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Justifying New IT Efforts

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.

IBM touts open-source commitment

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.

Suite offers help with IT service management

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?

Sun pours two shots of Java

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.

Group forms open-source legal defense center

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.

Business rules not just for coders anymore

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.

Linux leaders at open-source summit

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.

More open UDDI Web services directory standard ratified by OASIS

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.

Software exec sees “year of the wiki”

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.

Borland adds CMM with TeraQuest acquisition

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 posts earnings growth, jabs chief rival SAP

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 unveils new WebSphere Portal and Workplace products at Lotusphere 2005

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.

New tool automates presentation layer testing

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 launches OpenSolaris project

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.

European coders are moving to SOA in a big way, according to BEA

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.

IBM goes mobile with shopping framework based on WebSphere

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.

Compuware launches two new software quality products

Compuware Corp. has launched two new products as part of its DevPartner product line -- Fault Simulator and SecurityChecker.

Compuware targets development, IT service with new offerings

Compuware has released upgrades of two products: one to assist Java developers and the other designed to improve servicing of Java applications at lower cost.

Sun unveils RFID offerings, including Java-based package

As RFID technology gathers steam, Sun Microsystems has announced new offerings in the market, including an entry-level Java product.