Application Development Trends' News


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).

Apache releases Geronimo 1.0 Java server

The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache Geronimo 1.0, its Java app server.

ClearNova AJAX platform released as open source

ClearNova is releasing ThinkCAP JX, a visual dev environment for building rich Internet apps with AJAX, as open source.

Mendocino tightens Office with SAP

Microsoft and SAP recently hosted a technology preview of Mendocino, an initiative to more tightly couple Microsoft's Office productivity suite with SAP's application stack.

Business Objects dips into the MySQL well

Business Objects recently expanded its partnership with open-source database vendor MySQL by notching a new OEM referral agreement.

Flashline announces best practices for service-oriented architecture

SOA software provider Flashline is offering consulting services to help companies better govern SOA and manage Web services.

Wanted: app dev skills

According to management consultancy Foote Partners, average compensation for certified and uncertified programmers is on the rise—and there’s a chance that the best is still to come, as enterprise CIOs shift their focus from compliance requirements back to innovation.