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.
IBM on Monday introduced software that enables businesses to find out what their reps are like on the social networks, blogs and other sources on the Web.
Computer Associates International and Nexio Technologies announced on Wednesday a new best practices library dubbed CANEXION that provides ITIL processes and implementation procedures mapped to CA Service Management products.
Managed Objects hopes to capitalize on the management changes at Mercury Interactive with its Lifeline Program, which aims to provide an alternative to Mercury customers who use that company’s solutions for business availability and business service management.
Network Appliance on Wednesday unveiled the Uncompromised Security Initiative,
a program the company claims challenges the status quo of data security and
promises to deliver industry-best solutions to the enterprise.
BEA Systems is beefing up its Java toolbox with a persistence engine from newly acquired SolarMetric. BEA announced the acquisition of the company and its Kodo engine last week.
Disaster recovery planning is on just about every company's to-do list these days. Prompted a few years ago by 9/11, spurred by new regulatory requirements and amped up by images of hurricane-ravaged coastal communities on the 11:00 news, a lot of organizations have implemented disaster planning and assessment projects. But planning for trouble is one thing, says Jim Sangster, director of marketing for Sun Microsystems' Cluster and N1 products, putting those plans into action is another.
Things that worry Java development managers who oversee teams of five or more developers are code quality and the inability to minimize bugs before code is released. That’s the upshot of a survey released this week by Clear Horizons, a technology research company.
A survey on mobile security released on Monday by Good Technology, a handheld computing software and service provider, suggests enterprises are seeking new ways to address handheld device and security management.
In its latest IT management tip, Evergreen Systems, an IT technology and process consulting firm, advises IT departments to take the lead in mapping business audit standards to IT operations.