Like second-place baseball teams looking to acquire .300 hitters, software vendors, in what continues to be a difficult business environment, are seeking to gain a competitive edge through acquisitions.
Future Electronics chose tools from webMethods Inc., Fairfax, Va., to integrate its non-stop-based ERP system with its quoting system residing on a Microsoft platform, said Bob Lapointe, CIO. Because data about customers and industries was part of the ERP system, Future Electronics wanted to integrate those applications rather than duplicate files back and forth, he added.
PeopleSoft Inc. has unveiled a new version of its EnterpriseOne Tools, which officials said adds features that can help mid-market companies with limited IT resources more easily deploy applications.
Many developers are entering the job market without an academic
background in software development. If you're one of them, what can
you do to fill in the gaps?
The KDE Project last week announced the availability of the first beta of the 3.3 version of its free graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations.
If you develop distributed applications, Windows XP Service
Pack 2 is bringing surprises - and they might not be pleasant
ones.
Java developers who are not frequent visitors to IBM's alphaWorks Web site might want to give it a try, as the firm has been adding as many as 10 new technologies -- many of them Java-based -- a month for free trial download in recent days.
There will always be "some tension" in the Java Community Process (JCP), observed James Gosling, Sun's distinguished fellow and the software engineer credited with creating Java.
When Sybase acquired mobile device management provider XcelleNet in April, the firm took what was widely seen as another step toward its goal of delivering end-to-end solutions for the so-called "Unwired Enterprise."
Anyone who needed another example of just how radically network security issues have shifted over the past few years must look no further than last week's recommendation from IT industry analysts at Gartner that corporations consider banning Apple Computer's wildly popular portable music player, the iPod, from the workplace.
Much has been made about the current state of Web services standards development. And yet plenty of developers aren't waiting around for the standards to coalesce (or congeal, as one writer put it).
A growing number of corporate IT operations say that business technology optimization (BTO) is an optimal approach to managing organizational IT complexity and inefficiency, according to a survey of 240 CIOs and CTOs from large U.S. enterprises.
Peter O'Kelly, an analyst with the Burton Group, says that the flavor-of-the-month time for XML standards may be coming to a merciful end.
Application development projects are too often hindered by resistance to change among system admins, so can you blame the ops folks? The production environment is frail, new software tends to break and the faster you move, the more mistakes seem to happen.
Sometimes complexity is an important tool in taming software. And sometimes it's
just complex.
IBM Rational announced on Monday that it plans to standardize its suite of automated software quality (ASQ) tools around the Hyades open-source platform. Hyades is a subgroup of the Eclipse open-source project focused on providing infrastructure for test tool interoperability as well as data traceability.
Sun Microsystems unveiled details of its plans to support Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) in its Java Enterprise System server software suite and Java Studio programming tools at last week's JavaOne conference. Enhancements to these products under "Project Kitty Hawk" will make it easier for developers to write "a new breed of enterprise software" around Java-based Web services, company officials said.
Rally Release 1, described as an on-demand software development management solution, can ease Agile software development by providing visibility into organizations and synchronizing distributed development teams, contend officials at Rally Software Development Co., Boulder, Colo.
Oracle Corp. last week unveiled what it called "the industry's first and most complete" Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform. Based on technology acquired with its recent purchase of Collaxa Inc., Oracle's new BPEL Process Manager features what the company claims is the first native BPEL "engine," or software that collects data from different applications to complete particular business processes.
With Visual Studio 2005 finally at the beta 1 stage, it's time for the
mainstream developer to take a look.