Sun shines on silver anniversary
Oct. 18, 2000, might go unnoticed in the long history of Sun Microsystems, but it marked a critical moment in the history of a company that celebrates its 25th anniversary this week.
Oct. 18, 2000, might go unnoticed in the long history of Sun Microsystems, but it marked a critical moment in the history of a company that celebrates its 25th anniversary this week.
Microsoft is "very interested" in the Ruby programming language and also plans to expand its Expression design tools line, a Microsoft official said this week.
Microsoft says it will focus on four key areas to improve interoperability between its own software and other vendors' products.
Borland Software on Tuesday will refresh the Silk application testing product line it acquired last year.
Microsoft has released architectural guidance for organisations looking to offer SAAS (software as a service).
JetBrains is now accommodating Ruby developers with the company's IntelliJ Idea Java IDE. A beta plug-in released Feb. 1 enables the product to serve as an IDE for developing Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications, the company said. Ruby is a popular dynamic scripting language; Ruby on Rails is an open source Web framework that leverages Ruby.
Unisys has announced an expansion of its relationship with Oracle to move mainframe and Unix deployments over to Linux and SOA.
Citing a mistaken filing, Microsoft has abandoned a patent application for technology in its Visual Studio software development platform that originated outside the company, a Microsoft representative said on Tuesday.
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.
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.
Nexaweb on Monday is expanding its Enterprise Web 2.0 application platform, adding a client framework for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and Java as well as Web services enhancements.
Sun Microsystems is sprucing up its Solaris 10 operating system with security and virtualization improvements.
Emphasizing SOA, the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) on Monday is publishing draft documents on Web services and security, and seeks public feedback.
Newly christened CodeGear, Borland Software's subsidiary offering developer tools, is ready to make its first major product announcement.
Instead of selling its tools unit as had been planned, Borland Software will spin off its Developer Tools Group into a wholly owned subsidiary, called CodeGear.
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By Kalyan Madala, CTO, IBM ASEANZK