Metrowerks has agreed to sell a portfolio of application development tools based on the Symbian smart-phone operating system to Finnish handset maker Nokia.
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ACS Healthcare (ACSH), a division of Affiliated Computer Services Inc., is an outsourcing provider of diversified business process and information technology for enterprises and government clients. It has recently won contracts and renewals for medical benefits claims processing in North Carolina, Texas and Mississippi -- a $600 million a year business.
Unilever Latin America has embarked upon an enterprise-scale data warehouse and business intelligence project called Sinfonia that will eventually become one of the largest databases in the world.
Aldon, out of Emeryville, Calif., has been making the rounds of trade magazines to tout its recent support for IBM eServer i5, as well as its certification by IBM of its application life-cycle manager plug-ins for WebSphere V5.1.
Compuware has partnered with Spherion Corp. and Sogeti USA to advance its offering of QA tools and consulting packaged as the Compuware Application Reliability Solution, says Gery Plourde, CARS director.
Sun is partnering with business intelligence vendor Hyperion to develop and market business performance management solutions running on Sun's Solaris OS. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun and its Sunnyvale, Calif.-based neighbor made the announcement recently.
As Java coders make greater use of open-source tools, they need a way to organize and coordinate software downloads from the groups that make up the open-source community, argues Andy Grolnick, VP marketing at OpenLogic.
Many companies have valuable legacy mainframe applications but need to link them to new e-business applications, observes Markus Nitschke, VP of corporate marketing at Attachmate.
As a case study of how this can be done successfully, he points to the circulation department at the Los Angeles Times.
The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) announced the publication of three new profiles. The long-awaited promotion of Basic Profile 1.1, Attachments Profile 1.0 and Simple SOAP Binding Profile 1.0 to "Final Material" status marks the start of work on testing tools and sample applications for those profiles.
The need to get a handle on unstructured data drove IBM's announced acquisition of Venetica, a privately held company developing technology for gathering and integrating unstructured data.
Development teams working with open-source software need to make sure they don't get themselves into legal problems with license agreements, warns Brent Carlson, vice president of technology at LogicLibrary.
Trends in UML and the success of XML signal an increasing respect for data models. But with appreciation sometimes comes gigantism. If data models are good, then isn't bigger better?
After a month of hype and alarms, analysts say they see Microsoft XP Service Pack rolling out with few major problems, and they seem cautiously optimistic about the patch's ability to fix security holes plaguing the OS.
Intel finally deliveres on its promise to update its Centrino processor platform with the launch of a tri-mode Wi-Fi adapter for notebook PCs.
Microsoft releases the latest versions of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), its server management software, to manufacturing. MOM 2005 and MOM 2005 Workgroup Edition (formerly known as MOM 2005 Express) are part of the Redmond software maker's ongoing Dynamic Systems Initiative, the company's long-term systems management strategy.
The new version of Seapine Software's Surround SCM software change management product emphasizes integration with the tools and technologies development teams are using, says Rick Riccetti, president and CEO.
Actuate is joining the Eclipse Foundation as a strategic developer to spearhead the creation of business intelligence and reporting tools for the open-source Java IDE.
Seeking to win over Java coders working on Linux, IBM is making its Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Linux available as a free download on its developerWorks Web site.