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."
IBM's decision this past week to sell a majority stake in its personal computer business to Lenovo Group, a vendor based in China, for $1.75 billion in cash, stock, and debt assumption, is probably as much about getting into new markets as it is about getting out of the PC business.
If its manufacturers can guarantee uninterrupted service, Linux could gain traction in the enterprise as a messaging platform within the next two years, according to a recent survey.
Businesses seen adopting the techniques and development practices of the open source community. Corporate IT and R&D organizations face many of the same distributed development challenges already overcome by the open source community, says Colin Bodell, senior vice president of product development at VA Software.
Speaking last week in San Francisco, Tony Redmond, vice president and chief technology officer of HP Services, said his company was offering the new security suite because cyber attacks "are becoming more complex, more malignant, more persistent, and more pervasive."
Oracle Corporation kicks off its OpenWorld San Francisco business and technology conference on Sunday. The focus of the five-day event (Dec. 5-9) will be Oracle's ongoing grid computing strategy, launched earlier this year with the release of the Oracle 10g product line.
The open-source stack got a little higher this past week with the launch of a new Java platform for rapid application deployment. Called JOE, and developed by El Segundo, Calif.-based Gluecode, the new offering is built on core open-source technologies from the Apache Software Foundation, including the Pluto portal framework, the Geronimo J2EE application server, the Derby database (formerly Cloudscape), and the Agila business process management (BPM) engine.
If computers are so smart, why can't they fix themselves? Every IT pro has asked that question at least once. Cadir Lee began obsessing about it back in 1997. Before "self healing" became an industry buzz phrase, Lee and his partner, Scott Dale, were pioneering the category, which has evolved into what we think of today as "support automation."
Three IT industry heavyweights, Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi, and NEC Corp., are releasing Reliable Messaging for Grid Services (RM4GS), an open-source implementation of the Web Services Reliability (WS-Reliability) standard.