Sun Microsystems is coming to this year's RSA 2005 security conference, under way this week in San Francisco, with several "love for the customer" Valentine's Day announcements. And after years of preaching that "the network is the computer," there's a bit of I-told-you-so swagger in the Santa Clara, CA-based systems company.
At this week's 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, Nokia introduced the latest edition of its Series 60 Platform, an OS for smart phones, which the company says is especially aimed at enterprise users and companies that develop wireless apps for enterprise customers.
BEA Systems has formerly unveiled a new suite of products designed specifically for the telecommunications industry. Formerly code named "Project Da Vinci," BEA's new WebLogic Communications Platform is a version of its Java-based WebLogic application sever, designed for what the San Jose, CA-based infrastructure company calls the "convergence of IT and telecom."
The secret to getting the most out of your training experience is to speak up, speak out, and speak often, veteran instructors say.
In the aftermath of 9/11, many financial firms discovered and sought to remedy serious problems with their IT infrastructure. Some dispensed with the conventional wisdom of slow and deliberate shopping in favor of a quick build-vs.-buy analysis to implement a solution quickly.
With Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System supposed to ship sometime late this year, IBM is ramping up its counteroffensive by stressing its open-source commitment.
The relationship between specific business processes and the IT infrastructure can be a difficult one to unravel. Improving internal business processes, and your company's ability to track them, can obviously help. But where to begin?
JBoss and Sun said on Monday, Feb. 7, they have signed a new multi-year agreement for JBoss to support the Java 2, Enterprise Edition platform.
You know open source has really arrived when they start bringing in the lawyers. The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) announced last week the formation of an organization that will provide free legal services for developers of free and open-source software (FOSS). The Software Freedom Law Center was established to offer advice on licensing, to show developers how to avoid intellectual property (IP) claims, and to defend against litigation when such claims arise.
Christopher L. Matthieu, director eBusiness technologies at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona (BCBSAZ), was looking for a way to take IT out of the process of making business rules changes to end user applications.
A panel of Linux luminaries took the stage at last week's Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) Linux Summit and held forth on a range of topics, from the threat of software patents to the challenges of making a career in open source.
A new version of Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), the often forgotten XML standard for Web services, won approval from OASIS, the Boston-based standard consortium, according to an announcement today.
Bruce Sharpe, VP of products at Blast Radius in Vancouver, BC, has heard the prediction 2005 will be the year of the wiki, and agrees that it may be a Web communication technology that’s time has come.
The evolution of Borland Software’s product and services strategy is a conceptual alphabet soup. First there was ALM, then SDO, now, with the company’s acquisition earlier this month of TeraQuest Metrics, add CMM to the bowl.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says that his company’s assimilation of PeopleSoft is on schedule, and he expects the assets of the former competitor to accelerate Oracle’s earnings growth for both 2005 and 2006.
IBM announced new WebSphere Portal and Workplace products, as well as upgrades to Lotus Notes and Domino, at Lotusphere 2005 in Orlando, Fla., this past week.
Mercury and Infragistics, Inc. have teamed up to offer a new testing tool. TestAdvantage 2004 Volume 3 allows automated testing of the presentation layer in Microsoft Windows Forms applications with user interfaces developed using .NET and Infragistic's NetAdvantage toolset.
Sun Microsystems unveiled its strategy for open sourcing its proprietary Solaris operating system this week, a move that Sun CEO Scott McNealy says will open the developer based for Solaris and help to drive it into new markets.
BEA recently released a survey it conducted with 1,000 developers in Europe with 75 percent indicating they “are either developing, or expect to be developing, service-oriented architectures (SOA) this year.” However, results varied by country. Surveys of developers in London and Madrid found 30 percent and nearly 25 percent respectively were already doing SOA development. But Parisian coders are not so enthusiastic with only 10 percent responding that they are into SOA development.
Signing up systems integrators including Active Decisions, 360Commerce, Cuesol, MeadWestvaco Intelligent Systems, PCMS International, Retek, Symbol Technologies, and Triversity, IBM is pushing its J2EE shopping framework.