Who says you can't use agile software development methodologies for large, complex projects with high assurance requirements? Certainly not the members of Lockheed Martin's flight software development team, who employ agile principles in combination with traditional, plan-driven processes to develop guidance software for the Atlas V rocket.
The first major release of IBM WebSphere in two years offers self-healing capabilities to provide failover for business transactions conducted via the Internet.
Seeing an opportunity to help companies deal with Sarbanes-Oxley, nLayers is offering an IT network appliance that helps with compliance. The San Jose, Calif.-based start-up's first product, nLayers InSight, is a passive -- as in non-invasive -- plug-in appliance that provides IT departments with an optimization tool that looks at the infrastructure and finds ways to streamline business processes.
Three former BEA Systems executives have launched a company they hope will become the Dell of open-source software.
Sun Microsystems last week released the long-awaited overhaul of the Java 2 Standard Edition. Sun is calling J2SE 5.0, code name "Project Tiger," the most significant upgrade of the Java platform and programming language in nearly a decade.
Sun has proposed some pretty silly patents lately. I wonder if they still think
they're a good idea after last week?
A San Francisco database solutions provider is applying it to the daunting task of managing the burgeoning data that threatens to bury the enterprise.
The concept of providing businesses with compute pools of network-attached processing power is the brainchild of Azul Systems, a Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up.
When a toolmaker known for its almost Zen-like focus on developers begins turning its attention toward the business needs and concerns of management, it's fair to ask: "Where will this new strategy leave programmers?" The toolmaker in question is Borland Software, whose recent unveiling of the next phase of its evolving product strategy, dubbed Software Delivery Optimization (SDO), raises that question.
Wikis are Web sites that anyone can edit. This seems like a recipe for disaster,
but in fact they can be surprisingly resilient.
Marius Roets, an integration architect at Woolworths Holdings Ltd. runs a Microsoft shop with developers used to working with Visual Studio .NET. The retail chain with 180 stores in South Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australasia, had requirements for building a data monitoring and alerting system with a Sybase enterprise portal and a J2EE application server. So at the beginning of this year Roets faced the question of "How can I develop a J2EE application in a Microsoft environment?"
The notion of running IT like a business seems to have established itself as the next big industry idea.
How would you like to build full-fledged enterprise apps 10 times faster? That's a claim being made by Jeff Walker, founder, chairman and CTO of TenFold.
Microsoft is planting its flag firmly in the application life-cycle management (ALM) space with the latest addition to its Visual Studio product line, Visual Studio 2005 Team System. Currently in its first beta release, VS Team System will include new capabilities for team coordination and collaborative development, says Rick LaPlante, general manager of the Visual Studio 2005 Team System at Microsoft.
The non-profit Free Standards Group releases Linux Standard Base (LSB) 2.0, which is designed to assure compatibility of applications running on the various flavors of Linux.
The need for enterprise security processes and procedures has become so pervasive that companies that do not include security as a component of their software deployments risk seeing their downtime rise from 5% in 2004 to 15% in 2008. This from market researcher Gartner in one of its latest reports, "Building a Sound Security Infrastructure: New Defenses for a New World of Threats."
The event-driven, publish-subscribe model offers a new way of conceptualizing development, says Doug Moore, president of Accius Systems, a software consultant specializing in data-driven Internet applications.
The total number of virus attacks are down, but malicious codemeisters are getting faster, more sophisticated, and they're beginning to target e-commerce concerns and small businesses. That's the conclusion of a report published this week by security application provider Symantec.
PeopleSoft and IBM have struck a deal they are calling “the most significant enterprise application alliance in the companies’ history.”
Web services spefications have proliferated like rabbits over the last couple of
years. Most developers should just ignore the whole mess for the time being.