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.
Borland Software released this week an upgrade to JBuilder, Java integrated development environment, Borland JBuilder 2006 includes new capabilities designed to help software teams more effectively collaborate in real time, even across geographic boundaries, with new peer-to-peer developer collaboration features and integrated application lifecycle support for requirements management, source code management and unit testing.
The result of the partnership between LogicLibrary and TopCoder reached earlier this year is that TopCoder’s components for Java and .NET are now stored in Logidex, LogicLibrary's collaborative SDA management solution.
Three airlines have bought into FACE (Future Airline Core Environment), a passenger and reservation platform from Lufthansa Systems, a systems integrator and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group.
If the Labor Day weekend left you feeling more pooped than usual, there's a good reason: A majority of adults, according to a new survey, say they are working longer hours and harder but have little to show for it. The findings of the "Working in America: The Disgruntled Workforce" survey, conducted by Harris Interactive and sponsored by Kronos, indicate more than one-quarter of employed adults are dissatisfied with their current employer.
Hitachi is touting a new tech to protect hard drives that it calls ESP, short for Extra Sensory Protection, that it claims will be as essential for devices with hard drives as airbags are for cars.
Although it claims it is not a security vulnerability, Microsoft has released another of its frequent security advisories, this time to alert users to a flaw in Windows Firewall that would prevent IT administrators from seeing open ports on XP and Server 2003 servers.