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.
Declaring independence from technology lock-in sounds like a good idea. But is it actually a good idea?
Integration brokers are increasingly becoming part of application platforms from the major vendors, including IBM, Microsoft and BEA, according to analysts at the Burton Group.
Like Sonic Software, another early player in the Java Messaging Service vineyard, Fiorano Software Inc. has expanded its middleware portfolio and begun to support Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions. Earlier this year, Fiorano released Fiorano Enterprise Service Bus 3.5, with HTTP receive services for portal integration.
The Liberty Alliance Project, the non-profit trade group organized to develop open standards and tools for federated network identity, has added some more industry heavyweights to its ranks. Intel and Oracle were among seven organizations that joined as sponsor members recently.
DataSource Inc., Greenbelt, Md., doing its part in the quest for a 'gentler Java,' has brought out Jetson, an application development toolset that officials said can help non-Java programmers to develop J2EE applications, thus making those difficult EJBs easier to use.
Never underestimate the power of a name -- or in this case, a category. Now that the enterprise service bus (ESB) has been officially identified by IT industry watchers, life is a little easier for companies like Cape Clear Software. "Our products have always been based on ESB," Cape Clear co-founder David Clark told eADT over lunch in Palo Alto recently, "but we've had to spend a lot of time explaining ourselves to our customers. Now that [industry analysts at] Gartner have put us in the ESB category, we've got something to hang our hat on."