IBM released the first software development patterns represented in code and integrated with tools for automating enterprise application development. Available on IBM's developerWorks Web site, the four new IBM Enterprise Patterns work with IBM's Rational Software Architect tool.
IBM acquired Gluecode Software, a privately held company which provides software and support services for open-source application infrastructure software.
IBM’s alphaWorks updated its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Laszlo, a technology preview of an Eclipse-based development environment for creating, editing, debugging and testing applications based on the LZX declarative mark-up language.
The Apache Software Foundation yesterday said it is proposing to create a new project called Harmony that will lead to the development of an open-source version of Java 2, Standard Edition (J2SE) runtime platform.
U.S. businesses are spending cautiously but steadily on technology this year, although oil prices, interest rates and currency fluctuations could slow IT spending worldwide
RIM’s ubiquitous BlackBerry has proven so popular that the company is now the top PDA vendor worldwide, according to market research Gartner. Sales of all PDAs worldwide topped 3.4 million units in the first quarter of 2005, a 25 percent increase from the same period last year, Gartner adds.
The thing about a knowledge management solution is, it’s tough to get hard data to demonstrate ROI. Even when you know it’s working, how do you quantify the value of technology that allows you to make the most of the experience, skill and expertise your enterprise already has?
Depending on whose statistics you believe, the number of non-technical users who use business intelligence and analytics applications is between a tenth and a third of the total of business users.
What’s the hottest trend in BI? Several industry causes celebres come to mind–data integration, anyone?–but a very good case can be made for an emerging trend in favor of user “self-service” applications.
E-mail encryption is now one of the fastest-growing categories in the e-mail security market, concludes a recent study by Osterman Research, and it’s likely to grow by more than 100 percent over the next 12 months. One of the key drivers of this warp-speed growth spurt, the analysts found, is corporate anxiety about regulatory compliance.
According to a recent survey by Evans Data, wireless developers are not loyal to any particular toolset and would switch tools to mobilize more easily. Of the nearly 500 wireless developers surveyed, 56 percent would consider changing programming languages or tools to mobilize applications more easily. In addition, 78 percent of wireless developers are writing new applications from the ground up, while 58 percent are extending legacy applications.
E-mail encryption is now one of the fastest-growing categories in the e-mail security market, concludes a recent study by Osterman Research, and it’s likely to grow by more than 100 percent over the next 12 months. One of the key drivers of this warp-speed growth spurt, the analysts found, is corporate anxiety about regulatory compliance.
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group said on Wednesday that it will work with the developers of the wireless technology commonly known as Ultra-wideband (UWB) to make the technologies compatible.
OAUG, the Oracle apps users group, and Quest International Users Group, an association for PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards users, have formed the Fusion Council, which will provide users of Oracle's Fusion software with an educational tool and forum for learning more about the middleware and act as a bridge between users and Oracle to add in the development of Fusion.
Nortel enhanced its Office Anywhere mobility software, adding new platform capabilities that will offer unified communications to mobile workers.
When Microsoft announced in January that it was dropping XQuery support from the next release of the .NET Framework, the company’s reasoning seemed sound enough: XQuery will not receive final approval from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body shepherding its development, until early 2006. But the .NET Framework 2.0 (code-named “Whidbey”) is due this summer, which means that Microsoft will be finalizing the code well before XQuery becomes a W3C recommendation, “making it impossible,” says Microsoft, “for us to guarantee forward compatibility between any XQuery support in .NET 2.0 and the eventual XQuery 1.0 recommendation.”
Gartner, a market research company, has tapped seven small technology providers it says has the right stuff to be cool. Anne-Marie Roussel, research vice president and "Cool Vendors" lead Gartner analyst, says these companies share three attributes: innovative, enabling users to do things they couldn't do before; impactful, because have, or will have, business impact; and, intriguing, mainly because Gartner noticed them.
IBM today added three arrows to its Emerging Technology Toolkit (ETTK) quiver in the form of new software aimed at developers using emerging XML standards—such as XHTML, XForms and VoiceXML—to build Web applications that tie into service-oriented architectures (SOAs).
SOA Software said today its SOA Software's Service Manager is now integrated with Oracle BPEL Process Manager and related products. SOA Software Service Manager enables enterprise to secure, monitor and manage XML and Web services applications and components across distributed enterprises and extranets.
It’s not uncommon to have development teams who are proficient in a Microsoft environment, but customers who demand applications that run on J2EE, UNIX or Linux. Solutions such as rewriting the code or manually porting it after development can take many months.