At a LinuxWorld press conference yesterday, Red Hat provided an update on the Fedora Foundation, RH’s effort to share control of Fedora’s future development with the open-source community. RH is creating the Fedora Foundation with the intent of moving Fedora project development work and copyright ownership of contributed code to the foundation, says Mark Webbink, deputy general counsel at Red Hat.
IBM has unveiled a new packaged set of software, hardware and services designed
to provide an entry-level system for companies getting into grid computing.
Owing to a variety of factors, enterprises will increasingly give up their homegrown ETL solutions in favor of more sophisticated commercial ETL packages.
Hewlett-Packard’s VP and general manager of the NonStop Enterprise Division, Martin Fink, challenged IBM and Sun Microsystems to drop their open-source licensing schemes and adopt the GNU General Public License during his keynote speech at the LinuxWorld 2005 conference in San Francisco.
IBM today unveiled WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 6.0, which the company says delivers greater business value through effective use of an existing IT infrastructure, support for mixed workload and server types, support for new advanced data caching, and improvements in manageability and monitoring.
The Apache Derby development community has released Apache Derby 10.1.1.0. Derby graduated from the incubator in July and is now a subproject of the Apache DB project.
Here's a statistic worthy of a doubletake: According to Exadel, every Fortune 1000 firm has downloaded its tools—at least to kick the tires.
Justsystem, one of Japan’s largest software companies, is making its first foray into the U.S. market with an integrated XML development, runtime and authoring environment and two toolkits.
As a corporate trainer, Kevin Greene spent a lot of time on the road—traveling 15,000 miles per month all over North America. So, when he decided to jazz up the company’s classes for about 10,000 customers, he sought a way that didn’t require more traveling.
The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo is underway in San Francisco (running Aug. 8 to Aug. 11). With 11,000 registered attendees, traffic is down slightly from last year (11,400), but exhibitors are up from about 180 to 200, according to event organizers IDG World Expo.
Macromedia follows up on its April acquisition by Adobe with several new products:
Dreamweaver 8, Studio 8, Flash Professional 8, Fireworks 8 and Flash Player
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It is axiomatic to say that testing and QA are the ugly stepchildren of the software development process. Everyone knows code quality is important, but so are features and deadlines. And when it's crunch time, testing and QA get short shrift.
The Logidex library creates and maintains an inventory of these assets and their relationships to each other, the company’s business processes and the technical infrastructure. Collaboration support within Logidex work areas allows developers, architects and business analysts to work together within a common context.
The federal student loan service center Campus Partners, an offshoot of Sallie Mae, wanted to revamp its mainframe systems to make loan data accessible to customers via the Web. With millions of lines of complex mainframe code written in the 1980s, and a staff of experienced COBOL programmers who had worked for the company for many years, Campus Partners faced a challenge.
Rogue Wave Software, a division of Quavadx, recently introduced a new version of its SourcePro C++ software that enables developers to build C++ apps that can be migrated from one platform to another as a company’s business needs change.
Carnegie Mellon West Center for Open Source Investigation, O'Reilly CodeZoo, SpikeSource and Intel have proposed a rating system they say will enable developers and enterprise IT to evaluate the business readiness of open-source software.
Microsoft is delivering Beta 1 of Windows Vista (formerly codenamed Longhorn)
to 10,000 technical beta testers, and making the release available to members
of the Microsoft Developer Network and the Microsoft TechNet program.
Few developments have driven the evolution of the user interface more than the crabgrass-like proliferation of mobile computing devices. So-called multimodal functionality, which allows users to request information by voice and receive answers via SMS, for example, has become a critical feature just a few years after it first appeared.
BEA Systems announced yesterday the general availability of BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 2.0, which it says is a key component of its service infrastructure AquaLogic product family.
Cape Clear Software recently updated its enterprise service bus, bolstering its messaging support and adding new features to its orchestration engine.