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.
Compuware Corp. has launched two new products as part of its DevPartner product line -- Fault Simulator and SecurityChecker.
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.
As RFID technology gathers steam, Sun Microsystems has announced new offerings in the market, including an entry-level Java product.
Sun Microsystems is set to unveil its strategy for open sourcing its Solaris operating system Tuesday, Jan. 24, beginning immediately with the DTrace utility. The source code for DTrace, Sun's new dynamic tracing framework, will be available for download Tuesday at opensolaris.org. The company is promising to provide "buildable code" from the upcoming Solaris 10 release by the second quarter.
IBM won’t be testing, certifying, or supporting its enterprise software applications on Solaris 10 for x86 platforms--at least not until demand for the latest release of Sun Microsystems’s UNIX-based operating system warms up.
Just hours after Oracle Corp. outlined its plans this past week for integrating its newly acquired PeopleSoft assets, chief rival SAP snatched a bit of the spotlight by offering to take over the maintenance and service of PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards (JDE) applications, and even migrate their users to the SAP platform.
Oracle this week unwrapped its organizational strategy following this month’s acquisition of PeopleSoft, promising customers of both companies that they shouldn’t notice any changes in product support.
This past year was a good one for the software business, at least, if your name is IBM.
Big Blue reported its fourth quarter and full-year results this week, and showed good if not spectacular growth in its software businesses.
IBM seen challenging software industry with release of patents to open source community.
The recently expanded relationship between Microsoft and SAP bore fruit last week in the form of a new portal development kit (PDK). The PDK for Microsoft .NET is designed to make it easier for programmers using the Visual Studio .NET IDE to develop, test, and deploy applications that run within the SAP Enterprise Portal.
As Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs came to the end of his Macworld keynote in San Francisco last week, the audience was positively twitching in anticipation of the unveiling of the new Mac mini, the tiny "headless" desktop offering, about which rumors were flying the week before. He joked with the crowd, saying that he wished he had a nickel for every time someone asked him for a stripped down Mac.
Wireless technologies may be growing, but vendors still have a ways to go to meet the potential demand from business users, according to an IDC analyst.