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.
Brunswick Corp., Vernon Hills, Ill., is probably best known as a maker of bowling and billiards equipment, but according to JT Smith, the firm's director of technology, Brunswick also develops open-source Web services integration products.
It looks like the global market for Wi-Fi equipment and services is going to grow like crabgrass in the next five years. However, when it comes to hotspot propagation, North America's side of the fence probably won't be the greenest.
Snapbridge Software, an XML technology start-up based in San Diego, is set to unveil a drag-and-drop tool for XML and non-XML data federation at the XML Conference and Exposition in Philadelphia next week.
The U.S. software industry lost 150,000 jobs last year, according to the Cyberstates 2003 report released last week by the American Electronics
Association (AeA).
Choosing a virtual machine environment is an example of the classic tradeoff
between price and features. But Microsoft's loss-leader pricing will give it a
leg up for many developers.
The Reactivity 2300 Series XML Firewall is said to take security code out of the layer of application code and out of the hands of developers.
Macromedia Inc. has unveiled Macromedia Flex, a
presentation server and application framework for developers to use in creating rich, but not fat, Internet applications.
The Object Management Group’s (OMG) Legacy Transformation PSIG plans to release a set of standards for transforming legacy software.
Carly Fiorina outlines her views on IT's future and HP's role in shaping it.
Tomorrow, longtime rivals IBM and BEA will publish three new jointly developed Java specifications designed to increase application
portability across both of their app server offerings.
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