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.
JBuilder, the Java IDE from Borland Software Corp., was used to develop the Collaborative Information Portal (CIP) that is handling data downloads from the Mars Exploration Rover mission.
Microsoft has released a preview of the upcoming changes to InfoPath 2003. It
would be nice if they'd take some time to review their marketing message as
well.
A lot of ink has been spilled over software patents. That won't stop me from
spilling a bit of my own, though.
The Semantic Web, an extension of the World Wide Web, is becoming a reality with standards that are being implemented in and applications by IBM, Boeing, Adobe and others, according to Eric Miller of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
PalmSource, the software spin-off of PDA maker palmOne Inc., last week unveiled an updated version of its operating system designed for the growing "smart" mobile phones market.
Long-time business rules and process management software maker Pegasystems Inc. released its first Java-based platform earlier this month. PegaRules Process Commander V4 supports XML and browser-based development, and JSR-94 and JSR-168 portal plug-in support is also available.