Oracle is set to ship the latest version of its Database 10g software. Oracle 10g Release 2 is a high-quality, robust maintenance release for the company’s installed base, says Andy Mendelsohn, Oracle’s SVP of data server technologies. But, he adds, “we did include a small number of new features that we felt were critical to get out to market, fast.”
The good thing about Web services is that they expose interfaces, streamline connections
and accelerate business processes. The bad thing about Web services is that they
expose interfaces, streamline connections and accelerate business processes.
Microsoft plans to extend its Office Communicator 2005 instant-messaging client to the Web, the company disclosed, with a server-side component dubbed Office Communicator Web Access.
eBay is giving the members of its developer programs access to the source code for various eBay and PayPal tools and sample applications. The code is being released today on the newly launched eBay Community Codebase Web site, which the company created to serve as an online forum for open-source developer collaboration.
Developers are justifiably eager for the forthcoming Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 specification (due with J2EE 5.0), says Pierre Fricke. EJB 3.0 overhauls the Enterprise JavaBean architecture that drives business logic and persistence for J2EE applications, simplifying the programming model to significantly improve developer productivity.
Magic Software is preparing a new version of its eDeveloper app environment for release on Aug. 1, with added features such as capabilities for XML handling in applications, support for Unicode and functions for date-time support.
Some analysts say the AquaLogic data service platform BEA Systems announced last week is the last, best hope of a one-time J2EE market leader.
Sun Microsystems has released an early developer beta of a repository/registry designed to help users locate and reuse Web services. The Sun Service Registry combines an integrated repository for storing the metadata accumulated around Web services with services lifecycle management capabilities.
JBoss Inc. released the latest version of its open-source, Java-based portal product. The new JBoss Portal 2.0 embraces the Java portlet API specification (JSR-168) and provides an extensible portal framework designed to integrate dynamic Web pages and applications within standardized reusable portlets.
Beginning to incorporate a service-oriented architecture into the enterprise sounds great, but managing the associated services, interfaces and metadata is a critical element. SOA management products, such as those for metadata management, are thus becoming more and more important.
Conventional wisdom about software platforms is that the largest companies run IBM and Java technologies, ceding much of the mid- and smaller business market to Microsoft and .NET. But that’s hardly Big Blue’s view of the future.
Service-oriented architectures are facilitating the evolution of traditional siloed, proprietary call/contact centers into standards-based, multi-channel doorways into the enterprise. So says Brian Garr, program director and segment manager for contact center solutions in IBM’s software group.
If you think dealing with burgeoning data volumes inside the enterprise is a challenge, spend a day with the folks on the front line.
Sun Microsystems officially released to open source the "lion's share" of its Solaris operating system source code—approximately five million lines, including the kernel, networking stack, libraries and commands for the Solaris 10 OS.
Capitalizing on two of the hottest IT topics for 2005 according to Gartner–SOA and open-source software–Skyway Software is shipping a version of its SOA platform for the open-source Linux operating system.
Enterprise build management is an industry buzzword today, but back in 1995,
when Tracy Ragan and Steve Taylor recognized the need for a commercial enterprise
build management tool, no one was talking about it.
Few software companies have beat the security-begins-in-the-application-development-process drum louder than automated software testing solutions vendor Parasoft Corporation. “Prevent errors as you write the code,” is the company mantra (if not exactly its slogan). The advent of service-oriented architectures that support wide-scale use of Web services makes that message even more urgent, says Wayne Ariola, Parasoft’s VP of corporate development.
In the wake of its first-ever worldwide user conference, Wind River Systems
made a spate of announcements around "refreshes" across its product
line. The biggest news for device software developers is the company's plan
to "radically redefine the development tools space" with four new
configurations of its Workbench dev tool.
Swiss company Canoo, is offering developers a free portlet integration code that can be used with Canoo’s UltraLightClient to create and run Rich Internet Applications as portlets on a portal server.
Linking business intelligence to operational processes is one of—if not the most—important goals of enterprises, and the data that is derived is priceless.