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.
Oracle Corp. last week unveiled the first production release of the latest version of its Java and Web services development environment, Oracle JDeveloper 10g.
Can't we all just decide what a Windows application is supposed to look like
once and for all?
The killer apps for radio frequency identification (RFID) will be written by coders who know their business, according to Dushyant Pandya, director of solutions at Tibco Software Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based integration software vendor.
Attention has focused of late on how open-source Linux is displacing Solaris, Windows NT and other OSs. Effects are being felt in the database world as well, as MySQL especially seems to be displacing other DBs and gaining open-source traction.
Since 1996, security guru Dr. Gary McGraw has been admonishing software developers to consider threats and vulnerabilities early in the development cycle. For attackers, it's all about getting to exploitable code, McGraw believes, which ultimately puts the security onus on programmers.
The continuing search for a gentler Java includes software vendors seeking to make it easier for IT shops still working with mainframes and green screen terminals to move into the new era of Web-based applications with GUI interfaces.
When the founders of Sonic Software Corp. got their hands on the Java Message Service (JMS) specification in 1999, they saw an opportunity to steal a march on new application server vendors that would sooner or later find a need for standard messaging middleware. The company is still in the lead, contends Sonic CTO Gordon Van Huizen.
With small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) firmly in their sights, Oracle Corp. and Dell Inc. disclosed details of a deal that gives Dell exclusive rights to deliver Oracle's Standard Edition One database pre-installed on its low-end PowerEdge 2600 and 2650 servers running on Linux and Windows.
In which the columnist contemplates the coming changes to his core development
process.
At the beginning of this year, IBM veteran Tom Rosamilia was named vice president, worldwide data management and general manager of the Silicon Valley Laboratory (SVL). Rosamilia sees ways that lessons learned in developing MQ Series, CICS and other IBM legacy technology can be applied to the J2EE platform.
Microsoft creates an internal RFID group, called the Microsoft Radio Frequency Identification Council, whose purpose is to "bring together major partners delivering RFID solutions on the Microsoft platform."
Microsoft's employees aren't the only ones doing support for Microsoft products
these days.