Application Development Trends' News


Web services can democratize EAI

In the next five years, Web services will democratize enterprise application integration, predicts Annrai O'Toole, CEO at Cape Clear Software. -Mar. 15, 2002

Precise buys rights to EMC toolset

Precise Software Solutions has acquired from EMC Corp. the exclusive rights to sell and support the Luminate Analysis Suite for SAP R/3. -Mar. 13, 2002

Pacific Edge adds Connector to portfolio

An addition to Pacific Edge's set of project portfolio management software provides bi-directional XML-based connectivity between Pacific Edge's Project Office and Microsoft Project 2000. - Mar. 14, 2002

Biometrics standards emerge from OASIS

Nascent applications that identify people via fingerprints, facial contours, DNA, iris scans, voices, or other characteristics are popping up. -March 12, 2002

Sun sues Microsoft over Java; alleges anticompetitive acts

Sun Microsystems has filed suit against Microsoft Corp. for what Sun described as anticompetitive acts. -March 9, 2002

ERP embraces XML and SOAP

In a practical implementation of XML and SOAP, San Jose, Calif.-based Cadence Design Systems uses the standards to provide real-time updates to its employee directory. -Mar. 7, 2002

'Rich clients are coming!' -- Macromedia

Will tomorrow's software developers go Hollywood? They will if Web software pioneer Jeremy Allaire is right about the growing value of Macromedia's Flash plug-in. -Mar. 6, 2002

Web services: Tight or loose coupling?

As more work is done with Web services, some developers say they are encountering "limitations" in the technology. -Mar. 7, 2002

Time to manage those Web services

Question for Web services champions: Once the world is overrun with the technology, who's going to keep track of Web services to let them be used efficiently? -Mar. 7, 2002

Loudcloud agrees to buy rival

Loudcloud Inc., the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based hosting management services provider, last week signed an agreement to acquire smaller MSP rival Frontera Corp., Los Angeles. -Mar. 5, 2002

White House aide pushes private government net

Richard A. Clarke, White House Special Advisor for Cyber Security, plugged his proposal for the creation of Govnet, a private network exclusively for sensitive government computers at the annual RSA Security Conference held last week in San Jose, Calif. -Feb 27, 2002

Security czar warns of hacker terrorists

U.S. cyber security czar Richard A. Clarke kicked off the eleventh annual RSA Security Conference last week with a warning that future terrorists may exploit glaring weaknesses in this country's computer systems. -- Feb. 27, 2002

Corel's new tack: XML, content management

Struggling Corel Corp. unveiled a new brand name and a new strategy at last week's Seybold Seminars conference in New York. XML and content management are part of the plan. --Feb. 27, 2002

TeamShare release foresees business use

Collaborative software maker TeamShare has just released TeamTrack 5.5, which the company sees as a defect-tracking solution that can expand beyond the developer team to meet the needs of business managers.

Visual Studio .NET puts MS security push to test

Lost in the energetic hyperbole surrounding its roll out is the fact that Visual Studio .NET is the first Microsoft product to emerge from the company's new Trustworthy Computing initiative.

SilverStream to cut staff

In the midst of a dramatic repositioning as a Web services vendor, application server pioneer SilverStream Software announced poor financial results for Q4/01. Software license revenue was $5.5 million vs. $12.3 million in Q4/OO. The company also announced layoffs of more than 100 people.

Borland enhances its C++ offering

Despite a burst of attention directed at new languages like Java and C#, C++ use continues to grow. At the same time, .NET-driven changes in Microsoft's popular Visual C++ tool may alienate some C++ developers. Into this scene arrives Borland Software Corp. with C++ Builder 6.

Gates and Co. roll out Visual Studio .NET

Billing it as nothing less than the 'most comprehensive development tool of all time,' Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates today rolled out the long anticipated Visual Studio .NET software suite at the VSLive! 2002 Conference in San Francisco.

PalmSource conference witnesses fresh OS

The new software subsidiary of Palm Inc. finally got a name (PalmSource) with the unveiling of the fresh operating system for the parent firm's PDA.