Compuware officials contend that it is now possible to tie infrastructure management to service management via the new Release 9.1 of its Vantage product, and to have a richer set of network information associated with it.
The fallout over several years of accounting misdeeds at Computer Associates (CA) International Inc. continued this week as the Islandia, N.Y.-based software maker restated more than $2 billion booked in 2000 and 2001 revenue and further shuffled its management team.
The Middleware Company (TMC) and DevelopMentor, former rivals in the technology training game, are engaging in a kind of core-competency swap in an agreement they are calling a "community and training alliance."
Lewis Cirne founded Wily Technology in 1998. Wily tools support a range of app servers, and the JBoss open-source server has just been added to the mix.
Autonomic computing is an attempt to do for software, networks, servers and workstations what the human autonomic nervous system does for our bodies, says Kathy Mandelstein, program director at IBM. Big Blue has high hopes for this technology -- which combines tools developed by its research center and Tivoli unit -- that in the ultimate scenario would allow computers to diagnose and fix problems with little or no human intervention.
Some thoughts about how to handle development when your team is smeared across
the map.
The much-hyped Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) revolution may unfold more as an evolution with its full impact coming late in this decade, according to Gene Alvarez, vice president with Meta Group’s Technology Research Services.
IBM has rolled out new software and services designed to help customers implement Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), including enhancements to its WebSphere Application Server, and new planning and assessment services. The company joins other top-tier Java market players that continue to vigorously promote Service-Oriented Architecture as solution to enterprise problems.
Working for a banking corporation in acquisition mode, Scott Matthew, vice president, office of technology at Pacific Capital Bancorp (PCB), has become a strong advocate of Java and open-source software.
A group of leading enterprise software, hardware and services vendors have announced the formation of The Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA), a new industry consortium created to speed the adoption of grid computing.
Seeking to enhance the wireless offerings of its iAnywhere Solutions subsidiary, Sybase Inc. announced this week that it is purchasing the assets of Dejima, a privately held company based in Redwood Shores, Calif.
The Justice Department just busted a bunch of software pirates. Is it time to
clean up your own hard drive?
Sanjay Kumar resigned Wednesday as chairman and CEO at Computer Associates (CA) International Inc., according to an announcement from the internal audit committee dealing with the giant software vendor’s accounting scandal.
Object-oriented database maker ObjectStore is back on the scene after a bit of a hiatus. Now, as a division of Progress Software, ObjectStore is rolling out ObjectStore 5.1 with JDO handling, ObjectCache 2.0 with data source synchronization (DSS), and a variety of initiatives clustered around the idea of the real-time enterprise that is exemplified by new RFID integration efforts.
Snapbridge Software, an XML technology start-up based in San Diego County, is seeking to expand on its recent releases of XStudio, a drag-and-drop desktop tool for building XSL transforms; and FDX, its high-speed transformation and fusing engine for pulling together XML and non-XML data. The company said it was set to deliver an IDE -- XStudio Pro -- for developing enterprise XML applications and a platform -- FDX XML Server -- on which to run them.
While they compete heatedly in application servers, but BEA Systems and IBM Corp. agree on at least one thing. They want to link Java with the Business Process Execution Language (BPEPL) for Web Services.
This is somewhat off the beaten Programmers Report track, but here are some thoughts on baking cakes and modeling software, with due respects to writer Ray Weiss.
You can spend hundreds of dollars on an optimizing C++ compiler - or you can
download Microsoft's for free. What's going on here?
Sun Microsystems announcing an update of its Secure Web Server Reference Architecture during its iForce Partner Summit in San Diego. Basically a set of how-to plans for developing Web-serving solutions, the reference architecture defines the recommended hardware and software components for building repeatable, multitiered architectures.