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.
In his opening keynote at last week's Intel Developer Forum, Intel president Paul Otellini told a packed auditorium at the San Jose Convention Center that his company plans to continue boosting chip performance and adding features despite the downturn in PC sales.
Corel Corp. previewed its forthcoming Tablet PC application, Corel Grafigo, at the annual Seybold San Francisco conference last week.
XML database maker Ipedo continues its move into the realm of data integration with its recently released Ipedo XML Views product.
Amazon.com has moved to extend its Tibco Rendezvouse messaging software into the Java world by using Java framework and driver technology from SpiritSoft.
Miscellaneous news from the software industry.
The votes are in and the ebXML Messaging Service Specification 2.0 (ebMS 2.0) has won the approval of OASIS members to become the non-profit consortium's newest e-business standard.
The 64-bit Itanium microprocessor from Intel Corp. has received another boost with Compuware's unveiling of the DevPartner 64 debugging and automated error-detection toolset for Windows XP-based systems running on Itanium-based hardware.
Neon and Software AG have entered into a marketing agreement that may help to speed data access performance for Adabas, as well as other mainframe data and transaction sources.