Application Development Trends' News


IBM Funds University Collaboration Studies

Universities get grants to use IBM's Jazz collaboration platform for distributed-team software development.

Microsoft Adds Mobile Device Management to Lineup

New server allows centralized management of mobile devices.

Agile Process Showcased at IT Architect Event

Architects got an earful on the proper way to do agile software development at a recent IASA event.

SAP Adds Eclipse Tool, Joins OSGi

Company contributes memory management tool to open source Eclipse environment.

Microsoft Working Toward Less Complexity With New Kernel

'MinWin' to be at heart of future Windows development.

Windows Auto Update Continues to Aggravate

New controversy swirls around update function.

IBM Grows Its SOA Partner Community

Membership increases to 4,100 partners as IBM beefs up resources for partners.

IT Must Tackle Five Trends, Analyst Group Says

Let innovation happen with Web 2.0 apps and software-as-a-service delivery.

IT Must Tackle 5 Trends, Analyst Group Says

The points of change cited by the research firm include Web 2.0-style apps, SaaS, global-class computing, "consumerization" of IT and open source.

Ballmer Unveils Beta of Facebook Tool

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today unveiled the beta version of Popfly, its Web-dev tool for non-developers.

Ballmer Announces Popfly Beta

Microsoft's CEO demonstrated the new Web development tool at the Web 2.0 Summit, using Popfly to create a mashup for Facebook.

DataDirect Puts the zIIP in SOA Mainframes

DataDirect has upgraded its Shadow mainframe data integration solution.

DataDirect Puts the zIIP in SOA Mainframes

The company's latest data integration solution for mainframes optimizes mission-critical apps using IBM's "System z" specialty engines.

Microsoft Launches Communications Suite

Era of seamless communications to start, says Bill Gates.

Eclipse RAP Integrates Java Tools for RIA Development

Platform lets users build rich Internet applications in Java via the Eclipse development environment.

Distributed Computing Studies Get Google, IBM Support

The two companies are providing material support to universities with resource-intensive computing curricula.

Live From VSLive!: Five Questions With Paul Sheriff on Architecting ASP.NET

Shops need a greater focus on architecture, rather than just coding.

Borland Simplifies Modeling in New ALM App

The company's open source application lifecycle management product now includes a toolkit that supports domain-specific languages.

Are Patches Leading to Exploits?

Hackers may release exploits to coincide with "Patch Tuesday."

Trolltech Integrates Qt Framework with Eclipse

Developers of rich Web apps can now work across C++ and Java environments.