Slowly but surely, Microsoft is entering an era of real partnership with those
who use and customize its software.
Compuware Corp. this week announced a major upgrade of its OptimalJ development environment. Updates are said to better unite analysis, design and testing processes.
Signs of tensions appeared in a JavaOne press conference at which Sun's McNealy asserted that its Java ally IBM wanted “to wrest control of Java."
As part of Borland's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) approach to providing optimization from development and testing through production, the company has announced a new version of Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 for J2EE.
Microsoft redoubles its efforts to spread its tools at the low end with the announcement of a set of Microsoft Express product lines for Visual Studio and SQL Server.
"This economy is growing at breakneck speed," Sun's Schwartz told his audience at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. He said it is fulfilling the original vision of Sun's founders that eventually "everything and everybody will be connected to the network."
eBay has expanded its developer program to include members of a newly formed "affiliate tier," significantly broadening its support for builders of third-party applications for the eBay platform, executives told attendees of the annual eBay developers conference last week in New Orleans.
It is still in beta, but when it's fully cooked, a new software add-on expected soon from IBM will "turbocharge" its WebSphere application server, company officials say.
On the first day of JavaOne 2004, Borland Software is announcing that it is joining Sun, Oracle, BEA and other vendors of the Java Tools Community (JTC).
Details that point to a more mature Java are in store this week as Sun Microsystems features a new version of the Java 2 Platform at JavaOne in San Francisco. </p>
Positioned as something of a RAD-environment, the software marks a departure for a company that has focused much of its tool efforts at nitty-gritty Java development.
Ilog has announced a new version of its Ilog JViews 6.0 component family that allows customers to separately buy some family members. As well, JViews 6.0 features new specialized components to support business process management (BPM) on the Java platform.
Some people at Microsoft are experimenting with letting the outside world
see more of the development process. Could there be such a thing as too much
transparency out of Redmond?
Although development around XML and Web services continues to be primarily a software story, hardware, specifically the XML router, has a key role to play, according to Girish Juneja, co-founder of Sarvega Inc., Chicago.
Popkin Software has expanded its System Architect enterprise architecture and modeling toolset to include greater support for business-oriented process management, the company said at this week's DCI Meta Business Process Management conference in Boston. With the next version of System Architect (Version 10), due in July, the company will include integrated support for the XML-based Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).
Business intelligence (BI) must be real-time as well as right time, and that means business activity monitoring (BAM) and business process monitoring (BPM) need XML, according to Anant Jhingran, IBM's director of business intelligence.
Many a corporate Web portal has been tripped up by a need to classify content. Over the years, this has stubbornly remained a place where humans outshine machinery. In a new product that takes a new approach to classifying, search specialist Verity Inc. looks to better empower those humans in the organization that are most capable of classifying the content with which they work.
ADT's Programmers Report occasionally looks at security
issues from the point of view of source code analysis and better coding
practices. We recently met with Chris Wysopal, vice president of R&D for
@stake Inc., and thought he had a different take on this issue. What follows are
excerpts from an e-mail interview.
Jon Bork, Intel's director of cross architecture, has a solution: mobilize all of your applications from the get-go. "We have been telling ISVs that we believe mobilized software should be the only version of their software," Bork says.
Few industry buzzwords have maintained the kind of traction we have seen from the Real-Time Enterprise (RTE). The ideal of a system that allows managers to get information about their companies in real time for faster decision-making, improved performance management, and quicker reactions to change has captured the imagination of managers everywhere. RTE is an ideal that is fast becoming a competitive requirement.