Microsoft and Nokia, archrivals in the enterprise mobility applications space, announced two agreements at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France this week that will make it easier for wireless app developers to synch Nokia's handhelds with Microsoft's Exchange Server 2003 and for consumers to download and play music using Microsoft's Media Player.
Software development shops using Seapine Software's Surround SCM for software change management can now seamlessly integrate a Java-based IDE from JetBrains Inc.
The 14th annual RSA 2005 Security Conference and Expo, under way this week in San Francisco, saw an upstart and an old rival announce products and initiatives aimed at taking market share from the event's namesake.
Companies that used manual tracking techniques in 2004 to meet initial Sarbanes-Oxley compliance deadlines are now ripe for considering tools to automate compliance tracking, according to analysts and industry watchers.
Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect, made two big announcements during his conference-opening keynote at this week's RSA security conference in San Francisco. He told attendees that his company was on track to deliver the first version of "the ultimate mail virus protection" for Windows users by the end of this year. He also revealed that Microsoft will be releasing a new version of the Internet Explorer browser with strong, built-in security features.
On paper, the Capability Maturity Model Index seems about as different from XP and other agile programming disciplines as it can be. This is true to some degree in practice, too, because CMMI and agile adherents typically approach software development from decidedly different viewpoints. At the same time, experts say, they are complementary to a surprising degree, and there's very little, if any, irreconcilability, between the two prominent paradigms.
Borland Software initiated the next phase of its software delivery optimization strategy last week with the release of Borland Core Software Delivery Platform. Formerly code-named "Project Themis," the Core SDP provides what Borland is describing as an application lifecycle management environment with integrated tools optimized for job function and cross-role interaction.
Because the importance of identity has been elevated across the board, Liberty Alliance, a global consortium for open federated identity standards and identity-based Web services, has released ID-WSF 2.0, the second version of its Web services framework specifications.
Microsoft gave attendees at last week's VSLive conference in San Francisco a closer look at its new Web services-oriented "Indigo" communications infrastructure. During his conference keynote, Microsoft SVP Eric Rudder described Indigo as "a natural extension to the .Net Framework," which will enable developers to build more secure, reliable, and interoperable applications.
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.