Precise i3 Version 6 claims to reduce resolution time to mere minutes.
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 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 Inc. unveils a new high-end search product in its new Google Search Appliance line.
''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.''
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 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.
Items of interest from the around the software industry
Web services needs a "killer app" to move beyond internal integration, argues Nelson Carbonell.
Improved software test automation tools and processes can help management get "more for less."
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.
A combination of data mining and XML is the key to taking unstructured data from Web bulletin boards and e-mails and providing business users with what Intelliseek's Sundar Kadayam calls ''nuggets of information."
Linux is becoming a strong operating system choice among corporate server buyers, said some analysts, and chipmakers are looking to capitalize on the trend. Consequently, the Linux community can play an important role in driving the growth of 64-bit systems.
Business rules are becoming dynamic, so dynamic that they are moving out of IT and over to the business side of corporations, contends Jim Sinur, vice president and research director at Gartner.
Telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel Corp. may be cutting its worldwide workforce by 20,000 jobs, but executives said the firm has no intention of cutting plans to establish seven new third-generation (3G) labs in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe at several million dollars each.
There appears to be a light turning on at the end of the IT spending tunnel, according to a survey undertaken this summer by Aberdeen Group, a Boston-based consulting firm.
RadView is designing its next generation of Web application testing tools with the newly minted QA professional in mind.
It is time to move beyond the pre-Web services model for security systems, contends Kerry Champion, president of Westbridge Technology Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up builder of XML firewalls.
DataDirect Technologies has come up with what it claims is an especially efficient way of transforming data between relational and XML formats.
In recent years in U.S. businesses, application development has become far more effective, and a lot less expensive, said Robert Solon, research director at the Gartner Measurement practice.