Application Development Trends' News


Centric CRM Releases Suite, Becomes 'Concursive'

Company adds Web authoring, content management and collaboration technologies to customer relationship management solution.

LinkedIn API To Bring 'Some' Partners Into Social Net Fold

LinkedIn, the business-centric social networking site, this week talked more about opening up its "platform" to select partners

IBM alphaWorks Adds Two Web Services

The free offerings include a mashup maker for Ruby on Rails developers and a social networking content-sharing tool.

No Surprises in Last Patch Tuesday for 2007

As expected, the last Patch Tuesday offers fixes for seven vulnerabilities -- three of them critical -- and possibly sets the tone for 2008 as the "year of the Vista Patch."

Former Microsoft Program Manager Accused of Stealing +$1M

Case involves charges for domain name purchases.

Dev Teams Hobbled by Poor Metrics, Study Suggests

A Borland-sponsored report indicates that managers need a more rigorous way of estimating business value in software development projects.

Former Microsoft Program Manager Accused of Stealing +$1M

Carolyn M. Gudmundson, a former Microsoft program manager for MSDN, faces arraignment this week on 18 felony counts of wire and mail fraud in the U.S. District Court of Washington, Western District of Washington, Seattle.

Microsoft Posts Office Live Workspace Beta

Redmond rolled out its next entry in its "Software Plus Services" offerings.

Borland To Add Business Intelligence to ALM Solutions

Company plans to offer solutions with business intelligence capabilities by the middle of next year.

Red Hat Bundles Tooling and Runtime in New JBoss IDE

JBoss Developer Studio provides more open source options for enterprise application developers.

Microsoft Releases ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

The community technology preview will include an option to use a model view controller, which may help some developers write unit tests and better maintain code.

Microsoft Releases Entity Framework Beta 3

Framework supports .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 RTM versions.

Parallels Adds Full Mac OS X 10.5 Support

New virtualization solution is designed to run Windows on Intel-based Mac systems.

Seven Fixes for Final Patch Tuesday of 2007

Patches mainly affect Windows servers and desktops.

Microsoft PDC Is Back On

Conference for developers set for late October 2008 in Los Angeles.

Microsoft, Oracle Diverge on Outside VM Support

Oracle closes ranks, while Microsoft opens up.

Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 Hit RC Milestone

Both products expected to RTM early next year.

DataDirect Issues 3.1 Versions of XML Products

Upgrades include support for HL7 standard and MySQL Server.

New Exploit Targets Internet Explorer

Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 also at risk.

Sun Releases Virtualization Management Tool Under GPLv3

Company adopts open source strategy with its new xVM Ops Center solution.