Actuate saw a bona fide opportunity last year when it came on board the open-source Eclipse Foundation as a strategic developer. J2EE programmers had long bemoaned the absence of a native Java reporting solution for Eclipse, the world's most popular Java integrated development environment, and Actuate promised to give them just that, with the Business Intelligence Reporting Tool. It now turns out that Actuate's opportunity isn't unique.
JetBrains says it has released JetBrains TMate 2.0, a combination Web app and plug-in for the company's Java IDE. That product, IntelliJ IDEA, provides advanced repository management capabilities for users of CVS or Subversion version control systems from a Web browser or from within IntelliJ IDEA. New in JetBrains TMate 2.0 are Subversion features including Local Changesets and Pending Updates.
On Tuesday, Software AG said its Composite Application Integrator (CAI), a design and runtime environment for combining Web services into rich composite Internet apps, now supports Google maps. The company claims CAI is the first product based on AJAX to include a Google maps control.
One thing that was not immediately evident in the noise about the recent launch of Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 was the fact that the next-gen database isn't generally available yet.
The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) said on Monday it has incorporated four user groups formerly associated with PeopleSoft into OAUG as special interest groups.
When it comes to troubleshooting application performance problems, most organizations are still stuck in reactive mode.
At the recent TDWI show in Orlando, data quality specialists Similarity Systems and Firstlogic touted new data profiling and data quality offerings. Although that might not sound like earth-shattering news, both vendors have a lot more riding on these products than meets the eye.
At a keynote speech to Supercomputing 2005, Microsoft’s Bill Gates said Microsoft has released the beta 2 version of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, the company’s first high-performance computing OS, and is funding joint research projects at 10 academic centers worldwide.
The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute and GM announced on Tuesday a collaboration to create a business process improvement model for companies looking to source information technology capabilities from third-party suppliers.
IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony have chipped in to create Open Invention
Network (OIN), a company that acquires patents and offers them royalty-free
to promote Linux.
Microsoft has released the latest version of its Web Services Enhancements technology. WSE 3.0 is an add-on to the company's newly launched Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0. It allows developers to write and implement Web Services Interoperability Organization's WS* protocols (WS-Security, WS-Routing, WS-Attachments etc.) by adding a few lines of code to their apps.
Attendees at Borland Software's 16th annual developer conference, held last week in San Francisco, got a peek at the company's new CEO, Tod Nielsen. They also got a look at a company in a transition that transcends C-level changes.
Corporate tech departments are driving their organizations to become service-oriented enterprises, according to the results of a survey of more than 300 participants attending last week’s Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 launch.
TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, launched on Monday, TippingPoint X505, an integrated security platform built on intrusion prevention system technology. IPS combines a stateful inspection firewall, IPSec VPN, bandwidth management, Web content filtering and dynamic routing.
Ivar Jacobson Consulting said on Monday that it has joined Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team System through the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner program.
BrainStorm Group has launched The SOA Institute and Web site, which it says will make it possible for IT pros to share with each other what they know about service-oriented architecture. Membership in the organization is complimentary for individuals.
HP announced last week a suite of services designed to help customers modernize their legacy IT applications as they shift to infrastructures based on Web services and SOAs.
Google on Monday said its hosted Web analytics service, Google Analytics, is now free.
Industrial buyers seeking everything from nuts and bolts to sophisticated manufacturing equipment are turning to the Internet nearly twice as often as offline information sources, according to a study of industrial buying and selling behaviors. However, many industrial suppliers do not ensure potential customers can find their sites nor provide the kind of information buyers are seeking, the research indicates.
The upgrade of Informatica’s flagship data integration platform, PowerCenter 8, previously code-named Zeus and due at the end of the year, is “the most innovative release in the company's history,” the company says. It’s also a sign that the company’s strategic shift from data warehousing into the burgeoning data-integration market is on track.