Application Development Trends' News


Miko Says: 'Make SOA Real'

The Software AG exec added that companies can stay competitive if they adopt service-oriented architectures.

Unified Threat Management Platform Expands Mail Security

Check Point enhanced e-mail protections in latest security solution.

MXLogic Expects Spam Volumes to Jump for the Holidays

New delivery methods, malware payloads drive surge in spam.

OASIS Ramps Up SDO Efforts for SOAs

The standards group formed a technical committee to foster the Service Data Objects specification, an approach for handling data in service-oriented architectures.

Red Hat and Platform Computing Team on Grid Solution

Agreemeent marks effort to provide high-performance computing solutions at a lower cost.

Virtualization Key at Oracle OpenWorld

Plans for Linux, Fusion and 11g were also part of the announcements at recent Oracle user group meeting.

Former Lotus Exec Now Hatching Ideas for Microsoft

Reed Sturtevant reunited with Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect.

Vista Still Getting Mixed Reviews

Corporations are beginning to warm up, though.

Nortel Offers SOA-Enabled Enterprise Communications

The company's first partner is IBM in a strategy to simplify application development for business communications.

Sun's CEO Unveils Virtualization Solution

Schwartz describes virtualization management platform at Oracle OpenWorld event.

Security Experts Alarmed by Exposed Database Servers

Number of unprotected SQL servers continues to rise.

Carnegie Mellon To Engage Yahoo! Open Source Supercomputing Project

Project will use Apache Hadoop-based supercomputer for data-intensive research.

Two Hot-Fixes for Patch Tuesday

Microsoft also re-released an older patch and plans to roll out nonsecurity fixes.

Nonsecurity Vista Updates Released

Microsoft added three updates to various components in its Patch Tuesday release.

Microsoft Releases Beta of High-Performance Computing Server

Replaces Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.

Microsoft Details Windows Server 2008 Versions, Pricing

Eight versions of new server coming.

IBM To Acquire Cognos for $5 Billion

IBM’s bid marks the third acquisition this year of a prominent BI and PM pure-play vendor.

U.S. Government Joins Microsoft Against States

DOJ says consent decree should expire as planned.

Red Hat and Sun Ink Open Source Java Deal

The collaboration will help Red Hat create a Java development kit and runtime for its Linux products.