The big brains on the Java team at Sun Microsystems have what Graham Hamilton, Sun's VP and Fellow for Java Platform and Architecture, calls "a secret obsession." "The Java developer base is large, and we're happy about that, but we want to grow that base even more," he says. "To do that, we believe that we have to simplify development to make it easier for all developers to write large, rich applications."
Oracle Corp. is poised to make what a company executive calls a “big push” in the business intelligence market in an effort to get customers to take advantage of as much functionality as BI tools have to offer.
Novell unveiled the latest version of its Linux OS last week. Built on technology the Waltham, Mass-based software maker picked up with its recent acquisition of SuSE, Novell Linux Desktop 9 is aimed squarely at enterprise users.
Geographically distributed software development projects are fast becoming the norm, and managing far flung dev teams is shaping up to become one of the biggest challenges faced by enterprise IT today. Conference calls, email, and instant messaging are basic to the process, but the increasing complexity of the software being developed is stirring up demand for what industry icon Grady Booch has described as "new development environments that support interactions between geographically disparate stake holders."
Supercomputing isn't just for science any more--it's not even just for supercomputers. So-called high-performance technical computing (HPTC) is spreading beyond traditional academic and governmental environments, and emerging as a serious option for enterprise IT.
Requirements are the foundation of every software development project. Good, bad, or ugly, everything gets built on them. Karl E. Wiegers believes that developers can put a little rebar in that foundation by recognizing a set of nearly universal requirements principals he calls "cosmic truths."
Universal Business Language (UBL), the standard for XML business documents in B2B applications, was approved this week by OASIS, the Boston-based international standards consortium.
Providing law offices and citizens with specific data on court schedules and other judicial information without compromising security was the challenge Robert McDonald faces as chief architect of Court Services Online.
Windows-based enterprises are taking their sweet time implementing the newly available Windows XP Service Pack 2 (XPSP2). The reason for this foot dragging? Expectations that XPSP2 migration will negatively impact business continuity in their organizations.
SOAs have arrived, but building and managing them is still a challenge for most organizations. That's a challenge IBM Global Services is taking on with a newly created practice aimed at helping enterprises migrate to service-oriented architectures. Unveiled this past week, Big Blue's new SOA Management Practice will seek to help customers with Web services management capabilities as they scale to enterprise-wide SOAs.
Architected Rapid Application Development (ARAD) is a new category of tools with a proven ROI edge, according to a recently completed user survey by Gartner, Inc.
One of the leading vendors of operating systems, development tools, and middleware for devices, Wind River Systems, jumps on the lifecycle bandwagon.
Some noteworthy enterprise-focused announcements found their way into the usual cacophony of consumer-oriented gizmo news that characterizes the annual CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment conference
Intel Corporation pushed its WiMAX strategy another step forward this week with the announcement of a partnership deal with Clearwire, Inc. a wireless broadband services company founded by cellular pioneer Craig McCaw.
After 18 months of “hard work,” the proposed Java Business Integration (JBI) specification was released for public comment on Wednesday, Sun Microsystems announced.
Tony Nadalin, distinguished engineer and chief security architect for IBM, started working on Java security models with colleagues from Sun Microsystems in the late 1990s, and says that work is now paying off for Java developers.
IBM is collaborating with Sharp Corporation in Japan to develop a high-capacity flash memory card equipped with IBM's Java Card Open Platform (JCOP) OS, the two companies disclosed last week. The 1-megabyte IC cards represent a big step up in storage capacity from conventional 16 to 32 KB cards, said Angus McIntyre, IBM’s product line manager for embedded Java products.
The perpetual software license is slipping as subscription and utility models gain market traction among both software makers and their customers, according to a new industry survey released last week.
Programmers don’t have a reputation for being the most sociable types in an organization, but don’t tell that to Tremaine Smith, assistant director of the audit division for the State of Washington’s Department of Revenue. Smith recently completed a business intelligence (BI) project with a team made up of in-house programmers and consultants from HP Services in which socializing, he believes, was a key to success.
"Security is no longer an afterthought:" That's a phrase we hear a lot these days, but its significance isn't often fully appreciated. If security has ceased to be an issue that comes up only after an application has been built, then it must be getting baked in much earlier in the development process--or at least it should be.
And that means – here's the significant part -- that more than ever before, the security onus is falling on the shoulders of developers.