At the March 2004 SD West Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., McCabe introduced a new Java-enabled version of its TRUEchange client, which is designed to meet the evolving needs of development managers.
Mobile computing looms as the next domain for Microsoft to try and conquer. The company unveiled the latest upgrade to its platform for mobile applications at its third annual Mobile Developer Conference (MDC)
SAP has moved in recent years to improve the flexibility of its integration architecture. Its most recent step was to launch the NetWeaver integration platform infrastructure.
Swedish open-source database maker MySQL AB plans to release a new clustered database product with high-availability support.
Goodbye perpetual licenses –- hello subs!
How will the for-profit software industry fair if the open-source model continues to proliferate? According to Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Jim Gray, it might not survive.
"Six Sigma" is a term often bandied about in software development circles lately, but few developers know what it really means.
Sun says it's going to start offering software to governments at attractive
per-citizen pricing terms. Let's do the math.
Software development has become a core business process that drives both innovation and productivity, and there's not much hope for companies that fail to recognize that fact, according to IBM's Grady Booch.
Oracle announced this past week that its Java developer preview of the Oracle Application Server passed Sun's Compatibility Test Suite (CTS) for J2EE 1.4.
Sometimes the biggest innovations come from software that you really
don't want to run.
Embedded systems mainstay Wind River is telling all and sundry that it is set in a new direction with a refocused, aggressive Linux strategy.
ANTs Software Inc., a Burlingame, Calif.-based developer of SQL database management systems, recently announced availability of Version 2.2 of its ANTs Data Server.
At PartnerWorld 2004 in Las Vegas, IBM increased its effort to join with third parties to attack the small- and medium-sized business (SMB) market.
Typical of XML evolution was a recent conversation with Russ Kliman, director, platform strategies, who discussed the development of the Financial Wellness Platform at SEI Investments Inc.
Chris Sukornyk has an answer to the question "Is there any practical application for the W3C Semantic Web concept?"
Bringing relational data into XML formats is a major task for many developers these days. XML has clear benefits as a lingua franca for integration, but it must co-exist with a well-established body of relational DB know-how.
A new version of the Java Community Process (JCP), designed to make developing Java standards more efficient and open to public input, was unveiled recently by the JCP Program Management Office and Executive Committees.
A few notes of possible interest to application developers.