Pervasive Software has released a candidate edition of Pervasive.SQL Version 8 for public testing.
Microsoft officials have unveiled Jupiter, code name for the company's vision for an "IT ecosystem of information" based on XML Web services.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Namespaces are an Achilles' heel that leaves Web services vulnerable to hackers, says Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO at security software provider KaVaDo Inc.
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."