Adobe Systems is using a tiered licensing strategy to get enterprise developers started on Flex 2 development of rich Internet apps.
Designed specifically for enterprise Web 2.0 app dev, ActiveGrid Studio 2.0 hit the market this week, bringing Web 2.0 LAMP technology to Java servers like Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM Websphere, Sun Java System Application Server and JBOSS.
The Eclipse Foundation is making history this week with the Callisto Simultaneous Release initiative, which coordinates 10 Eclipse project upgrades, including BI and reporting tools, a modeling framework, a Web tools platform, test and performance tools, integrated development environments, and the latest version of the Eclipse tooling framework.
When IBM announced its SOA Business Catalog, it took pains to highlight a SOA-friendly kit to help developers integrate PHP application front-ends with WebSphere, but the reality is that customers can and will tap the kit in a huge variety of different scenarios.
Appistry’s New Workload Management offers features it says bring real-time capabilities to grid computing though the company’s Enterprise Application Fabric. The additions enhance apps for three workload management policies and virtualize commodity hardware into a single system.
This week Platform Computing released a new software grid tool, Symphony 3, which virtualizes compute-intensive app services across varied IT resources to create a shared, scaleable and fault-tolerant system. And new features to Symphony’s modular grid structure is said to speed up the app dev process.
Creating more secure apps is a laborious process, as is justifying the related expenditures to senior management. To learn how companies can better facilitate such processes, we talk to Dr. Herbert H. Thompson, the chief security strategist of Wilmington, Mass.-based Security Innovation Inc., an application security services provider.
Your goal shouldn’t be to build an SOA, but to better the business in some way. Gartner analysts spell out where to begin the process.
IBM wants to make it easier for PHP developers to integrate their apps into a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and it's giving them the tools to do it—free. The soon-to-be-released PHP Integration Kit for WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition is designed to move PHP into the heart of IBM's core SOA infrastructure.
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.