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IBM product launch eyes smaller businesses IBM is announcing on Friday software and resources for smaller businesses to manage software quality and network infrastructure like their counterparts in large enterprises use. Tech giants chart research goals Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies.  September 26, 2:53 p.m. PDT Coverity adds Boolean concept to software analysis Coverity on Wednesday is announcing a software analysis engine based on the concept of "Boolean satisfiability," or SAT. September 18, 9:01 p.m. PDT Best of open source in software development The wealth of open source software development goodies is heaven for the developer community, but it's hell on an awards committee. Considering IDEs, debuggers, defect trackers, code coverage tools, unit testers, load testers, and so on, we could have come up with more awards here than the rest of the Bossies combined. Then there were paths that could only lead to trouble. Could we really choose a best language? Or a best development platform? Could we pick Python over Perl, or Rails over Mono? September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Borland ALM survey finds heterogeneity Borland Software surveyed its own customers to get a snapshot of the ALM (application lifecycle management) market and found heterogeneity rules in application development. August 27, 10:45 a.m. PDT Make mashups secure With the advent of mashups, innovative developers all over the enterprise are seeking new ways to leverage the value of corporate information through the use of external Web applications, APIs, or services. Although the thought of this adventure has sent many corporate security specialists running behind their firewalls, mashups are here to stay. Indeed, they have strategic value for many enterprises, so you’d better figure out how to live with them. August 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT IT immigration: Thoughtful debate amid the flames Wow. My column last week proposing to grant citizenship to immigrant developers, "Open the floodgates to IT immigration," generated a torrent of comments from readers (83 and counting). Many were emotional, some were flames, almost all were opinionated, and the vast majority was – drumroll – thoughtful and rational, and they made me sympathetic to their point of view. As one person wrote, "there's a lot of layers to this onion," and our readers peeled them all back. Thanks, everybody, for taking the time. July 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft touts Scrum tool Microsoft has built a tool to track the daily progress of Scrum-based software development projects. June 14, 1:30 p.m. PDT Microsoft linking project, ALM servers Microsoft is boosting integration between its project management and application lifecycle management servers, enabling better communications between project managers and software development teams. June 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT IBM sings Jazz tune for app development IBM will begin delivering on its Jazz vision for collaborative application development Monday with the introduction of collaborative portal software intended to boost team productivity. June 10, 9:01 p.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Stephan Murer Back in the late '90s, the Private Banking IT division of financial services giant Credit Suisse was at a crossroads. Some felt that the organization’s IT infrastructure was beyond repair and would have to be replaced wholesale. Others maintained that everything was fine and could keep going indefinitely. June 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Robert Lyons It’s hard to believe, but the world of clinical trials management was still mostly paper-based as late as the early 2000s, thanks to heavy regulation and an extremely conservative user base. “There were databases, once data got from the research center to the organization managing it, but they had no exposure to the outside world, and the time lag between data collection and availability in electronic form could be months,” says Robert Lyons. “If there were data problems, they could also take months to resolve.” June 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Todd Schofield Todd Schofield joined International SOS after a string of CTOs had done one-year stints. He soon found out why. June 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Lean, mean coding machines The alpha geek consultants at the McKinsey Quarterly are out with an interesting new research paper that says app developers have to get lean – as in, adopt lean manufacturing techniques. That’s right, you know who you are – slim down, toughen up, drop and give me 20! May 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM pitches the efficiency of agile programming IBM is undoubtedly one of the oldest computer technology companies, but it may be on the cutting edge when it comes to deploying newfangled agile programming methodologies. May 15, 4:05 p.m. PDT What the enterprise can learn from consumer technologies Today’s corporate end-users are far more tech-savvy than their productivity with IT tools indicates. After all, screen-deep in IMs, widgets, and elaborate consumer Web apps, they’re proving themselves well-versed in the production and distribution of content as facilitated by the consumer Web 2.0 craze. April 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT Rally adds Ruby to agile platform Rally Software Development will announce on Monday an upgrade to its hosted service for agile software development projects featuring a toolkit accommodating Ruby programming as well as better integration with third-party developer products. March 19, 6:00 a.m. PST OpenMake frees up Mojo for process automation OpenMake Software plans next week to offer process automation software free for software development teams. February 27, 7:00 a.m. PST Borland smoothing out Silk apps testing line Borland Software on Tuesday will refresh the Silk application testing product line it acquired last year. February 12, 9:02 p.m. PST Upgrade disasters made easy I’m the technical administrator at a large medical group in Canada. Among other things, I’m responsible for the LAN, the WAN, all the desktops, laptops, peripherals, and a medical-records application that’s at the core of our group’s operations. Over the last couple of years, we’ve been struggling to make that app perform more reliably. At the same time, our infrastructure has been growing fast, and sluggish performance from our overloaded servers had become a problem. January 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Compuware details quality management product Compuware, Parasoft, and AutomatedQA this week plan to offer products to improve software development processes, with Compuware focused on quality assurance, Parasoft on SOA testing, and AutomatedQA on build and release management. January 29, 5:30 a.m. PST IBM advancing global-based software development Building on its Jazz strategy for collaboratively building software, IBM Rational will offer versions of its products geared toward global cooperative development with an eye toward boosting SOA in 2007. January 25, 4:00 p.m. PST VersionOne tunes agile ALM platform VersionOne will bolster its application lifecycle management platform for users of agile development methodologies on Thursday, adding customization and simplification. January 17, 3:20 p.m. PST Tabblo’s approach to rich Internet apps If you want a peek into the future of RIAs (rich Internet applications), take a look at Tabblo (tabblo.com). The model that Tabblo has set into motion for photographers -- both amateur and professional -- will soon be adopted by enterprise IT to empower its user base. January 16, 3:00 a.m. PST Survey: Offshoring does not cost developer jobs Offshoring of software development by software companies is not costing Americans jobs, according to a report being announced Thursday by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). January 11, 6:00 a.m. PST Agile scripting: Bigger bang for app-dev bucks Enterprises will spend too much this year creating monolithic apps — the sort of server-side efforts that involve formal requirements and tie up dozens (or hundreds) of architects, coders, and testers. Most would be better off using scripting languages, Web services, and SOA to weave together browser-based apps that leverage existing assets. January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Telelogic offers free UML tool Enterprise Lifecycle Management firm Telelogic is looking to spread the use of model-driven application development with the release this week of Telelogic Modeler, a free UML (Unified Modeling Language) design environment. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST FedEx seeks improved software testing Believing current software testing approaches are antiquated, FedEx is working with the University of Memphis to take testing to its next steps. December 19, 2:10 p.m. PST AutomatedQA adds Vista tests AutomatedQA on Monday is unveiling its TestComplete 5 application testing environment, which adds support for Windows Vista applications. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Good ideas take time Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST Tibco, Savvion, Cape Clear tout BPM, BAM Business process management and business activity monitoring are the focuses this week for Tibco Software, Cape Clear Software, and Savvion, with Tibco offering a free tool in hopes of spurring sales of its full BPM package. November 13, 6:00 a.m. PST Nationwide ensures unified view into financials With 30,000 employees and many semiautonomous divisions across geographic and line-of-business boundaries -- including several acquired but only partially digested business units -- Nationwide Insurance found it increasingly hard for its central financial and executive team to get a comprehensive, up-to-date view of the company. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Open source rule management Considering that a high-end BRMS (Business Rule Management System) costs about $50,000 just to get started, and that annual maintenance, runtime fees, and professional services can drive the total toward a hefty half-million or more, organizations on a tight budget have incentive to seek alternatives. Thankfully, good options exist. Two of the better low-or-no-cost tools are Jess from Sandia National Laboratories, and JBoss Rules from JBoss, a division of Red Hat. November 2, 5:00 p.m. PST TechExcel touts unified ALM TechExcel on Wednesday is launching DevSuite, which the company positions as a unified platform for the enterprise application lifecycle management space. November 1, 8:30 a.m. PST Visual Studio users get agile programming link VersionOne's Fall 2006 release of its agile software development platform features a plug-in for users of the Microsoft Visual Studio environment. October 26, 1:45 p.m. PDT The uncertain future of R&D One of the more eye-opening business experiences i ever had was taking a daylong tour of Procter & Gamble’s R&D facilities in Cincinnati several years ago. The sheer scope of the operation blew me away -- I think they said P&G had more Ph.D.s on the payroll than Harvard and MIT combined. October 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Tools wrap: Borland unveils Gauntlet apps tester Borland Software, CollabNet, and Electric Cloud are rolling out products for ALM (application lifecycle management) and collaboration this week, including a preview of Borland's Gauntlet, for early quality control. October 2, 2:01 a.m. PDT Serena expands ALM focus with change governance Serena Software is expanding its focus in the application lifecycle management space with a release of a platform tailored to change governance. September 12, 5:00 a.m. PDT ClearApp, formerly Acsera, unveils app management ClearApp, formerly Acsera, on Tuesday is announcing ClearApp QuickVision 6.0, providing model-based application management for SOA, J2EE environments, and enterprise portals. September 11, 5:01 a.m. PDT The case for altruism The first timeI heard about Wikipedia, I thought, This has no shot. Why would highly qualified people devote their energies to an encyclopedia they couldn’t make a dime on? September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Borland positions modeling tool for SOA, Eclipse Borland Software this week is rolling out an upgrade to its Together enterprise modeling tool for the Eclipse platform, featuring SOA capabilities. Borland Together 2006 for Eclipse Release 2 boosts its usefulness for SOA by enabling a UML-based (Unified Modeling Language) view of dependencies in an entire system. This lets developers understand where services are being invoked and helps them gauge the impact of changes, said Dave Hauck, director of marketing for Together technologies at Borland. September 4, 12:01 a.m. PDT Software sleuthing in the field While I was reading Ellen Ullman’s novel The Bug last month, life imitated art. The protagonist in that story is a programmer who grapples with a fiendish bug. It strikes intermittently and, to add insult to injury, the testers can never manage to capture the core dump that might yield the clue as to why. August 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT Borland prepares to run Gauntlet for ALM Just because Borland Software is exiting the developer tools business does not mean the company will not be tending to enterprise application developers, says Borland's Rob Cheng, director of developer solutions. To this end, the company is getting ready to release its Gauntlet continuous building and testing automation system, with the goal of helping developers better manage the development process. August 18, 2:30 p.m. PDT Does “built to last” apply to IT? Over the weekend, I bought an amazing antique chair: a fancy wooden office swivel chair in practically mint condition, including all its original cast-iron hardware. Although probably made between 1900 and 1915 (the patent date is 1897), it’s remarkably modern, with fully adjustable height, tilt, and back support, like the best Aeron chairs of today (well, its wooden surfaces are a tad stiffer). With any luck, it will last another 100 years and be just as functional. August 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Lattix offers software architecture management for .Net Lattix is extending its software architecture management product, which examines architectural dependencies, to .Net projects. August 10, 4:15 p.m. PDT Sprint wrangles mashups Mashups are seductive, thanks to their whizzy interfaces and lightweight development requirements. To creative developers, they constitute an open invitation to mix and match data and services in unexpected ways. But if you don’t think them through from an enterprise perspective, “mashups are no more than Happy Meal toys,” says Edmund Vazquez, manager of Web services integration and SOA implementation at Sprint Nextel. July 28, 9:31 a.m. PDT Rally readies enterprise-level agile project management With agile programming spreading to larger groups of developers, Rally Software Development on Monday will introduce an enterprise-level version of its life cycle management platform for agile software development. The product includes an on-premise deployment option. July 24, 4:00 a.m. PDT VersionOne adds Web services API to agile platform VersionOne next week will roll out the Summer 2006 release of its lifecycle management platform for agile development methodologies, featuring an API to integrate with third-party tools. July 20, 11:15 a.m. PDT Clash of the Java rule Titans Editor's Note: In this review, we inaccurately stated that we ran the WaltzDB benchmark on ILOG JRules 6 and Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor 6.1. Although we were able to run the benchmark on Blaze Advisor, we were not able to do so on JRules. As noted in the review's supplementary performance chart online, we thus reported one of two benchmark results provided by ILOG. We believed this number accurately reflected JRules' performance. Since that time, ILOG has asserted that the performance number we reported was based on a first-generation RETE algorithm and not the current algorithm which the product now uses. We plan to perform further testing of our own to better assess the performance capabilities of ILOG JRules and will provide those results when they are available. July 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Update: Overworked Japan software developer commits suicide July 12, 6:43 a.m. PDT Broaden your options: Don’t fear native code I have prepared an account of the history of .Net and Java that’s intended to balance more fanciful post-mortem accounts (of .Net and Java, not of me). It reads thus: Sun created Java to cash in on the success of Visual Basic and to convince development managers that C++ coders are all slobbering toddlers playing with nail guns. Sun did grant C++ dispensation for “performance-sensitive applications,” a category that covered most of Sun’s software catalog. Microsoft created .Net to keep Java from gaining traction and to put that cross-platform nonsense to rest once and for all. One OS, one run-time, many languages was the best way to go. C#, the Microsoft alternative to Java with the honesty to use “C” in its name, still kept the pencils and paper clips away from the inmates, except, of course, for those developers working on performance-sensitive applications, a category that covered most of Microsoft’s software catalog. July 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Exclusive: Corticon plays by different rules Dr. Mark Allen of Corticon caused quite a ruckus several years ago when he published a paper called “Rete is Wrong,” which took all of the rule-based engines based on the Rete (pronounced Ree-tee) algorithm to task for inefficiencies and poor construction. Allen explained that, in contrast to the Rete engines in market-leading BRMS (Business Rules Management Systems) such as ILOG’s JRules and Fair Isaac’s Blaze Advisor, Corticon had a DETI (Design-Time Inferencing, pronounced Dee-Tee) engine. July 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft readies Team Foundation Server service pack Microsoft is working on a service pack for its recently released Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server software, with improvements planned in areas such as authentication and data warehousing, Microsoft officials write in their blogs. June 30, 3:15 p.m. PDT Open source education Graham Glass wrote a blog entry this week that touched on two of my favorite themes: open source and education. In the middle of a project based on the red-hot Ruby on Rails platform, he took time out to explain how he found, and worked around, a Rails limitation. Digging down to the roots of the problem took six hours of investigation. Crafting the work-around took just six lines of code. June 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM releases promote global software delivery Increasingly, enterprise app dev projects span the globe. To govern such sprawling collaborations, IBM is rolling out 12 products developed by its Rational Software division. June 5, 7:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Roland Whitehead When your IT department has successfully accommodated five M&As in the past four years, you must be doing something right. For Roland Whitehead, global director of IT for the elite auction house Bonhams, the secret lies in custom development, which he considers a key component of Bonhams’ dramatic growth. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Bob DeRodes Bob DeRodes used to be a long-snapping center, but he says he missed his shot at the NFL. Instead, he became executive vice president and CIO of The Home Depot. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft ALM platform extended to bridge gap Microsoft is expanding its ALM (application lifecycle management) platform on Wednesday with new tools aiming to bridge a disconnect between database developers and administrators. May 31, 8:45 a.m. PDT Send us your hacks Do you have a hack you’re particularly proud of? (And by hack I mean an ingenious fix-it job that may not follow established procedures but gets the task done.) I ask because this week’s cover story, “Heroic Hacks and Inspired Work-arounds” (page 26), relates six seat-of-the-pants hacks that saved the day when a company was in a pickle. These enterprising enterprise rescues, from the case files of three InfoWorld contributing editors, are all variations on a theme — how to solve a problem using smarts, a certain twisted logic, and the tools at hand. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT MKS fits ALM package with portfolio management MKS is adding application portfolio management to its ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) platform, with the planned release of MKS Integrity 2006. May 24, 9:00 a.m. PDT Easing app deployment with an open source sandbox I’ve just returned from a day at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va., where I participated in the annual Faculty Academy on Instructional Technologies. I greatly enjoyed the opportunity to give a keynote talk on 21st century literacy, and to discuss Web 2.0 with a panel of like-minded thinkers. May 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Tools wrap: Borland, Telelogic debut upgrades In separate announcements, Borland Software and Telelogic on Monday are unveiling upgrades to application testing, and enterprise architecture and modeling tools. May 15, 5:30 a.m. PDT Upstart startups Startups aren’t typical fodder for InfoWorld stories. For that matter, we don’t devote all that much ink to tech companies in general, preferring to focus on technologies, products, and strategies that help IT do what it needs to do. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Akimbi virtualizes the application test bench In the average datacenter, a lot of IT resources are spent on preproduction application testing. Servers, networks, databases, and applications must all be deployed, followed by a series of installs and uninstalls for various versions of the application environment being put through its paces. The more homegrown applications you create, the more staff hours you burn on this repetitive but crucial work. “It’s all quite churny,” says James Phillips, CEO of Akimbi. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Eclipse effort eyes server-side apps Server-side application deployment may get a boost from a project newly proposed to the open source Eclipse Foundation. The Rich Server Platform - User Interface Framework (RSP-UI) effort within Eclipse seeks to provide a UI framework to compose integrated server-side applications based on Eclipse and OSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative) styles. May 9, 5:00 p.m. PDT Software testing tool cuts out scripting Aberro on Monday is rolling out an upgrade to its AberroTest tool, which automates the testing of Windows and Web applications without requiring scripting. May 8, 12:05 a.m. PDT Update: IBM acquires BuildForge Looking for a better way to help corporate software developers meet compliance demands, IBM Corp. said Tuesday that it has acquired BuildForge Inc. May 2, 7:24 a.m. PDT The slippery slope of open source If you work with open source software, you’ve been to the place I’ll describe in this column more times than you care to count. It always starts innocently enough. In my case, I needed to re-create a Linux-based development environment on my Apple PowerBook. The essential ingredients were Apache, Berkeley DB, mod_python, and libxml2. Pretty standard stuff, but I’d never assembled all the pieces on Mac OS X. April 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT VersionOne enhances agile development VersionOne is upgrading its platform for agile software development on Tuesday, adding improvements for managing defects and projects. April 17, 2:10 p.m. PDT CollabNet offers software version control service CollabNet this week is unveiling a hosted service for Subversion, an open source version-control system for enterprise software development. April 17, 6:00 a.m. PDT Borland offers software requirements definition Not to be confused with requirements management, Borland Software on Monday is introducing a requirements definition package as part of the company's application lifecycle management arsenal. April 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT ILOG extends the tools for rules ILOG delivered JRules 6.0 at the end of March, just a little more than a year since the introduction of Version 5.0. JRules 6.0, in keeping with the company’s push to extend development and maintenance of business applications to business experts, includes new vocabulary features that are similar to regular expressions and are far friendlier to nondevelopers. In addition to performance and reporting improvements, Version 6.0 ushers in a Web-based rules repository and integration with any Eclipse-based IDE. April 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT EclipseCon reflects IDE’s rise as plug-in platform of choice EclipseCon kicks off this week in Santa Clara, Calif., marking the second annual convocation of Eclipse partners and vendors, who will gather to learn about and celebrate alliances, new products, and new directions. March 20, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft ALM server online next week Santa Clara, Calif. -- Saint Patrick's Day is the lucky day for developers awaiting Microsoft's ALM (application lifecycle management) server. March 16, 4:50 p.m. PST Microsoft: A 21st-century has-been? Early this month, Neil Holloway, president of Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), said that in six months Microsoft’s search engine “will be more relevant” to the consumer than Google’s. It is no coincidence that Holloway used the word “relevant.” In high tech more than in any other industry, if your technology has been bypassed by the newer and better, you’re dead. Maintaining your relevancy is Job One. And for years, it has been Microsoft’s Achilles’ heel. March 14, 3:00 a.m. PST Agile programming has fallen short, conference told Agile software development, which aims to offer a much quicker style of delivering software than traditional methods, has not yet met its promise, Steve McConnell, author and chief software engineer at Construx Software Builders, told the the SD West 2006 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., on Monday. March 13, 4:41 p.m. PST Microsoft collaboration server to ship this month Microsoft's impending delivery of its Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server is the culmination of seven years of planning the company's entrance into the ALM (application lifecycle management) space. March 10, 3:35 p.m. PST Borland: Interest, but no buyer yet, for tools line Deciding to concentrate on ALM (application lifecycle management), Borland Software last month announced plans to sell off its faltering JBuilder Java IDE business, as well as its Windows tools platform, including Delphi. With its SDO (Software Delivery Optimization) for ALM, Borland is squaring off against formidable opponents in IBM and Microsoft. With nearly a month having passed since Borland's announcement, InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill this week spoke to Borland's Erik Frieberg, vice president of product marketing and strategy, about the company's intentions, and to get a progress report on the planned sale of Borland's developer tool lines. March 3, 10:20 a.m. PST Microsoft ALM server to debut with limited Internet access Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server initially will be limited in how users can access it over the Internet, according to a Microsoft blogger. February 23, 1:36 p.m. PST Interview: IBM's Sabbah touts Rational offerings Daniel Sabbah is general manger of IBM Rational Software, within the IBM Software Group. Prior to that, he was vice president of software development, strategy, and architecture for the group. Having begun his IBM career in 1974, Sabbah is experienced in both product development and software research, according to the company. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Sabbah in San Francisco last week to discuss IBM's application lifecycle management efforts and talk about other subjects such as open source. February 22, 4:00 p.m. PST IBM to boost Web enablement in Rational tools Seeking to more easily accommodate distributed development, IBM later this year plans to modernize its Rational software lifecycle management products to make them strictly Web-based. February 17, 12:15 p.m. PST Borland unveils IT management/governance combo Borland Software is blending process improvement and skills training services with its Borland Tempo software to provide the Borland IT Management & Governance (ITM&G) Solution. February 13, 9:00 a.m. PST Update: Borland to exit IDE business, focus on ALM Borland Software plans to sell off its struggling Java development tools business to focus instead on selling services and products for managing software development, the company announced Wednesday. February 8, 5:25 a.m. PST Internet neutrality law needed, Vinton Cerf says The man often called the father of the Internet told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday that the future of the Internet is at risk if Congress does not pass a law prohibiting broadband providers from discriminating against competing Web applications and computer devices. February 7, 11:33 a.m. PST Bringing software development back in-house I’ve written so many columns about offshore outsourcing that I never thought I’d do another. Then I met Mike Fields, the new CEO at CRM vendor Kana Software, and I changed my mind. This time I want to talk about what Fields calls “backshoring.” February 7, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM targets Russian developers IBM launched a new initiative aimed at attracting more Russian developers to use its middleware and hardware Friday. February 3, 6:56 a.m. PST Microsoft's Team Foundation Server represents a shift to collaborative-centric focus SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft's upcoming Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server represents a shift from a developer-centric focus in building software to a collaborative one, a Microsoft official said Monday at the VSLive! Conference. January 30, 3:15 p.m. PST AccuRev gives software configuration system global focus AccuRev this week is shipping upgrades to its SCM (software configuration management) system and related products, featuring the ability to link to third-party issue-tracking systems. January 20, 1:00 p.m. PST EU move prompts fresh fears about software patents The European Union's request for comments on an effective way to protect intellectual property in Europe has prompted fears of a renewed attempt to allow software to be patented, after an earlier patents initiative was blocked last year. January 17, 4:19 a.m. PST Salesforce.com goes live with AppExchange Salesforce.com Inc. went live this week with a heavily publicized major update, adding a new platform called AppExchange for easily deploying third-party applications to extend the functionality of Salesforce.com's CRM (customer relationship management) system. January 13, 1:23 p.m. PST The tolerance continuum I distinctly remember the first time I heard the term AJAX. I was having dinner with a friend who mentioned, in passing, that he’d been interviewed on that topic. “AJAX?” I asked. “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML,” he replied. January 11, 3:00 a.m. PST Application development tools focus on team process and code quality It was a year that saw the resurgence of old tools and the redesign of new ones. Static code analysis, which was abandoned long ago, became the latest craze in 2005 following concerns about security, code quality, and code ownership. Today, impressive offerings in all three areas are available; 18 months ago, the vendors themselves barely existed. Likely, these products will coalesce and one or two packages will emerge that can perform all three forms of code analysis. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Speedev enhances application lifecycle offering Speedev this week upgraded its application development lifecycle offering that is geared toward managing software products and projects. December 22, 1:24 p.m. PST Best practices are key in IBM software portfolio tool IBM is upgrading its software for managing enterprise software development projects, emphasizing best practices and integration with Rational tools. December 20, 6:00 a.m. PST Software-quality tools focus on concurrency, ease of use Coverity and Worksoft on Tuesday will reveal wares intended to improve software quality, focusing respectively on concurrency and ease of use. December 12, 3:00 p.m. PST 2005 survey spots trends in software development Software developers are often important augurs of IT technologies’ direction and rate of adoption. Managers who responded to trends among developers would have been the first to detect the growth of Linux and the open source movement, the emergence of Java as a significant platform for server-based computing, and the arrival of integration technologies such as XML and Web services. November 30, 12:30 p.m. PST IBM links software testing tools to Visual Studio, Tivoli IBM Rational plans to enhance its application testing tools with support for Visual Studio 2005, Tivoli, and SAP. November 15, 4:02 p.m. PST Making SOA work Implementing SOA (service-oriented architecture) is one of the most daunting projects that an enterprise IT organization can undertake. Service orientation represents a whole new way of thinking and doing, one that changes the way developers operate and interact with the business. November 7, 3:00 a.m. PST Toolkits for user innovation Technology trends obey certain predictable laws, among them that every action produces an equal and opposite reaction. So the recent backlash directed at AJAX and other "Web 2.0" technologies was no surprise. November 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Borland eyes development services as IDE revenue drops Acknowledging a decline in IDE revenues, Borland Software instead is focusing on development services, with an emphasis on people, processes, and technology. November 1, 5:01 a.m. PST > Application development > Applications |
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