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.
It came and went last month with relatively little fanfare, but the release of the latest version of EclipseME, the open-source plugin for the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, was big news for Java developers working in small spaces.
Red Oak Software today introduced an Eclipse-based version of its Legacy Composer to help developers integrate legacy applications across enterprises and eventually integrate these apps into service-oriented architectures.
JavaChina 2005, running this week, is reportedly drawing 10,000 Chinese Java
jocks to Beijing for two days of workshops, breakout sessions, hands-on labs,
and to hear Sun CEO Scott McNealy and Java progenitor James Gosling hold forth
in keynote presentations.
The emergence and rapid proliferation of business rules management systems (BRMS) over the past couple of years is strong evidence that IT/business alignment is a front-burner issue. These software tools, designed to automate business-rules decision making in enterprise IT applications, are fast becoming a must-have.
Is the World Wide Web evolving from a collection of Web sites into a full-fledged computing platform—the so-called Web 2.0? The recent resurgence of interest in Ajax is one for the Web-as-a-platform-model column.
KACE today introduced a new management suite to help mid-size companies oversee all elements on their networks: from desktops and laptops, to servers, switches and routers.
Microsoft recently surprised its developers’ network by releasing a beta version of its Windows file system earlier than expected.
Adobe Systems recently bulked up its LiveCycle server platform, providing a graphical interface for assembling business flows, components-based building blocks for analyzing business processes, and an enhanced process management server.
Big Blue packed in more than 175 new collaboration features and tools, such as a Web services design element, automatic monitoring tools and visual indicators, to the latest release of its Lotus Notes and Domino messaging platform.