Developing Windows software as a non-administrative user seems like a sensible
idea...until you really think about it.
Actuate Corp. is basing its business on the belief that enterprise reporting app platforms must provide business information to users of varying skill and interest levels -- an
idea that conflicts with the traditional belief that such tools are strictly for management types.
Tim Berners-Lee -- inventor of the World Wide Web as well as founder and
director of the W3C, which established the XML standard -- will become a Knight
Commander, Order of the British Empire.
Ascential Software Corp. has placed a big bet on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). And Bob
Zurek, the firm's vice president of advanced technologies and product management, contends that the bet is already beginning to pay off.
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs kicked off this week's Macworld Conference with a bit of nostalgia on the 1984 launch of the Macintosh computer and talked about his company's expansion into online music, digital media editing software
and supercomputing.
Seeking to expand the ranks of Java programmers, BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, Calif., and Compuware Corp., Detroit, last month disclosed plans to integrate their respective Java development toolsets.
Perhaps the greatest change in development in recent years has been the expansion of the application user community via the World Wide Web. Development targets quite usually today are wide-area network targets. And networks with seeming 'bandwidth to burn' can get quite stingy when least expected.
Your career is your responsibility. What are you going to do about it this year?
According to officials from BluePhoenix Solutions and Cook Systems, the process they call Cobol
Regeneration can yield applications that are more reusable, easier to maintain and more responsive to accommodating new business processes.
Thanks to the growing popularity of .NET, you can now choose among a wide variety of free and commercial tools to automate the build process for your .NET applications. Here's a quick roundup of the contenders.
A player early to stake out the fast portal development space was Bowstreet. The company recently updated its offerings with Bowstreet Portlet Factory for WebSphere Version 5.7.
We all know the next version of SQL Server is on the way. But do you know what
you should be doing to prepare for it?
Akamai Technologies Inc. and IBM have started
shipping the fruits of a partnership that called for the building of software to make it easier to deploy J2EE Web apps built on IBM's WebSphere across Akamai's global computing platform.
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?