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Macromedia and Mercury Agree on Rich Internet Apps

Macromedia and Mercury Interactive announced on Monday a plan to integrate Mercury’s Quality Center and Performance Center products with Macromedia’s Flex 2 product line.

Software AG Centers on SOA

On Monday, Software AG cut the ribbon to its new North American SOA Competency Center, which it says will help orgs understand how SOAs, within their environment, implement SOA and measure results. The company says it assists businesses reduce the time and cost of implementing SOA.

Gartner: Larger IT Budgets Expected in 2006

U.S. organizations will open their wallets to increase IT spending next year, growing 5.5 percent, according to a preliminary results from a Gartner survey.

Trend Micro Study Reveals End-User Awareness of Spyware is High

Security software maker Trend Micro says the majority of corporate computer users is familiar with the risks of spyware, but half think IT should be doing a better job educating them to deepen their understanding of the threat.

IBM Looking Ahead at IT for Maturing Workers

Healthcare providers and insurance companies won't be the only ones facing challenges brought on by our aging population. Software developers are increasingly called upon to provide applications and systems that take into account age-related disabilities and other physical limitations.

Vendors Join Forces to Push Faster Wi-Fi

Twenty-seven leading manufacturers of wireless LAN equipment this week announced an industry coalition to push the acceptance of a new, faster Wi-Fi standard.

IBM Donates RUP Assets to Open Source Community

Big Blue this week plans to contribute software development blueprints to the Eclipse Foundation to help developers make fewer coding mistakes.

Zend Core for Oracle Goes GA

Oracle and Zend Technologies began working together in May to develop a PHP 5.0 distribution integrated with the Oracle database client library.

Nokia Takes Lead in Eclipse J2ME Project, Announces Eclipse-based Symbian Initiative

Nokia's announcement that it joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and Board member should come as no surprise to anyone watching either the software development tools market or the embedded systems space, says Nasser Iravani, director of the developer support network, Forum Nokia.

Big Blue Announces Java Framework for Data Replication, Synchronization

IBM recently introduced a Java library for developers to create collaborative, mitigation and multi-device applications.

Survey Says SOAs Are a Hit with Enterprises

Just in case you weren’t paying attention: webMethods released on Monday the results of a survey that reveals SOAs and Web services are catching on with global 2000 companies.

Pacific Edge Announces Governance Software for Project Management

Pacific Edge Software recently introduced new IT governance software that allows companies to develop products for project portfolio management.

A Cluster by Any Other Name Is Not a Grid

Have you noticed how lately, when the conversation turns to distributed computing, grid and cluster are used as synonyms? These two words do have different meanings, Donald Becker reminds us.

Compuware Ups Support for Viz Studio ’05 and Eclipse

Compuware said on Monday it will introduce a new version of Compuware DevPartner Studio that will integrate with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 IDE.

Forum Systems Targets SOA, Web Services’ Security

Forum Systems recently introduced its Unified Policy Management application, which creates, manages, deploys and governs service-oriented architecture security policies and Web services.

JBoss Drools over SOA

The popular open-source Java business rules engine known as Drools will soon become part of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System, says Pierre Fricke, JBoss's director of product management.

Oracle Releases Enterprise Supply Chain Products for PeopleSoft

Oracle yesterday released PeopleSoft Enterprise Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) 8.9 and PeopleSoft Enterprise Supply Chain Management (SCM) 8.9.

Quest Automates Operational Management for Java Apps, Portals

Quest Software yesterday introduced software aimed at helping IT teams monitor their production app environments for better problem resolution, performance management and availability management.

Google, Sun Form Multi-Year Partnership

Google and Sun Microsystems joined forces to promote and distribute each other's technologies, the two companies disclosed this week

Mozilla Sets up Developer Center

Mozilla, the Firefox Web browser creator, launched this week its public beta of the Mozilla Developer Center (MDC), aimed at providing developers resources for building Web sites and Web applications for all Web browsers.