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.
IBM and Red Hat launched a jointly developed Linux certification and support program in Europe earlier this month in an effort to accelerate the migration of applications to Linux in that part of the world.
The wave of consolidations sweeping the software industry has picked up two leading security vendors. Leading consumer antivirus maker Symantec Corp. and top enterprise storage and backup management products vendor Veritas Software announced this week that they will be tying the knot in the New Year.
No matter how hard programmers work coding a Web application, the public Internet just isn’t up to handling the global demands of corporations needing high volume transaction processing, argues Brian de Haaff, director of product management for Palo Alto, Calif.-based Netli.
The road to a professional career usually begins in college; now, a software vendor believes that same route can make for more secure software.
Our favorite security guru, Gary McGraw, has said it so often that it's almost a cliche: If you want secure systems, you've got to build security into the applications that run on them. A Rocklin, Calif.-based startup called Kenai Systems is now applying that maxim to Web services with what the company's founders believe are category-creating tools for developers.
This week, Sybase disclosed that it has joined the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program, integrating its DataWindow .NET solution into the Visual Studio .NET 2003 integrated development environment (IDE).
BEA Systems offered a sneak peek at the upcoming version of its WebLogic Server for reporters and analysts this past week. Now in beta, version 9.0, code-named Diablo, continues to expand on the San Jose, Calif.-based company's strategy of simplifying development of applications in a service-oriented architectures.
The battle for PeopleSoft is over and Oracle has won. Now the question becomes: How will Oracle's pending $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft affect both companies' customers?
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has an "information-age answer" to the myriad problems associated with the growing fragmentation of data among disparate enterprise applications. Speaking to a crowd of attendees at this past week's massive Oracle OpenWorld conference, Ellison called the "data hub" the "single most important application" needed to unite islands of information into a "single global instance," and provide organizations with real-time access to "360-degree views of their businesses."