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.
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 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 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.
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.
IBM and Avaya today announced an agreement to integrate Avaya audio-based communication into IBM's enterprise collaboration products.
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.
U3 is touting its computing platform for USB smart drives which is set to launch in September with the introduction of U3 smart drives and U3 smart apps.
Arbor Networks is introducing an anomaly detection and internal intrusion prevention system that traces inappropriate behavior back to users—down to their names.
Software AG recently released its Event Applicator for Adabas, a data-replication publishing tool that pushes changes to other databases and applications in real time.
The shift from per-CPU software licenses to per-user and subscription models is well under way, according to industry analysts, but a new generation of dual-core processors, which has been a driver of this trend, is sparking new concerns about customer compliance with older licenses.
New features were recently added to Sleep, an embeddable scripting language for Java applications. Developers use Sleep to design domain-specific languages for their applications.
IBM is participating on a limited basis in Project Harmony, the Apache Software Foundation's effort to create a compatible, independent implementation of Java Standard Edition 5 under the Apache License.
Seapine Software has released a new version of Surround SCM, a software change management solution. Version 4.0 has been upgraded with features such as WebDAV and Unicode support, improved branch management and enhanced reports.
It’s not going to come as a surprise to most IT execs, but according to Book of Numbers research from The Hackett Group, enterprises can reduce the cost of HR by reducing the complexity of key HR processes, programs and technology.
Interwoven, an electronic content management solutions provider, says it has expanded its relationship with Sun Microsystems under which Sun will resell the Interwoven ECM platform.