breaches Reported So Far This Month

Identity theft is seen as a possibility as data go missing.

Office 2003 SP3 To Be Pushed Out in Feb.

Microsoft Update will automatically change settings next month for Office 2003.

Microsoft Releases VS 2008 Web Deployment Projects RTW

The Visual Studio 2008 add-on has new features for creating IIS applications.

Joyent's Hosted Apps Back Up, Going Open Source

Hosted app provider describes plans after server failure.

WSO2 Unveils Open Source Mashup Server

The company also rolled out a beta of a new hosted mashup service.

EnterpriseDB Jumps Into the Cloud

Beta of hosted relational database management system is planned to start in March.

Web 2.0 Threats Loom Large for IT

Social networking and consumer apps may play havoc with enterprise IT security.

Microsoft Launches New 'Code Gallery' for Developers

Microsoft recently unveiled a new site for developers to download and share Microsoft-related code samples.

VMLogix Supports Citrix XenServer

Combined technologies will support server consolidation and build testing for developers.

IBM and Fair Isaac Tie the SOA Knot

The two companies are integrating their service-oriented architecture and decision management solutions.

HP Rolls Out SOA Governance Model

New products and services aim to help organizations deal with complexities of service-oriented architectures.

Nokia To Acquire Trolltech

The deal opens the way for Trolltech's cross-platform Qt app framework to get a wider foothold across desktop and mobile devices.

Microsoft Earnings Show Strong Enterprise Software Business

The 2Q report indicated record revenues of $16.4 billion.

Zimbra Selects Webtide's Dynamic Web Solution

Company added push server technology to support its dynamic Web-based e-mail and collaboration software.

MuleSource Kicks Into SOA Governance

An open source governance solution for service-oriented architectures was released by the company, along with other SOA products.

Adobe Throttles Up Flash Media Server

Company offers two upgrade options to support streaming media.

Microsoft: SQL Server 2008 Will Be Late

Timeline will slip to third quarter, according to blogger.