The beginning of 2003 marks ''the end of the Native XML Data [NXD] store market as we know it,'' proclaims Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink, LLC, a Waltham, Mass.-based analyst firm specializing in XML.
The Eclipse standards consortium has launched an effort to allow the integration of testing and other automated software quality tools from multiple vendors.
Seeking to push the least-used component of Web services from its current status as stagnating standard to a future of active deployment, Provo,
Utah-based Novell Inc. this week began distributing a free UDDI server download.
An eight-month project called for Volvo IT consultants to take 300,000 entries in multiple customer databases and create a single database for CRM and business intelligence applications.
According to Thomas Siebel, chairman and CEO at Siebel Systems, the notion that companies must integrate their IT infrastructures so thoroughly that management has instant, accurate, up-to-the-second information at its fingertips anytime,
anywhere, is really a model of corporate survival.
In an effort to give the market for its namesake wireless technology a shot in the arm, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group unveiled a
new initiative last week aimed at ensuring interoperability among Bluetooth-enabled devices.
BEA has disclosed a strategic alliance with ComponentSource.
After more than two years of tugs and tweaks, the OASIS interoperability standards consortium last week ratified the ebXML Collaboration Protocol Profile and Agreement as an OASIS open standard.
Though the need is huge, Web services access to mainframe data streams remains pretty much non-existent, according to Mark Vanston, program director at the Stamford, Conn.-based Meta Group's Enterprise Data Center Strategies service.
Intel Corp. last week made good on its promise to invest $150 million in Wi-Fi technology. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker disclosed that it has joined forces with IBM, AT&T, and investment concerns Apax Partners and 3i to form open-access Wi-Fi company Cometa Networks. Financial details weren't immediately disclosed.
IBM today entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rational Software for about $2.1 billion in cash. -- December 6
SCO Group has unveiled Version 7.1.3 of its UnixWare operating system software.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center is creating a "multi-agency" hub that will gather information from a variety of government sources for "futuristic" Web services applications.
OASIS this week ratified a new version of the ebXML-based standard used to define e-business partners' technical capabilities and agreements, according to officials at the Boston-based standards organization.
Psion Teklogix has signed an OEM agreement to integrate security software from Certicom Systems into its Netpad line of Windows CE .NET-based handheld computers.
A summary of happenings around the industry.
As the number of available Ada developers continues to dwindle, the language is staging something of a small comeback, according to software industry observers.
In an effort to discourage its customers from jumping onto the open-source bandwagon, Microsoft unveiled plans last week for a new licensing option. Scheduled to launch early next year, the Open Value plan will allow small and medium-sized customers (those with between five and 500 PCs) to spread payments over a period of three years for purchases of software products such as the Windows OS and MS Office.
Sun Microsystems is contributing the XML file format specification utilized in the OpenOffice.org 1.0 project to a new technical committee recently formed by the OASIS standards body. The new committee (called the OASIS Open Office XML Format Technical Committee) was formed to ''advance an open, XML-based file format spec for office applications.''