StreamBase Systems has found a unique way to promote its complex event processing software. The company will host weekly puzzle-solving contests for programmers on a newly launched Web site, "The Quest for the Da Vinci Coder," providing programmers, developers, and business people with the opportunity to test-drive an enterprise-class complex event processing platform through a stimulating competition.
SOA Software’s ESB Federation solution, launched this week, enables unrelated ESB platforms to deploy centrally-defined policies and interoperate in a reliable, secure and high-performing messaging environment, according to the company.
Service-oriented architecture has made great strides since its inception, but still has a way to go before its benefits can be fully realized. Experts at Gartner’s Application Integration & Web Services Summit 2006, which began Monday, discuss SOA’s stumbling blocks.
Janco Associates, a consulting practice in Park City, Utah, has found demand for selected positions within the IT function is high based on the results of its mid-year 2006 salary survey. The compensation survey is based on Internet responses from businesses in the U.S. and Canada.
Spyware is the fastest-growing threat to enterprises, increasing more rapidly than Trojans, viruses and other risks. And experts believe spyware will stick around.
IBM’s 5-year development of the DB2 9 data server may offer technology that was worth the wait.
Protegrity touts Defiance Security Software, Suite 4.1, as the most comprehensive security software available to date, enabling users to implement an all-encompassing method of data protection and business apps.
The latest version of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distro, launched on June 1, was designed specifically with large organizations in mind, says the open-source project's founder.
Reducing costs and improving business continuity and disaster recovery are the top drivers for server optimization, according to a recent CDW poll.
An Evans Data Corp. dev survey released this week revealed that Asian developers are implementing Java EE 5 at a rapid rate. But results also show the continued strength of .NET apps, sparking a competitive market in the region.
Compuware’s Vantage now offers full-time monitoring and root cause analysis for .NET apps, rounding out the company’s Web services solution by enabling end-to-end, transaction-level support for hybrid .NET and Java apps.
JBoss says it has released for general availability, JBoss Seam 1.0, a new framework for Web 2.0 apps that integrates AJAX, JavaServer Faces, Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Java portlets, BPM and workflow.
Akamai recently announced the availability of its Dynamic Site Solutions, a suite designed to accelerate B2C sites that integrate AJAX and other Web 2.0 technologies. The company claims its customers will see a five-times increase in Web performance and not have to add hardware.
Google's steady march into the applications business has serious long-term implications for developers and IT managers on the way software will be delivered in the not-to-distant future.
This summer AOL plans to add two tools to its repertoire to provide users with firewall, antivirus and antispyware security—tools that will likely rival similar products from Symantec, McAfee and Microsoft.
Ounce 4.0—built on the company’s source code analysis engine and security knowledgebase—marks the industry’s only enterprise-level architecture for software security assurance.
A new version of Mainsoft’s Visual MainWin for J2EE, Portal Edition provides end users with the ability to intermingle ASP.NET and Java apps within Web portals.
The latest version of Altova’s XML tools suite adds features such as CSS support in StyleVision, hyperlinked error messaging in XMLSpy, and Visual Studio and Eclipse integration for MapForce.
The IT security landscape is about to be hit with a potentially devastating seismic shift: the convergence of phishing e-mails and spyware that could take the bad guys to a whole new level.
SOA Software and Parasoft are partnering to offer an integrated governance and testing suite for service-oriented architectures that will allow end users to combine Web services management and error refactoring for SOA and Web service-based apps.