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.
Oracle Corp. formally unveiled a new product/services initiative last week, along with what amounts to what some observers call a new product category built to more easily adjust to changing retail technology needs.
Macromedia is shipping Flex, its much-anticipated presentation server and application framework for enterprise developers. The product has been in beta since November 2003 and began shipping at the end of March 2004.
The surprise announcement last week of an agreement between arch-rivals Sun Microsystems and Microsoft Corp. to settle their long-running legal dispute seems to herald a new era of cooperation and enhanced interoperability between widely implemented technologies
Although the Apple Mac platform was long ago counted out by a lot of corporate IT managers, it has morphed and continues to find adherents -- the graphic arts in particular have persisted as a major stronghold. And the Mac platform may even be thriving again in the science sector where it once held some dominance on the desktop.
Borland last week began shipping the latest version of its requirements management tool, CaliberRM 6.0. Part of Borland's application life-cycle management portfolio, CaliberRM is designed to help software development teams align application changes to an organization's business needs, said Borland product manager David Walker.
Microsoft just released some software under a legitimate open source license.
Has the company lost its collective mind, or is this just more good business?
Steve Ballmer, CEO at Microsoft Corp., and Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO at Sun Microsystems Inc., agreed to bury the hatchet after many years of hostility. This ushers in a new era of cooperation with enhanced interoperability between software products,
It was widely reported recently that Bill Gates thinks hardware will be
practically free in 10 years. What does that mean to us as developers?
IBM has agreed to acquire privately held Candle Corp., a longstanding force in mainframe and distributed systems management software for an undisclosed sum.
The sensor network, already emerging from applications of RFID chips, will transform computing and life as we know it by 2014, predicts Gartner fellow Tom Austin.
In an industry with no shortage of acronyms, Gartner is touting a new one, SOBA, or Service-Oriented Business Applications.