Microsoft has finally anted up on the long anticipated and often postponed
release of its new customer relationship management software for small- and
mid-sized businesses.
Testing and verifying trading partner connections, a time-consuming process, has become another B2B bottleneck, according to Phil Robinson, strategic accounts manager at Drake Certivo Inc.
Cisco Systems is suing a Chinese technology company for allegedly stealing its software, a move officials say is the first of its kind for Cisco.
Software testing is a mindset, says author Louise Tamres. In her more than 16 years of consulting work, including stints for the Dept. of Defense and General Motors, she has applied specific techniques to assure the quality of the end product. In "Introducing Software Testing," her recent book for newcomers to software testing, Tamres tells readers how to apply truly critical thinking to this key process. Programmers Report recently spoke with Tamres about the new book.
David Gelernter's Mirror Worlds Technologies Inc. recently announced the beta version of software aimed at vastly improving the end user's computer experience. Under development since Mirror Worlds was formed in 1997, and now available free for download, Scopeware Vision Professional is a visual information management system that resides above the OS and native file system, allowing users to use quick keyword searches to find "stuff."
IBM opened its annual Lotusphere Conference in Orlando, Fla., today with the unveiling of a new version of the WebSphere Portal software that adds a so-called portal collaboration center built by engineers at the firm's Lotus Development Corp. unit.
Even as Linux makes substantial inroads on the server side, observers ask if it will ever play a big role on client systems. While administrative software helpings were most plentiful on the plates at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo last week in New York City, client-side developments were somewhat sparse.
Sun Microsystems Inc. (http://www.sun.com) today disclosed plans to bundle a new version of the Describe UML modeling tool from Embarcadero Technologies (http://www.embarcadero.com) with the SunONE Studio Integrated Development Environment.
IBM this week used the LinuxWorld stage to unveil a new implementation of its mainstay relational database -- DB2 for Linux Clustering.
Altova Inc., Beverly Mass., has unveiled a set of tools aimed at delivering XML technology to DBAs at Oracle sites.
The SCO Group this week created a new business division dubbed SCOsource to manage the licensing of its Unix intellectual property assets and hired famed Microsoft prosecutor David
Boies to defend those assets.
The current "tough economy" will spur greater deployment of Web services for
integration inside and outside the firewall, moves that will lead to a revival of much maligned B2B efforts, predicts Jeff Tonkel in his first week as president and CEO of Infravio Inc.
Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. this week signed an agreement aimed at boosting the visibility of both firms in the quickly emerging network attached storage (NAS) business.
Sun Microsystems last week began shipping Version 6.0 of its SunONE Identity Server, said to be one of the first commercially available ID servers based on Liberty Alliance Project specifications for federated network identity.
Open-source software distributor Lindows.com is reaching out to schools with an unlimited licensing offer.
While XML is primarily a software technology, DataPower Technology Inc. offers a vision of hardware for processing XML, especially in
Web services applications.
Sybase Inc. has been offering a
mini-warehouse solution -- Industry Warehouse Studio -- to help customers jumpstart the design and development of their enterprise analytic applications.
Doug Ring, vice president of eBusiness technology at Geac Enterprise Solutions, sees a future for global Web services where mobile devices
link to a variety of applications as part of as yet-unimagined business models. But that's in the future. Right now, the focus in a conservative economic climate is on nitty-gritty business chores.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and IBM disclosed last week that they would be
collaborating on the development of new processing technologies for future
high-performance products.
Macromedia Inc. has announced the immediate
availability of Macromedia JRun 4 for Mac OS X, a J2EE-compatible application server.