Oracle Corp. today released the long-awaited overhaul of its database design and ETL (extraction, transformation and load) tool, Warehouse Builder 10g, Release 2 (formerly code-named "Paris").
Who says you can’t have your data and store it, too? A new solution claims to offer the largest capacity for small and mid-size IT departments, expanding storage by 50 percent and claiming the lowest cost-per-gigabyte on the market.
Rich Internet apps should see a wealth of new takers, according to a study. And Java technologies are helping shape the trend that has developers dabbling with RIA to maximize the performance of Web-based apps.
As Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) take center stage in the race to develop user interfaces for rich Internet applications, some companies have had good results with pure Java.
If you aspire to supervising the build lab for a major software project, with hundreds of computers chugging along and all doing your bidding, Vincent Maraia's <em>The Build Master</em> may be just what you need to get started.
Transitioning from legacy content management systems has never been easy, but developers are singing the praises of a company just beginning to market its solution to North America. And its use of XAML reduces development time.
Exhausted of their egghead stigma, the industry’s first wiki app company found a way to transform traditional wikis into fresh page types. And now the new-look wikis are compatible with Microsoft Office.
Microsoft kicked off the week with two more virtualization moves: The Redmond software maker completed its acquisition of Softricity, a provider of app virtualization and streaming technologies; and disclosed plans to begin working with open-source virtualization vendor XenSource.
Old mainframe databases don’t fade away—they keep right on working. But how many new tricks can you teach an old pre-relational database? Plenty, CA officials say.
The old adage, “there’s nothing to fear but fear itself” is seldom accurate in the IT industry. Obviously, Franklin D. Roosevelt never had to secure a Web site in his lifetime. With the risks in today’s world, one company is taking the “fear” out of Web services with improved app scanning software that puts the developer in the driver’s seat.
Promising speed, new language features and upgrades, Python is just weeks away from releasing the final version of its 2.5 software.
From all accounts Agile software development is making inroads in the enterprise, moving beyond high-tech companies to become part of the arsenal of corporate dev teams in industries like insurance, telecom and financial services.
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Experts have long said that AJAX, used to increase and speed site interactivity, could also be used to amplify attacks against outward facing Web apps—particularly against providers of Software-as-a-Service.
Awaresoft released Aware IM 2.0 Web database management software, which the company says allows solution-focused developers and experienced computer users to create comprehensive Web database applications without programming.
Analysts and industry pundits are paying new attention to the premise of on-demand applications. According to a new paper from consulting and research firm Saugatauk Technology, Software-as-a-Service is at a fundamental “tipping point.”
A slew of new SOA management functions are available through a new version of CentraSite, including a plug-in that lets developers ease into integration within Eclipse-based dev environments.
A 2006 report from Boston-based market researcher Aberdeen Group shows 90 percent of survey respondents say their companies are adopting service-oriented architectures.
The antivirus software selected by more than one-third of companies throughout the United States and Europe was the subject of a serious security flaw earlier this year, leaving its users in the dark. McAfee publicized the flaw and its fix through an apologetic e-mail issued to its customers last week.
Upgrades were released last week for Perforce’s SCM system—a dev tool used to track software management among enterprises. It now supports developers across more than 50 operating systems. Version 2006.1 also boasts enhancements to its server, updates to its user interface and is capable of supporting more IDEs than ever before.