Application Development Trends' News


Openbravo Seeks Partners on Open Source ERP

Spanish company launches program to build international partner base.

SOA Trends Indicated in IBM Survey

An IBM tradeshow poll found signs that businesses are beginning to ramp up their service-oriented architecture efforts.

Windows Vista SP1 Gets Fast-Tracked

The ship date for Microsoft's OS upgrade has moved to November.

Report: Software Assurance Rankles Customers

Microsoft's Software Assurance subscribers complain of high costs, low value.

Uniloc Releases Improved Copy Protection Solution

A new throttling capability helps publishers achieve greater control over piracy and software licensing.

Microsoft Rejects Latest Open Source License

GPLv3 causes rift between Microsoft, Novell.

OpenLogic Beefs Up Open Source Offerings

Company aims to provide technical support, documentation and indemnification for corporate users of open source software.

Three Critical Patches on Tap for Tuesday

Microsoft plans to publish six security bulletins next Tuesday, with three critical patches.

Microsoft Releases New CTP for ADO.NET Entity Framework

Release features changes to Object Services, Query and the Entity Data Model Wizard in Visual Studio.

W3C Releases Web Services Protocol

The new WSDL 2.0 protocol adds standardization and better interoperability for Web services and service-oriented architectures.

Google Goes Back to Court Over Vista Desktop Search

The search giant disagrees with judge that it's not part of the case.

Tibco Rolls Out New BPM Solution

Company enhanced its business process management solution for a service-oriented architecture.

Windows Plans on the Wane for Developers

A survey found a decline in the number of North American developers who say they are targeting Windows.

iPhone Used in Hacker Exploit

Scam involves getting users to click on a link for a new iPhone.

BPM: Is It SOA's Reason for Being?

A service-oriented architecture makes the business case by enabling something else, and that something could be business process management.

Business Process Management: SOA's Reason for Being?

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is supposed to bring flexibility to IT resources and lower costs by letting IT personnel reuse software components instead of coding from scratch. However, some experts have suggested that reuse -- the principal justification in most cost-benefit analyses for SOA -- might amount to just 10 percent.

Vista Ultimate Customers Await Their 'Extras'

Microsoft apologizes for the delay.

Massachusetts Considering Microsoft's New Document Format

Open XML acceptance would open door to Office documents.

Layer 7 Virtualizes SOA Security Solution

The company's XML firewall product gets an added distribution boost via virtualization.

Hacker Defaces Microsoft U.K. Web Page

A SQL injection attack is the likely culprit.