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.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. last week signed a definitive agreement to buy TruLogica, a Dallas-based provider of identity management software. HP plans to integrate the privately owned company's ID management technology into its OpenView Select Access software to form "a complete federated identity management offering."
Telelogic, expanding quickly beyond its embedded systems roots, plans to add C++ and Java support to tools for modeling, requirements and development, according to Per Blysa, vice president of product management for the company's Tau developer tools.
A small reflection on the slipping ship dates of Visual Studio .NET "Whidbey"
and SQL Server "Yukon".
Watching the detectives may be fun on TV, but human detection is "not very productive" when it comes to stopping retail theft, according to Steve Winningham, senior vice president of IT at Virgin Entertainment. He explained how his company uses technology to help catch employees stealing from the 23 Virgin Megastores in the U.S.
The Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization has lent a hand to Web services architects and developers looking for security solutions with the release of a new report that identifies potential threats and outlines countermeasures based on common scenarios.
The latest release of the Nexaweb Platform, due this week from Cambridge, Mass.-based Nexaweb Technologies, comes with Nexaweb Studio, a visual RAD environment that is coupled with a full implementation of the Eclipse IDE.
Programmers Report spoke recently with Dick Berry, an IBM distinguished engineer working on that holiest of Holy Grails: ease of use.
The Java Community Process is refreshingly low-key compared to much of the software industry, so it was probably not surprising that there was very little hoopla this past week when JavaServer Faces (JSF) specification 1.0 won approval from its members.
The civil antitrust lawsuit filed last week by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in U.S. District Court in San Francisco to block Oracle Corp.'s $9.4 billion takeover bid for PeopleSoft drew responses from a number of quarters last week. Perhaps most surprising was the announcement by chief rival SAP that it agrees with Oracle.
In which the intrepid reporter undertakes a few weeks of development using the .NET
Compact Framework, and lives to tell of it.
Windows 2003 and Office 2003 offer a seductively elegant way to handle digital
rights management. But alas, the platform is just too open for this to be
effective.
Mainframe change management software expert Serena Software Inc. moved this
week to buy longtime distributed software configuration software maker Merant.
IBM has called on Java creator Sun Microsystems to join an effort to turn its proprietary Java code over to the open-source community.
A recent Forrester Consulting study chartered by Compuware Corp., Farmington Hills, Mich., reveals that many IT organizations are still reactive rather than proactive in solving performance problems.