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.
Eleven vendors teamed up with the U.S. General Service Administration (GSA) E-Gov E-Authentication Initiative to demonstrate the interoperability of the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) at the recent RSA Conference 2004 in San Francisco.
As far as retired U.S. Air Force General John Gordon is concerned, the blame for the sorry state of software security lies with developers.
There's more software available in source code form than ever before. Is this
improving the development process any?
Patricia C. Sueltz this week resigned her post as EVP of the Sun Services Group at Sun Microsystems to join CRM software maker Salesforce.com as president of marketing, technology and systems.
The U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) moved today to block database and application software giant Oracle Corp.'s bid to buy application provider PeopleSoft Inc.
Bill Gates' announcements about his company's ongoing efforts to improve the security of its world-dominating operating system were greeted warmly by the record crowd at RAS this week but also as criticized by executives at rivals like Sun Microsystems.
Windows XP Service Pack 2 is coming. Are you ready to rewrite your
applications...again?
With Korea-based industrial conglomerate Hyosung's adoption of its LiveArchive product, Campbell, Calif.-based OuterBay has widely extended the global reach of its application data management software.
As germinating OMG standards for legacy transformation continue to gain attention, Relativity Technologies is promoting its platform for application modernization and management, and opening up its software to various third parties.
Sybase insists that tools play a key role in its strategy to "unwire the enterprise."
Many programmers feel that the Rational Unified Process (RUP) is too rigid and structured for small development projects. Proponents of agile and extreme programming have similar concerns. To answer these criticisms, we speak with Gary Pollice and Liz Augustine, two authors of the recently released book "Software Development for Small Teams: A RUP-Centric Approach."
Intel CEO Craig Barrett confirmed widespread expectations that his company would provide 64-bit extensions for Intel's high-end 32-bit Xeon processors as early as next quarter.
Java programmers looking for the next wave in software development would do well to investigate opportunities for building portal applications, suggests Brent Ruggles, curriculum architect for WebSphere portal education at IBM.