On December 22, webMethods shipped version 7.0 of its flagship Fabric suite. The 7.0 release followed a year of acquisitions as the company put key technology in place for its BPM/SOA platform.
While Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 are virtually out the door, Microsoft continues its march towards updating its server products to match.
Google is releasing its Java software development framework as open source software under the Apache 2.0 open-source license.
Microsoft released a Service Pack update and an SP beta for its Visual Studio 2005 IDE. The Visual Studio 2005 SP1, and the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista beta both went live on Friday on Microsoft's Visual Studio Developer Center Web site.
Microsoft and HP announced Wednesday a three-year $300 million deal to collaborate in selling hardware, software and services to their joint customers.
Microsoft is shipping Robotics Studio 1.0, a development environment for creating robotic software that runs on a variety of hardware platforms. In addition, the company introduced a third-party partner program featuring Robotics Studio-enabled applications, services and robots from independent software vendors, service providers, hardware component vendors and robot manufacturers.
Microsoft said this week it has begun a private beta for its enterprise voice communications server, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, sending it out to 2,500 IT professionals.
Firefox 2.0 has been out for less than two months but Mozilla.org developers have already released alpha code for the next major version.
Microsoft Corp. today announced a bevy of patches -- seven, in all -- that address vulnerabilities in its Visual Studio IDE and Windows operating environments.
Seapine Software is releasing new versions of its ALM products TestTrack Pro and Surround SCM 5. The company is also launching TestTrack TCM, a new tool for test case planning and tracking that integrates with TestTrack Pro.
Java SE 6 pulls together a host of new features for Web services, dynamic language support, diagnostics, and desktop applications
The Eclipse Foundation today released a new "task-focused" user interface designed to reduce information overload among developers working in integrated development environments.
Microsoft issued an Advance Bulletin today stating it will release six fixes for various flaws next Tuesday as part of its regularly scheduled "Patch Tuesday" update. According to the notice, one of the fixes will be for a "critical" flaw in Visual Studio. The other five will relate to Windows, with the highest rating of at least one of the Windows' patches being critical.
Microsoft is shipping the first CTP of a new business intelligence tool dubbed PerformancePoint server.
Microsoft is releasing several Web designer tools, along with the first CTP of a Windows Presentation Foundation cross-platfrom browser plug-in.
IBM's Rational division is releasing tools and technologies to round out its Rational Software Delivery Platform. In June, the company launched version 7.0 of the platform's team-based products. Today's release is comprised of desktop products aimed at individual developers, architects, and testers.
A recent study found that service-oriented architecture projects are increasingly becoming high-level initiatives, instead of department-level or pilot projects.
A new study suggests SOA efforts aren’t always accompanied by quality testing, leading to dissatisfaction with the results.
Intalio is donating its Tempo project to the Eclipse Foundation. Tempo is the first open-source workflow framework to support IBM and SAP's BPEL4People model. Available under the Eclipse Public License, the framework will become part of the foundation's SOA Tools Platform project.
While Microsoft is busy celebrating the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007, a posse of partners also lined up to announce support for the new products. Unfortunately, many of those third-party announcements are long on promises and short on details, including specifics as to when those new and updated products will actually reach market.