Application Development Trends' News


Sonic takes action

Sonic Software today announced the availability of Actional 6.0, the latest release of its service-oriented architecture platform.

Business gets across to IT

Software AG today unveiled crossvision, a comprehensive approach to synchronizing business with IT.

Microsoft's Windows Live Expo opens for beta testing

Yesterday, Microsoft released a beta version of Windows Live Expo, which the company says expands the traditional classified ad concept by providing social networking and community features through a trustworthy, convenient and free online service.

Business Objects goes deep

Business Objects either threw down a gauntlet to its competitors or manufactured a heck of a controversy. That seems to be the takeaway from the company's ~$70 million acquisition of data quality specialist Firstlogic.

DataFlux offers best practices bundle for customer data

DataFlux execs bill the company's first branded CDI deliverable as a software- and best practices-based bundle designed to help companies get their own CDI practices up and running.

SQL Server 2005 takes on BI pure plays

Many would-be SQL Server 2005 adopters are staying put on SQL Server 2000, now 3 months after the upgrade's release.

Rx for dashboard-driven analysis

Last month, business intelligence start-up AppFusion announced Advanced Modeling, the newest deliverable for its BI & Collaboration platform.

BEA acquires Fuego

In a move squarely aimed at continued market leadership in the explosive SOA software market, BEA Systems said yesterday that it has acquired Fuego, a leader in the business process management software.

For some, commercial is still cool

Open source may be hot in some circles, but for SOA user Furrukh Khan, the convenience of a commercial platform just makes sense.

Commitment to train IT pros is low

Mainframers seem to get all worked up over the issue of training. It's not that they're opposed, on the whole, to training--far from it.

Shortage of talent impedes enterprise RFID deployment

Deployment of radio frequency identification technology continues to be hampered by a shortage of individuals skilled in the technology, according to a new survey by the Computing Technology Industry Association.

EMC announces e-Discovery solution

EMC introduced yesterday its EMC eDiscovery Solution, an integrated offering of EMC information and content management software, networked storage and professional services designed to help customers better manage the legal discovery process.

Splunk Touts Troubleshooting Rx

Splunk markets a search and analysis tool that parses log and configuration files from hardware, operating systems, apps, databases, message queues and even enterprise service buses to help IT organizations troubleshoot performance and reliability problems.

Aldon offers up DB change management

Aldon says it has added database change management capability to its Application Lifecycle Management, which adds levels of process management, integrity and predictability to database development.

Oracle spends a busy fortnight making deals

It has been a busy 2 weeks for Oracle, which completed its acquisition of Siebel, announced Release 3 of its Application Server 10g and JDeveloper 10g tools, announced two new acquisitions and disclosed plans to divest itself of Siebel's OnTarget business unit, a sales training and methodology consultancy.

All-in-one business intelligence platforms may not be so smart

The business intelligence powers that be-platform players such as Business Objects, Cognos, SAS and others-are all agog over the all-in-one platform. And they'd like you to be just as enthusiastic, too.

Tool talk with Borland

Borland's merger announcement with Segue Software on February 8 included the news that Borland plans to exit the tools business.

European contest calls for Java and Eclipse innovations

Software & Support Media, owner of several technology magazines and related events, is presenting JAX Innovation Awards for “outstanding” European contributions in Java and Eclipse.

Tapestry promoted to Apache top level

Howard Lewis Shipp, developer of Jakarta Tapestry and Jakarta HiveMind, writes in his Tapestry and HiveMind blog [http://howardlewisship.com/blog/2006/02/tapestry-promoted-to-apache-top-level.html] this week that the Apache Board unanimously voted to promote the Tapestry project to the top level.

Collaboration on managed hosting for Linux on J2EE

Rackspace Managed Hosting and JBoss said on Tuesday they have made an agreement to create Intensive Hosting for Linux-JBoss Edition.