Microsoft announced the beta availability of its three MS Office Live services. Previewed last fall, Office Live combines the power of software and services for small companies that want a presence online.
BI vendors say there's been little demand for versions of their software designed to run on Linux or other open-source operating systems. That could change this year, says Mark Madsen, a consultant, who notes there are quite a few open-source BI projects of note.
Yesterday, Sun Microsystems released its beta Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6).
Given Borland's announcement of its intent to exit the development tools business, REAL Software announced that Borland Delphi users can receive a free license for REALbasic 2006 for Windows Standard Edition through February 28, 2006.
nVision Software released yesterday an enterprise continuous-availability app called AppVision-CA.
BearingPoint announced an agreement with Google to offer enterprise search solutions.
HP has signed a new open-source bundling license agreement with Novell to offer HP customers a bundled Linux solution based on Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and that is certified to run on HP's ProLiant servers and BladeSystem technologies.
Sun Microsystems announced a new suite of infrastructure software, within the Sun Java Enterprise System, designed to help enterprises address the most challenging business integration and Web 2.0 development projects.
Rally Software Development announced the availability of Rally Agile Team and Rally Agile Pro, two editions designed to give software development teams the visibility and collaboration needed to deliver high-value software in short, rapid iterations.
Software AG announced a new service-oriented development environment for its Natural app dev platform as the first new product under its Natural 2006 product line.
An Osterman Research survey of email management practices at 116 companies-averaging 9,400 mailboxes each-found that many orgs still face legal and compliance risks, as IT managers battle a variety of management problems.
Last week, Information Builders (IBI) announced iWay SOA Middleware, an SOA-ready bundling of several iWay components.
The application development space has been hard hit by outsourcing, but there's been a recovery of sorts over the last 12 months.
Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community said yesterday that NetBeans IDE is available for download.
Unify has released Unify NXJ Composer, designed to give Lotus Notes developers the ability to build Lotus Notes-like applications in J2EE without having to code by hand.
JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 5.1, the latest version of its Java IDE.
Tibco Software says it has integrated its BPM suite with its business integration products, enabling its customers to layer BPM on top of an SOA.
Search-engine marketing firm Reprise Media released their second-annual Super Bowl Search Marketing ScoreCard.
Is CAN-SPAM working to unclog enterprise in-boxes?
The world's largest companies can save up to $53 billion in IT spending over the next 5 years by implementing SOAs, according to a new report from AberdeenGroup.