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.
Compuware is releasing updated Java tools for managing the performance of applications running on IBM WebSphere and legacy systems.
Sybase is moving to claim a share of the burgeoning market for radio frequency identification technology (RFID) with an early adopter program.
BEA Systems this week unveiled a specialized version of its WebLogic platform aimed at ISVs. The WebLogic Platform ISV Edition is an integrated application platform suite (APS) designed to enable BEA's partners to meet growing customer demand for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs).
Although it is owned by Progress Software, DataDirect provides technology not just for the RDBMS of its parent company, but for other major RDBMS makers such as IBM, Sybase, Oracle and Microsoft. In fact, new company president Rick Reidy likes to call DataDirect "the Switzerland of data access."
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San Diego this spring, Microsoft's Bill Gates listed speech recognition, handwriting recognition and code-free modeling among his top 10 "Holy Grails of computers." Ben Chen, CTO at Snapbridge Software, an XML technology start-up in San Diego County, Calif., adds another Holy Grail to the list -- content management of all text and graphics for the publishing industry.
Since it was introduced in 1997, the enormously popular open-source, server-side scripting language PHP has been gaining momentum, winning fans and burrowing into the enterprise. Consequently, many of the new features in the just-released PHP 5 are designed to improve interoperability.
Managing J2EE enterprise applications is not always the first thing on a Java developer's mind, but that may be changing, according to Martin Milani, CTO at Intersperse Inc., a Pasadena, Calif.-based provider of monitoring and management software.
The pursuit of standards in the software industry makes for strange bedfellows. A case in point is the recent collaboration of BEA Systems, IBM, Microsoft, SAP and Sun Microsystems on the Web services specification, WS-Addressing, which the group submitted last week to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).