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.
The good news, according to the recently completed annual IT workforce study by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is that the number of IT layoffs has dropped substantially over the past year.
The Multimedia Messaging System (MMS) wireless format driven by Nokia and supported by several top communications firms has quickly captured the attention of wireless developers worldwide, according to a survey of 1,000 developers by Evans Data Corp., Santa Cruz, Calif.
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy last week expanded on his company's recently announced plans to sell Linux-based PCs during a keynote address at the company's SunNetwork 2002 conference.
Bosak, who holds the title of Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, hopes the Universal Business Language (UBL) will someday unify the various business electronic commerce "dialects" of XML.
Peregrine Systems agreed to sell the assets of its Remedy help center software group to BMC Software for $350 million. At the same time, Peregrine’s CEO Gary Greenfield announced that Peregrine filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. -Sept. 23
Seeking to bring Web services integration to 'last-mile' desktop applications such as expense reporting, Boston-based Nobilis Software Inc. has unveiled Nobilis Ci, described as a low-cost process manager for Microsoft Office
applications.
Iona Technologies has brought out the Orbix E2A Web Services Integration Platform XMLBus 5.4 to help bridge the gap between CORBA data and Web services.
Content management system supplier Arbortext Inc. has turned to vertical markets in an effort to make its way through uncertain economic times.
Analysts from Gartner Inc. say IT development groups should be implementing Web services pilot programs by 2003 despite the flagging economy.
InterSystems Corp. releases Cache 5, which officials say adds better support for real-time analytics in transaction processing environments.
IBM today moved to boost Web services security with the unveiling of a set of tools that officials said can secure applications built using multiple technologies.
In the wrap-up presentation of last week's Intel Developer Forum, Intel announced plans for optical networking, tunable lasers, dual processor chips, and more.