In the fiercely competitive travel industry, where airlines must do all they can to stay afloat, one airline has found a way to turn data into dollars. Independence Air captures more than one gigabyte of operational data per day on such things as flight loads, geographical market, price points, booking curves, seasonality, time of day, timeliness, lost baggage and revenue accounting.
There's a new player in the open-source database game. Startup EnterpriseDB emerged from stealth mode last month to launch the first public beta of its flagship product, a PostgreSQL-based database management system: EnterpriseDB 2005.
If you’re wondering what your organization should invest in, Gartner’s ideas may help you decide. Gartner is encouraging IT firms to make room in their programs and budgets for five key topic areas this year: open-source software, voice/data convergence, service-oriented architecture, IT utility and global sourcing.
Quest Software recently introduced its latest version of Toad for Oracle, used to manage database objects, create and debug PL/SQL, and create, execute and optimize SQL queries. The database tool is aimed at Oracle Real Application Clusters, Citrix and terminal server environments.
SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 will be formally launched during the week of Nov. 7, according to Paul Flessner, senior vice president of Server Applications at Microsoft at this week’s Microsoft TechEd 2005
Why do so many application development organizations push security to the back of the bus? One reason, says Gartner analyst Ray Wagner, is that security requires a level of expertise most developers don't have.
Borland Software recently laid out plans for JBuilder, including continued development of JBuilder products to utilize Eclipse as the integration framework.
Developers of mobile applications for Symbian-based devices will soon have another tool to help them meet growing demands. Freescale Semiconductor’s Metrowerks group announced plans to release a new version of its CodeTEST analysis tool for Symbian.
Interest is reaching an all-time high for service-oriented architecture, and application and integration servers will play a pivotal role in SOAs, according to a recent study by The Yankee Group.
Enterprises vying to take advantage of the capabilities in service-oriented architecture now have another product to choose from—Allen Systems Group recently released its SOA starter kit.
In an effort to help enterprises comply with government regulations and join the service-oriented architecture drive, Hewlett-Packard introduced new software to its OpenView line, targeting these areas.
The Eclipse Foundation says the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project version 1.0 is now generally available.
JBoss has introduced a program for its partners that it says will help them handle demand for JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS) in mission critical deployments. Certified partners will provide third-party technologies, integration, migration and services to support JBoss products.
It’s no secret that developers dabble in open source even if their primary development environment is Microsoft’s .NET. According to a study by Evans Data, one in five developers whose primary IDE is Visual Studio .NET has also written at least one Linux application. The study also indicates that more than half the .NET developers surveyed used open-source components in their application development.
When Iron Mountain lost 40 backup tapes containing personal information about 600,000 current and former employees of Time Warner earlier this year, it grabbed headlines, but it wasn't such big news. The Time Warner incident came just weeks after Bank of America reported losing backup tapes containing financial information about more than 1.2 million federal employees, including 60 U.S. senators. And a month before that, Ameritrade acknowledged losing backup tapes containing information about 200,000 clients.
Oracle has unveiled its product information management solution. Announced last year, the Oracle PIM Data Hub is designed to enable customers to centralize all product information from heterogeneous systems, creating a single product repository that can be leveraged across functional departments.
In response to customer demand, IBM announced its strategy to address the software as services market. IDC forecasts the market will grow at an annual compound rate of 21 percent to $10.7 billion in 2009. The growth is largely attributed to customers’ increased desire for flexibility and the ability to access business functions remotely as a service with usage-based pricing.
Lifecycle management tops the industry buzz phrase list these days, but the notion that companies need to integrate the various roles in the software development process—from business analysts to system architects, designers, developers and testers—isn't just marketing speak.
The process of developing embedded systems software and the process of developing software for desktops and servers have a lot in common. But the differences are dramatic. Embedded software is usually targeted to specific hardware. And often, the software and hardware are being developed at the same time.