Formed in June for the express purpose of marketing Pretty Good Privacy -- the public-key encryption software better known as PGP -- PGP Corp. completed its acquisition of the PGP Desktop and Wireless encryption product lines from Network Associates in July.
Embarcadero Technologies upgrades DT/Studio; targets companies looking for advanced ETL functionality at a lower price point and with less complexity than more established products.
Crystal Decisions Inc. this week reached
out to the Java developer community with the unveiling of a new version of its
reporting software.
The Eclipse consortium moved this week to expand on earlier IBM efforts with the creation of the Eclipse Technology Project, an open-source project that supports research, education and engineering initiatives undertaken to integrate multiple computing technologies using the so-called Eclipse Platform.
Many organizations yearning to get their feet wet with custom analytic applications are running into problems caused by a lack of necessary Java
and JavaScript resources. That problem led analytics software company Alphablox Corp. to take a do-it-yourself (or, more accurately, a "let-them-do-it-themselves") approach with the latest version of its Alphablox development platform, which works with multiple vendors' application servers to create J2EE-based analytic
applications.
XML, SOAP, UDDI and WSDL are not generally associated with fun and games, but a Los Angeles-based company named YaYa has developed an
application that combines play and Web services with serious CRM results.
Montreal-based Codagen Technologies Corp. has brought out a tool that company officials said can quickly bridge the gap between BizTalk and Web services.
VA Software just inked a deal with IBM that could better position the company as an enterprise player in the software development market.
Last week's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo saw a pronounced increase in the presence of major hardware and software makers, and served as background for a number of important industry announcements.
Iona Technologies turned to outsider and veteran technology executive Steve Tisch to take over as chief operating officer.
Three of the leading Linux distros became Linux Standards Base (LSB) certified last week, according to the Free Standards Group.
Sybase announces the first phase of the beta
version of PowerBuilder 9.0 and an open application server with J2EE 1.3
compatibility.
Serena Software has added XML Services to the latest release of its mainframe change management product.
IBM, Microsoft and BEA jointly announce three proposed specifications for defining, creating and connecting multiple business processes in a Web services environment.
Borland has unveiled Borland Delphi 7 Studio, a cross-platform rapid application development environment for the Windows platform.
Sybase Inc. has introduced Borland JBuilder 7 Enterprise--Sybase Edition, a Java development solution that provides integration of application development life-cycle elements.
Autonomy will provide advanced enterprise information retrieval capabilities for the ATG Search Module, a key component of ATG6.
Twenty-six former NeuVis employees have joined Rational and will play a key
role in Rational's strategy to help its enterprise IT customers build business
applications.
Embedded systems developers appear to be implementing Java Virtual Machines in increasing numbers, according to a survey completed
last month by Evans Data Corp.
Since its failed plan to merge with Linux distro TurboLinux earlier this
year, San Francisco-based Linux services provider Linuxcare Inc. has been
quietly regrouping and aiming its efforts toward last week's unveiling of a new
tool for the provisioning and configuration of large-scale Linux deployments on
mainframe systems.