irtualization has gained a lot of mainstream industry traction recently, thanks in part to the success of companies such as VMWare, which nearly single-handedly revived interest in technologies that provide a logical rather than a physical view of computing resources.
AAA Carolinas has about 900 employees across North and South Carolina, serving 1.5 million residents. For years, the company processed all of its customer information through an AS/400-based insurance policy system, manually pushing “a lot of paper” through AAA Carolinas, says Harry Johns, the company’s manager of insurance information technologies.
Oracle president Charles Phillips kicked off the annual Oracle OpenWorld conference, under way this week in San Francisco, with a keynote focused on the convergence of the company's three lines of business—database systems, middleware and applications—which are combined in the company's implementation of a service-oriented architecture called Oracle Fusion Architecture.
Oracle disclosed details of the enhancements planned for the upcoming Oracle Application Server 10g release 3 at this week's Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
ClearNova this week introduced ThinkCAP JX, a rapid application development platform that allows developers to build intuitive Web-based applications.
SRC recently released a set of tools for developers that add business intelligence functionality to the Google mapping application programming interface.
Large-scale service-enablement is a doomed enterprise for one important reason, some codejockeys argue: bureaucratic infighting.
Symantec released yesterday its Internet Security Threat Report, for the first 6 months of the year, in which the company says Internet attackers are more frequently targeting desktops rather than enterprise perimeters.
IBM recently released a beta of an executive portal called IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, which allows executives and other members of an organization to monitor their own goals and objectives, link objectives to others in the company, and explain how one objective relates to an organization’s overall strategy.
Microsoft has upgraded its Software Assurance maintenance offering, with eight new benefits for deployment planning services, training and support.
Sonic Software, AmberPoint, BearingPoint and Systinet this week introduced a model intended to guide businesses that are evaluating service-oriented architecture.
Kareem Yusuf, director of SOA product management with Big Blue, says he understands why developers, more than any other enterprise constituency, are skeptical about SOAs, composite applications and loosely coupled application architectures as a whole. It’s a healthy skepticism, he concedes.
IBM this week announced new and enhanced software to help enterprises respond to their ever-changing processes through service-oriented architecture.
Microsoft this week, at its Professional Developers Conference, released a slew of tools that focus on workflow and custom applications.
Bill Gates put the spotlight on new versions of Microsoft’s Office applications and long-awaited operating system at the company’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week.
If Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich has said it once, he's said it a thousand times (to us, anyway): Eclipse is not just about Java.
Microsoft is counting on its developer base to help it compete with rivals Google and Yahoo in the search space.
To get the broader benefits of service-oriented architecture—reuse, agility and runtime governance—companies need to design their SOAs deliberately.
Larry Ellison finally bagged troubled Siebel Systems for $5.85 billion, but analysts question how Oracle’s latest acquisition fits into its future product strategy.
Sun Microsystems' China strategy continues apace this week at what is being billed as the largest-ever developer conference in that country.