Application Development Trends' News


Keynote frees service to crawl enterprise Web sites

Keynote Systems released yesterday the latest version of its WebIntegrity service, which scans areas of a Web site not previously accessible through software solutions, according to the company.

WebEx lets loose on-demand system management services

On Monday, WebEx set out after the $6-billion-in-2005 worldwide system management software business with a new on-demand solution.

Actuate antes up for BI performance management play

Last week, Actuate made its second BI performance management-related move in 12 months, nabbing performancesoft, a provider of corporate performance management products and services, in an all-cash transaction valued at $16.5 million.

New study analyzes Sarbanes-Oxley risks associated with Linux

Many companies using Linux for embedded applications may be unwittingly violating the Linux license and even breaking federal securities laws.

zSeries: App-specific processing engines ahead?

This year could bring relief for mainframe organizations struggling to justify the cost of running native COBOL or Assembly applications in the IBM z/OS.

Centeris rolls out Management Suite for Windows/Linux environments

Startup Centeris is launching Likewise Management Suite 1.0, a Windows-based Linux manager designed to allow users to manage Linux servers in Windows environments.

SANs and clustering have a 2-year upside, survey says

About 3 in 5 enterprise developers expect to increase their reliance on SANs and clustering in the next 2 years, according to Evans Data's recent enterprise development survey.

TRUSTe relies on AppLabs for download program

TRUSTe said this week it has chosen AppLabs Technologies to test the technical operation of software applicants to its Trusted Download beta program launching early this year.

Survey pinpoints critical Exchange email needs

A study by Osterman Research captures key email management challenges facing enterprises in 2006.

OMG announces SOA, MDA and Web Services Workshop

The Object Management Group today announced the program for its Service Oriented Architecture, Model Driven Architecture and Web Services Workshop: Integrating the Enterprise and Beyond.

Oracle jumpstarts SOAs for ISVs

Complementing today's introduction of the Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle launched a series of hands-on workshops designed to provide independent software vendors with tools and skills to help their customers build, deploy and leverage SOAs.

Oracle unveils hot-pluggable SOA suite

Oracle today announced availability of the Oracle SOA Suite, a standards-based set of middleware products used to build, deploy and manage service-oriented architectures.

AberdeenGroup Forecast: CIOs can save billions through SOA

The world's largest companies can save up to $53 billion in IT spending over the next 5 years by implementing service-oriented architectures, according to a new benchmark report from AberdeenGroup.

WMF flaw provokes headaches, workarounds

Companies are racing to patch a WMF vulnerability in all versions of Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

Data storage remains outside the SOA circle

Storage remains the red-headed stepchild of SOA, often because storage is regarded only as a peripheral device connected to an application-hosting platform.

Compliance-crazy climate demands data profiling

Is it Dostoevsky or Dostoyevsky? Tolstoy or Tolstoi? In today's regulatory climate, such distinctions have become a chief concern of IT organizations.

Big Iron pessimism persists

IBM's mainframe unit finished with a strong Q4, a new release of its z/OS and more publicity of its zSeries Academic Initiative, a program to promote Big Iron to the Generation Y set. Why, then, are so many mainframe pros pessimistic about Big Iron's future?

Can data quality elude commoditization?

Now that IBM, Microsoft and Oracle have built (or are in the process of building) robust ETL facilities into their flagship relational databases, the commoditization of ETL is all but certain. At least it would seem so.

Identify idle resources with capacity planning

The best capacity planning/performance management software can help IT leaders identify as much as 50 percent of the IT resources sitting idle in their data centers.

Sun offers up draft of Java SE 6 specs for comments

The early draft of Sun's JSR 270 specification, which governs the content of the Java SE 6 Mustang release, is now available, says Sun's chief Java2 engineer, Mark Reinhold in a recent blog post (http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mreinhold).