Open source may be hot in some circles, but for SOA user Furrukh Khan, the convenience of a commercial platform just makes sense.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
Borland's merger announcement with Segue Software on February 8 included the news that Borland plans to exit the tools business.
Software & Support Media, owner of several technology magazines and related events, is presenting JAX Innovation Awards for “outstanding” European contributions in Java and Eclipse.
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.
Rackspace Managed Hosting and JBoss said on Tuesday they have made an agreement to create Intensive Hosting for Linux-JBoss Edition.
IBM is aligning its software and consulting arms to address an emerging business opportunity. The plan is to help companies-driven by globalization, mergers and acquisitions, and regulatory compliance-to master their growing data and information management issues.
Software AG has introduced next-gen versions of its Adabas transactional database and Natural development platform.
Microsoft has announced the lineup of its 2007 Microsoft Office system products, previously code-named Office “12.” They include new and improved suites, apps, servers and services. General availability is expected by the end of year.
SAND Technology has upgraded its data archiving and analytics technology, repackaged it and gained certification for SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence.
webMethods has taken the wraps off webMethods Access, a new component of webMethods Fabric, which is designed to give enterprises a framework for the rapid assembly of new processes from existing apps and Web services.
Altova said earlier this week that it has come up with a new approach to accelerating the creation of reliable Web services.
According to Gartner, worldwide BI software license revenues should reach $2.5 billion this year-a 6-percent increase from 2005.
rPath is rolling out its rBuilder platform for building Linux software appliances.