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.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--Apple CEO Steve Jobs kicked off this week's annual Macworld Conference and Expo by demoing the new "Tiger" release of Mac OS X and unveiling the hotly rumored Mac mini "headless" desktop PC and a new flash-memory-based iPod.
If you wanted to design a language for high-speed processing and transactions, you could probably do better than XML. But the question is: Could a new format or standard achieve the widespread popularity of XML?
Use of the communications tool is soaring, and two experts say there is potential for even more growth within the corporation, and probably for internal IT use.
Caucho Technology, Inc., which makes a Java application server used by more than 3,500 corporate, education and government clients, has become a J2EE licensee, the company and Sun Microsystems announced Monday.
While Bill Gates's keynote crash at last week's International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas grabbed headlines, a number of more useful (if less entertaining) enterprise-oriented announcements came out of that traditionally consumer-oriented trade show. Mobility and wireless technologies blurred the lines between "consumer" and "enterprise" at this year's show.
360Commerce has released its latest Java-based software suite for retailers, the company announced this week.
Along with the expected sessions on digital photography, DVD creation, and the new live-on-stage "iPod Supersession," this week's Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco will have a strong enterprise component. A three-day conference within the conference, called MacIT, will focus on Apple deployments in the enterprise.
If you had 90 days to port IPTV software from Microsoft .NET to Java running on Tomcat, you’d have a problem Noam Fogel knows well. Fogel is vice president of research and development for Infogate Online Ltd., a Tel Aviv, Israel-based provider of software used by telcos and cable operators to offer video and games on demand to their customers.
Building a worldwide database of development information, which currently includes about 7,000 software projects, the QSM engineers led by Putnam created mathematical predictive formulas that can be used to “estimate projects, measure their productivity.
Intel's new Active Management Technology (ATM) looks to become a key enabler of so-called out-of-band management.
Oracle is adding some rocket fuel to its tools promotion strategy with a contest that promises to send one lucky developer into space--literally. Announced at the recent Oracle OpenWorld conference (but upstaged by the PeopleSoft acquisition drama), the Oracle Space Sweepstakes gives participants a chance to take part in a suborbital spaceflight, experience weightlessness, and view the earth from 62 miles up.