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.
The non-profit HR-XML Consortium has updated its data interchange standard for employee benefits enrollment in HRIS systems to accommodate more insurance carriers and third-party benefits administrators.
It is probably
easier for Red Sox and Yankee fans to find common ground than it is for adherents to Java or .NET.
Two organizations developing standards for XML and Web services are joining larger standards bodies to advance their technology.
OEM deals have gained in significance for application server maker BEA
Systems since it first brought the WebLogic server on the scene.
Developers can now use Microsoft .NET to build applications linking to the popular Apache Web server, according to San Francisco-based Covalent Technologies Inc., which markets Apache 2.0 as part of its Enterprise Ready Server.
Enterprise applications vendor J.D. Edwards is putting a new twist on application performance management by working to optimize an application while it's in development rather than in a production environment.
The proliferation of Wireless LANs (WLANs) will add $2.8 billion to the so-called third generation (3G) mobile data market by 2005, complementing rather than threatening the future of that market, concluded UMTS Forum in a report dubbed "Impact & Opportunity: Public Wireless LANs and 3G Business Revenues."
The future of one of the key building blocks of Web services applications has been placed in the hands of an international standards body.
IBM moved to strengthen its consulting business with the purchase of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ global business consulting and technology services unit. -July 31
Lost in the hoopla of the .NET lovefest in Redmond last week was the unveiling a technology that Microsoft officials promise can provide IT developers the ability to more easily integrate applications built on the .NET framework with Oracle databases.
Sprint has unveiled a new strategy calling for partnering with system integrators and hardware manufacturers to voice-enable corporate applications to be hosted on the Sprint telecommunications network.
Industry maven Ahmar Abbas sees grid computing, the collaborative, network-based model that enables the sharing of data and computing cycles among many processors, as a new paradigm that could dramatically alter the IT industry's competitive landscape.