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Open Source is Serious Business for Exadel Customers

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 Relies on Java to Make XML Easier to Use

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.

iBreakthrough Subscribes to Online Learning

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.

LinuxWorld Conference Draws Penguin Lovers to SF

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 Ups the Ante for Web Tools

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 8.

Mercury Interactive Updates BPT Software

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.

Library Helps Manage Software Assets

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.

COBOL-to-Java Translation Tool Eliminates Code Rewriting

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 Unveils SourcePro Upgrade

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.

Is Open-Source Software Business Ready?

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.

Developers Get Windows Vista Beta 1

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.

Answers Anywhere Advances Intelligent UI

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 Aims to Make Services a Liquid Asset

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 Adds More Messaging Punch to ESB

Cape Clear Software recently updated its enterprise service bus, bolstering its messaging support and adding new features to its orchestration engine.

Soft Dev Survey Says People, Not Tools, Matter Most

The best-in-class software development projects are 3.37 times faster to market and 7.48 times cheaper than the worst, according to a new study of "the Best and Worst in Class" projects from Quantitative Software Management.

Funk Software Adds Traction to Steel-Belted Radius with Linux

Funk Software yesterday announced its Steel-Belted Radius, a RADIUS/AAA server that centrally manages network access, will now run SuSE Enterprise Server 9 and Red Hat (Enterprise and Advanced Server 3) versions of Linux.

IBM Patterns for SOA

IBM is billing the software development patterns just published on its developerWorks Web site as the first designed to assist in the creation of service-oriented architectures.

SOA Software’s “Service Virtualization”

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) takes the discrete business functions in enterprise applications and organizes them into interoperable services—which is one of the most effective ways to share and consume information with partners. But managing and exposing these services creates some big security risks; keeping the bad guys from connecting to those services is tricky.

A Click and a Call

IBM and Avaya today announced an agreement to integrate Avaya audio-based communication into IBM's enterprise collaboration products.

Roman Conquers Backlog with Oracle's HTML DB

About two-and-a-half years ago, Tony Jedlinski, VP of administration and warehouse operations at Roman, found himself with an application maintenance backlog he was sure he'd never catch up. Roman had decided 18 years earlier to build its own applications—a logical choice for one of the country's largest privately owned and operated giftware distributors, but one that imposed serious productivity demands on its developers.