Application Development Trends' News


BroadVision bets on portals

BroadVision's latest release marks its move from personalization and point tools to a broader portal offering. -May 21

At long last an Apple server

Humility descended on Steve Jobs one day in May. The occasion? A roll out of a belated Apple server market offering. - May 21

Borland JBuilder improves EJB development

Borland Software Corp introduced JBuilder 7 at Borland's BorCon 2002 developer conference in Anaheim, Calif. The product brings a number of useful enterprise development capabilities to the Java world. -May 20

VA Software forges ahead with tool suite update

VA Software Corp. has unveiled SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.1, an updated version of its collaborative software development platform. Upgrades to the software are intended to better position SourceForge for enterprise implementation. -May 17

What works for e-government

The government's efforts to go online are troubled, but there are some good signs, according to Gartner. -May 17

Ford storage czar sees provisioning gains

"Chaos costs money," said Al McPhee of Ford, "process can reduce expenditures." He recently implemented new provisioning processes using StorageNetworks software. -May 16

AvantGo gets DHTML-savvy server

AvantGo this week released M-Business Server 5.0 Application Edition, which supports XML Web services, DOM and dynamic HTML. It enables use of VisualStudio .NET, and programming languages such as C# and Java. -May 15

Spotfire mines biotech space

Several moves position Somerville, Mass.-based Spotfire as a potential data analytics powerhouse. -May 14

Pursuing the ideal of perfect code

According to testing guru Adam Kolawa, founder and CEO of Parasoft Corp., the pursuit of perfect code must carry on -- especially in the emerging Internet-centric world of Web services.

Macromedia MX set to run on key J2EE servers

Multimedia and Web design toolmaker Macromedia has moved deeper into the enterprise application development business with the recent unveiling of the Macromedia MX family of client, tool and server technologies.

IBM boosts OLAP analysis, mining

IBM will unveil a new version of its DB2 OLAP Server system that insiders say incorporates both data mining and data analysis technology.

Heard at CA World

At its annual user group conference in Orlando, Fla., Computer Associates (CA) announces a reorganization into five brand units based on six brands.

BEA sees gold in 'Application Infrastructure'

An enterprise software category BEA calls "Application Infrastructure" will be a $57 billion market by 2005, said Rani Merritt, senior vice president at BEA Systems Inc.

Microsoft boosts Bluetooth with hardware

Microsoft has taken another step into the Bluetooth camp with its announcement last week that it will begin shipping a USB Bluetooth transceiver, keyboard and mouse later this year, using the wireless networking technology to connect to PCs.

Student wins $100K in collegiate programming challenge

Stanford University junior Daniel Wright wins the 2002 Sun Microsystems Inc. and TopCoder Collegiate Challenge.

Gates testifies in antitrust trial; warns Windows may fragment

With the future of his company on the line, Bill Gates took the stand this week in U.S. District Court. Gates raised the specter of a fragmented Windows operating system if the court mandates changes in established Microsoft business practices. -- April 23

Princeton Softech: Spin off on a mission

Princeton Softech said it has closed a deal with Apax Partners Inc. and co-investor LLR Partners Inc. that will enable the software company to spin-off from its parent, Computer Horizons Corp.

Matisse user foregoes object-to-relational mapping

Fresher Information Corp., and its Matisse database technology, has made a number of moves to expand in a specialized segment of the database industry.

HP quietly updates the Grid

Hewlett-Packard unveils plans to offer the HP Utility Data Center (UDC).

WealthEngine.com pursues process integration

WealthEngine.com chooses Metaserver Inc. software to integrate the various data sources used in identifying and screening prospects for charities and non-profit groups.