Application Development Trends' News


Joint effort to ease Oracle app migrations

Ascential Software Corp., Westboro, Mass., and Top Team Inc., San Mateo, Calif., will use the Oracle user group stage in San Francisco next month to unveil a joint solution aimed at easing corporate migrations to the Oracle 11i database and applications suite.

Pervasive on replication trail

Pervasive Software has released a candidate edition of Pervasive.SQL Version 8 for public testing.

Microsoft exec unwraps Jupiter plan

Microsoft officials have unveiled Jupiter, code name for the company's vision for an "IT ecosystem of information" based on XML Web services.

Users crave info on Microsoft's Titanium

Attendees at last week's Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC 2002) in Anaheim, Calif., pushed the Redmond, Wash., software giant for as much information as possible on Titanium, the code name for the next version of Microsoft Exchange Server that's slated to ship next year.

Borland execs outline Starbase plans

The addition of Starbase will add SCM functionality to Borland's development tool offerings and will help to extend the firm's coverage of the application development life cycle.

Wi-Fi 802.11a testing plan finally set

The Wi-Fi Alliance (formerly known as WECA) discloses its plans for the long-awaited certification testing process of 802.11a products for Wi-Fi interoperability.

Telelogic promotes UML 2.0-savvy products

Although UML 2.0 is still on the drawing board, some players are ready to launch software that helps designers to work to the upcoming standard.

AdventNet pursues more manageable Java

AdventNet Inc. seeks to further the cause of Java Management Extensions by releasing a software framework that allows developers to better customize the management of their apps.

Web services vulnerable to namespaces

Namespaces are an Achilles' heel that leaves Web services vulnerable to hackers, says Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO at security software provider KaVaDo Inc.

Precise pushes correlation solution forward

Precise i3 Version 6 claims to reduce resolution time to mere minutes.

Wireless Web XML slow to take hold

Lack of a unified XML standard for wireless Web services may be holding back growth in the consumer sector, says Ken Waln, CTO at Santa Clara, Calif.-based Edify Corp.

Borland buys Starbase for $24 million

Borland said it intended to buy software lifecycle tool provider Starbase for $24 million in cash, and to provide bridge financing so Starbase can fund operations until the transaction is completed. -Oct 9

Google boosts corporate search offerings

Google Inc. unveils a new high-end search product in its new Google Search Appliance line.

NASA technology protects mainframes

''Every year, organizations spend millions of dollars on intrusion-detection products to minimize risk to their distributed networks, which contain approximately 15% of business-critical data,'' said Ronn H. Bailey, president of Vanguard Integrity Professionals. ''But they overlook the mainframe ... the most critical data storage device.''

Aligning IT and business goals

Mercury Interactive's Zohar Gilad talks about his firm's Business Technology Optimization approach that gets both sides of the "technology divide" speaking the same language.

eXcelon exclaims XSLT tool, XIS updates

eXcelon has released version 4.5 of its Stylus Studio XSLT IDE that allows developers to work in a WYSIWYG environment to convert HTML pages to XSLT style sheets.

In brief: Wadhwani resigns from i2 board; IBM and Red Hat in alliance, and more

Items of interest from the around the software industry

Interaction the killer app for Web services

Web services needs a "killer app" to move beyond internal integration, argues Nelson Carbonell.

Tools tip from Boston test conference

Improved software test automation tools and processes can help management get "more for less."

BEA, TogetherSoft forge pact for Workshop plug-in

As a step in its plan to make J2EE accessible to a greater number of developers, BEA Systems is making a popular visual Java modeling tool from TogetherSoft Corp. available as a plug-in for the WebLogic Workshop development platform.