Developers as well as business users with little XML knowledge or experience can view samples of how to 'draw' Web services applications at a new Web site launched this month by SmartDraw.com
Believing that business rules technology was missing the point by having programmers set up the business rules, Corticon Technologies has decided to approach business rules from a business analyst perspective.
Making applications based on the old Pick Systems platform available as Web services via Microsoft .NET is the goal of a new product under development at Raining Data Corp.
EMC this week continued its blitzkrieg move into the software business, signing a definitive agreement to acquire Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware Inc. in a cash transaction valued at approximately $635 million.
Microsoft is set to update its modeling arsenal with software now known as "Whitehorse." It is oriented for "design for operations," allowing users to specify logical infrastructure
requirements early in the development process, and to verify application settings against logical infrastructure.
Microsoft-bashing may be fashionable - but is the tool really to blame for poor
communications skills?
Last week's Bluetooth Americas 2003 conference brought together some of the top players in the short-range wireless market to discuss the future of their industry. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) focused much of its attention on Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH), a new feature of Core Specification Version 1.2.
The Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization last week released its Sample Application 1.0, a set of use cases, usage scenarios and technical architecture intended to help define best practices for using the WS-I's Basic Profile 1.0, and to offer Web services developers some real-world examples to help with their own projects.
Two new publications from the Patterns & Practices group tackle .NET-J2EE
interoperability and performance issues.
IBM has disclosed plans to partner with i-flex solutions, a company based in India that offers financial application software to banks internationally. The move displays IBM's continuing focus on vertical solutions, demonstrated in a recent restructuring of the organization's sales portfolio.
Performance monitoring for Microsoft's MapPoint Web services is an early application of Computer Associates' (CA's) Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) product announced this week.
The new era of "complex, real-world XML Web service" is marked by Computer
Associates' (CA's) announcement this week of general availability for its Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) product, argues DataPower CTO Eugene Kuznetsov.
Web application security software vendor Sanctum Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., has announced a partnership with Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Mercury Interactive Corp. to integrate security testing tools into the QA environment.
Sun cited technical and organizational differences over the use of its own open source IDE framework, NetBeans, among its reasons for opting out of the Eclipse project.
Telelogic is now positioned to further spread Synergy, the company's task-based CM tool, as it is newly available in an embedded version for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.
According to Steve Nye, general manager of the Building Broadband Solutions unit of Cisco Systems, adoption of wireless LAN (WLAN) technologies has been faster on the consumer side than in the enterprise because of concerns about
security, deployment complexity and management, as well as a general perception that the return on investment (ROI) in the technology is low.
IBM Corp. disclosed last week plans to reorganize its $13.1 billion software business. The new strategy shifts the focus of the company's sales, marketing and development efforts away from its five product brands to an approach that
emphasizes cross-brand application packages targeted at a dozen vertical industry categories.
Next year we'll have managed code tightly integrated with enterprise-level
databases. But will the tools be ready?
Progress Software Corp. continued to broaden its product portfolio today by agreeing to acquire ODBC and JDBC data-access toolmaker DataDirect Technologies for $88 million in cash.
The next version of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET offers a plethora of new features to make the developer's life easier. But remember: it's not shipping until next year, so don't plan on using it immediately.