Application Development Trends' News


Microsoft ships February CTP of WPF/E

Microsoft released the February CTP of Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E) last week.

SOA Finally Living Up to its Hype, Survey Shows

Development efforts are growing, and they’re finishing on time, according to new Evans Data research.

Oracle's Farrell Talks SOA

ADT’s Kathleen Richards recently spoke with Ted Farrell, chief architect, vice president of tools and middleware at Oracle. Farrell discussed Oracle’s approach to SOA and his views on where the market is headed this year.

VMware Workstation 6 Beta Begins

Virtualization vendor VMware has released the public beta of its Workstation 6.0 product.

One World, Under SOA?

Analyst Ronald Schmelzer of Zapthink writes in a recent report that the concept of service-oriented architecture is rapidly reaching global acceptance.

Microsoft Touts NAP Partners

Microsoft has signed up more than 100 partners who say they will support its Network Access Protection, or NAP, technology for protecting the network from edge devices such as roaming laptops through quarantine and remediation, the company said last Thursday.

New Apps Compatibility Toolkit for Vista

To accompany the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft yesterday announced the final release of a toolkit for assuring that applications will run correctly under the new system.

Borland Ships Gauntlet Automatic Test Tool

Borland Software announced this week it is shipping its Gauntlet automated build and test software, adding another piece to its lifecycle quality management, or LQM, tools offering.

Vista's Rolling Start is Now Official

The five-year run-up to Windows Vista culminated on Tuesday with the official consumer general availability of Vista and Microsoft Office 2007.

Eclipse Launches Data Tools Platform

The Eclipse Foundation has released the first version of its much anticipated Data Tools Platform, a collection of extensible frameworks and tools designed specifically for developing data-centric applications in the Eclipse environment.

Eclipse Foundation and Novell Collaborate on Open Source ID-Services Integration

Two open source identity-services projects are set to announce a jointly produced reference application designed to enable multi-platform, multi-protocol open source identity services.

David vs. Goliath: Big Blue’s Composite Challenge

Is EII stalwart Composite Software IBM’s biggest competitive threat?

ASP. NET AJAX Goes Golden

Microsoft announced Tuesday that it is shipping version 1 of its ASP.NET AJAX developers' tools, previously codenamed "Atlas."

Vista Service Pack 1 This Year?

Microsoft hasn’t quite gotten Windows Vista out the door but it is already working on the first service pack for the new system. But if you’re thinking you’d like to be on the list for testing it, that may be difficult.

Microsoft Hires WebSphere Architect

Microsoft disclosed it has hired a key architect away from IBM.

Zend Releases Windows Compatible Zend Core Beta

Zend Technologies has released the first public beta of Zend Core 2.0, the second generation of the company's distribution of PHP 5. This version is the first from the company to implement new Windows Server compatibility features that Zend and Microsoft announced in late October.

NASA Turning to UML Modeling Tools from IBM for New Space Telescope

Software developers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are now using UML modeling tools from IBM to develop the systems that will operate the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, IBM disclosed on Friday.

Composite Applications Used to Solve Integration Problems

Application integration is a major IT headache, according to Aberdeen Group, consuming about 40 percent of the typical IT budget. With business processes spread across multiple IT applications, service-oriented architecture can be an appealing solution to integrating applications.

Salesforce.com Offers Developer Preview of Apex

Salesforce.com released a developer preview version of its Apex Code programming language this week, and announced that it has made its Apex on-demand platform generally available.

Research Points to IT Hiring Surge

CIOs expect to increase their IT staff levels at the fastest rate since 2001.