Application Development Trends' News


Team management key to development success

Trusting your development team to do their jobs, speaking the same language as your team and backing up your team are key attributes for managing software development efforts, according to a panel discussion at the XML and Web Services One Conference held last week in Boston.

Cisco draws a line in the SAN

Cisco Systems has finally made its long expected move into the burgeoning storage area network (SAN) market with the recent announcement of a definitive agreement to acquire privately held data storage equipment maker Andiamo Systems Inc.

XML for business-line data digging

DataWatch is betting that small- to medium-sized businesses are ready to tackle XML projects. --Aug.30

Managing XML 'services creep'

Swingtide Inc. is developing applications to deal with problems such as 'XML service creep.'

Client/Web aims to boost I-performance

Curl Corp. offers a 'client/Web' solution that focuses on speeding up client-side processing.

Tivoli sells developers on autonomic computing

As part of its new focus on developers, Tivoli has started opening up its APIs to developers.

Fujitsu marries COBOL and Linux

Last week, Fujitsu unveiled Linux implementations of its mainstay COBOL products.

Inmon boosts dynamic analysis concept

Sagent Technology Inc., Mountain View, Calif., last week brought out a set of adaptive project mart tools dubbed Enterprise Information Integration (EII).

Pretty good news from PGP

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 launches "ETL lite" tool

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.

Report writer adds Java support

Crystal Decisions Inc. this week reached out to the Java developer community with the unveiling of a new version of its reporting software.

Eclipse to fund university research

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.

Bringing analytics to the corporate masses

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.

Serious CRM results from Web services games

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.

Bridging the BizTalk-Web services divide

Montreal-based Codagen Technologies Corp. has brought out a tool that company officials said can quickly bridge the gap between BizTalk and Web services.

IBM boosts VA Software push

VA Software just inked a deal with IBM that could better position the company as an enterprise player in the software development market.

Heavy hitters crowd onto the open-source bandwagon

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.

Fisch named Iona COO

Iona Technologies turned to outsider and veteran technology executive Steve Tisch to take over as chief operating officer.

Standardizing the Penguin

Three of the leading Linux distros became Linux Standards Base (LSB) certified last week, according to the Free Standards Group.