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.
Art Technology Group's Adam Belmont has spent the past year working to make it easier for Java developers to build customer-facing Web applications on IBM's WebSphere Studio platform.
IBM is donating some of its software for speech-enabling applications to two open-source organizations: the Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation.
JBoss Application Server 4.0, middleware recently certified for J2EE, is ready for enterprise production deployment, according to JBoss. It's available now under the Lesser General Public License open-source license.
Borland Software unveiled the next phase of its product strategy at its annual user conference, held in San Jose, Calif., last week. With that strategy -- dubbed Software Delivery Optimization (SDO) -- the historically developer-focused toolmaker is turning its sights toward the business needs and "pain points" of management.
The extension of patent law to cover software raises great dangers for an industry that has become increasingly litigious over the past decade.
Java and .NET developers who wish to incorporate legacy applications into their Web applications can use NetManage tools, says Yuan Huntington, director of product management at the firm, which also markets the Rumba host-to-PC terminal emulator product.
"ASP.NET Cookbook" by Geoffrey LeBlond and Michael Kittel is aimed at programmers who want a quick way to create dynamic, data-driven Web sites with Active Server Pages running on Microsoft Web servers.
Seeking to position itself at the top of the heap among vendors in the emerging market for SOA management software, Digital Evolution, announced this week that it has acquired Flamenco Networks.
The need to provide "a better mobile experience" to users running Java apps on cell phones and handhelds has led Sun to partner with ARM, a U.K.-based maker of 16- and 32-bit embedded RISC microprocessors.
The number of developers using J2ME to create applications on wireless platforms has reached new heights, according to Evans Data in its "2004 Wireless Development Survey."
Marc Fleury, founder and CEO of JBoss, says "high-end Java developers" will appreciate the significance of integrating JBossCache with Sleepycat's Berkeley DB.