Borland Software Corp. has announced the imminent release of the latest version of its JBuilder IDE.
Attendance at last week's LinuxWorld Expo was on a par with the previous year's show (between 10,000 and 11,000, according to conference organizers), but the exhibit floor was busting at the seams. More than 190 vendors (around 55 more than last year) pitched their tents in San Francisco's Moscone Center to flog their latest Penguinesque offerings.
Scott Dietzen, chief technology officer at BEA Systems, left the company last week, adding to the list of recent high-level executive departures from the San Jose, Calif.-based application infrastructure software maker.
With demand for Microsoft SQL Server connectivity for Java applications growing steadily, and with many companies migrating their production platform from the 32-bit SQL Server 200 Enterprise Edition to the 64-bit versions of SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005, JNetDirect has added 64-bit support to two of its components.
(Editor's note: JDT conducted this interview with
Thomas Schaeck, IBM WebSphere Portal architect, via e-mail.)
For several years now Microsoft and IBM have been politely engaged in the run up to what is set to be an awesome battle, one that will commence within the next two years and will help to shape the technology industry for the next decade.
With a new open source license and a million-dollar bounty, Computer Associates
is trying to push the Ingres database into the open source community. But I
wonder how well the pushing will work.
IBM disclosed this week at LinuxWorld that it has donated its Cloudscape database to the open-source Apache Software Foundation.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has rarely taken on the “visionary” role since he gave over his CEO hat to Steve Ballmer and took on the job of Chief Software Architect in January 2000. But he has focused on the big view of late in a meeting with financial analysts and at a session with the Microsoft Research Faculty.
For mobile application developers who have been struggling with integrating their apps with back-end enterprise messaging systems, Sybase-owned iAnywhere Solutions this week unveiled a new application-to-application messaging technology within its SQL Anywhere Studio product.
Penguin par excellence Bruce Perens warns of patent perturbations at LinuxWorld. By the way, his new gig? Board member on the Open Source Risk Management consortium.
When he's not talking about his company's hardware products for XML network processing, Eugene Kuznetsov, CTO at Cambridge, Mass.-based DataPower Technology Inc., is evangelizing for DOP.
Everybody needs a home and now programmers working with XQuery have one on the Web.
It wasn't too very long ago that the Web browser became "the ubiquitous client." The immediate result was a shift to server-side development and a catch-as-catch-can approach to user interfaces.
Red Hat announces the availability of its first J2EE application server. Announced at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, the open-source Red Hat Application Server (RHAS) is designed to be a low-cost alternative to offerings such as IBM’s WebSphere, company officials said.
Is Open Source a good thing or not? Sun doesn't seem to be able to make
up its mind about that.
At this week's LinuxWorld in San Francisco, Big Blue is expected to reach out to developers and ISVs with new resources to help them tune their applications for Linux on Power environments.
The West Coast edition of the bi-annual LinuxWorld conference opens during the first week of August 2004 in San Francisco. More than 190 exhibitors were showcasing their wares -- 55 more than 2003.
IBM announces that it has agreed to acquire Cyanea, an Oakland, Calif.-based privately held company founded in 2001 that specializes in application monitoring and management software.
Data integration and warehousing firm Ascential Software Corp. has announced that Churchill Downs Inc. has selected data integration solutions from Ascential as part of a customer relationship management (CRM) project designed to improve services and offerings to the race track's most profitable customers.