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BIRT 2.3, released as part of the Ganymede train, adds a JavaScript debugger, a prototype SQL query builder, scriptable crosstabs and other features. Actuate is the commercial sponsor of the Eclipse-based open-source business intelligence reporting tool.
7/3/2008 3:00PM EST
The International Organization for Standardization now controls the PDF format, and the organization will be responsible for publishing the specifications for PDF version 1.7. Also, Acrobat 9 has been released.
7/3/2008 12:00PM EST
Oracle detailed its plans for integrating products from BEA into its portfolio of middleware products, saying it would continue development of the WebLogic application server. Many of BEA's developer tools will be rolled into Oracle's.
7/3/2008 8:30AM EST
Micro Focus will integrate its trio of COBOL modernization products with the full Microsoft stack, including BizTalk Server, the .NET Framework, SCOM, SQL Server, and Windows.
7/2/2008 4:02PM EST
Fujitsu Interstage Business Process Manager 10 can host partitioned applications on a single server to create processes that span divisions in the enterprise, says the company.
7/1/2008 1:43PM EST
AccuRev and Rally worked to integrate AccuRev's change and configuration management tool with Rally's agile life-cycle management solution. The result is a beta product called AccuBridge.
7/1/2008 8:30AM EST
Danube Technologies seeks to advance the Scrum process of agile software development with ScrumWorks Pro 3.1, introduced today. Changes include newer collaboration and enterprise reporting capabilities.
6/30/2008 6:00PM EST
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It's hard to overstate the importance of the Portable Document Format. Thanks to PDF, you can distribute documents to people, and they can read it without knowing what type of application created it.
Bill Gates may be leaving the helm at Microsoft, but he is not leaving its customers without anything to look forward to. Silverlight 2's features dominated the presentation section of his final talk.
We take a look at the Java Community Process and wonder why everyone is getting up in arms over the controversy. Also, Apple will need more than widgets to raise the iPhone's stature.
Java may be the most popular platform in the industry, but Java tools never really took off. Andrew Binstock examines the emergence, and fall, of a handful of Java toolmakers to see why this happened.
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A new service from DeviceAnywhere allows users to manipulate a virtual Palm phone as if they were actually holding it, allowing them to test a device without exposing design features.
Until Nokia's deal with Trolltech closes, developers will have to wait to see what Nokia's long-term plans are. Qt has been examined as a possible lead platform for making applications on Nokia phones.
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Capability Maturity Model Integration is a method by which organizations can measure the effectiveness of their business processes and work toward improvement.
The Eclipse Foundation and its development community have once again successfully released dozens of interoperable projects and 18 million lines of code.
Last week I told you about ten cost-saving tips from the U.K. and presented the first five. Here are the remaining five. They're from Martin Adcock, managing director of London-based software quality management solutions consultancy Experimentus.
This week we'll take a look at some opinions about what's new in Ganymede-version projects, compliments of Dzone.
The sagging economy, fuelled by rising fuel prices, has hit businesses hard, and everyone's looking for ways to offset their new top-line cost-- energy.
In my previous installment, I discussed how to create your very own extension point so that others can contribute to what you are building. The context for this discussion was a new set of plug-ins I was building to develop a Scheme development environment for Eclipse.
Registration is open for the Software Test & Performance Conference September 24-26, 2008. The East Coast edition this year moves from Cambridge to the Boston Marriott Copley Place, in Boston. The city-bound conference promises to be the best one ever, with dozens of new classes and tutorials.
As the sun draws nearer to summer solstice, the Eclipse community draws its plans for Ganymede, the simultaneous release of Eclipse projects, a week from this Monday.
The challenge for software teams--typically locked into time-boxed deployment schedules--is to squeeze as much testing into the available time as possible while maintaining high levels of quality.
A peek inside the Ganymede Around the World contest yielded some interesting insights into what people are doing or planning with the upcoming release. Here are a few from across the globe.
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Sun Microsystems is bundling its GlassFish application server and MySQL database software together, with deployment to an unlimited number of machines at a fixed price. The company believes that customers will ultimately save money from deployment costs.
6/30/2008 3:42PM EST
NetAdvantage for WPF 2008 Volume 1 adds a dock control and extends the capabilities of its grid control. Also included are a control that can produce Microsoft Excel-like formulas, and aggregation fields to data grids.
6/30/2008 12:00PM EST
Mule Galaxy Enterprise starts where Mule's open-source community variant left off, providing clustering, support for custom data types and an ATOM interface for integrations with other platforms.
6/30/2008 9:56AM EST
At TechEd, the company touted solutions by its partners that permit Visual Studio to work on platforms other than Windows. These platforms include Java and .NET.
6/27/2008 6:00PM EST
Hyper-V has broken the hype barrier; Licensed Windows Server 2008 users can now download the final version of Hyper-V from Microsoft, months after the OS itself shipped, but a month earlier than planned.
6/27/2008 4:12PM EST
Version 3 of the GPL reaches its first birthday on Sunday, with more than 3,000 projects started under its rules and predictions of 6,000 by year two. GPL v3 backers are hopeful of an increase in its adoption rates.
6/27/2008 3:13PM EST
Wireless handset maker Nokia is acquiring the part of Symbian that it doesn't already own. The company also announced the creation, with other handset makers, of the Symbian Foundation, with the goal of releasing the code for the mobile device operating system under the open-source Eclipse license.
6/26/2008 4:13PM EST
The Eclipse Foundation introduced yesterday its latest release train, called Ganymede, a bundle of updates from 23 Eclipse project teams that contain 18 million lines of code.
6/26/2008 8:30AM EST
Salesforce.com deepened its relationship with Google on Monday by introducing the Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs, a set of tools and services to let developers use GData within applications developed on Force.com.
6/25/2008 7:00PM EST
OpenSpan 4.0 brings functionality from legacy applications into the middle tier, making desktop workflows available across the enterprise. The program also works with virtualized applications from Citrix and VMware.
6/25/2008 5:00PM EST
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This white paper discusses overcoming the challenges relating to SOA. For organizations that need to get the most out of...
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Toolmakers are increasingly looking to reach out to others when dealing with complex SCM offerings instead of trying to develop one lone standard. Although this is a challenging task, SCM providers have come up with some steps to ease the process.
Being accustomed with different SCM tools and differing SCM requirements are two of the reasons why IT shops have a diverse collection of SCM tools.
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Progress Software and Iona Technologies have agreed to begin a US$162 million transaction wherein Iona will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Progress in September.
6/25/2008 3:15PM EST
WSO2's ESB is now current with Apache Synapse 1.2, and it ships with an integrated registry that has been updated with customizable governance capabilities. Both the ESB and the registry are available free of charge.
6/23/2008 1:27PM EST
Talend released a free open-source data profiler today to complement its other data integration tools. The profiler performs metadata discovery and statistics definition, and creates charts to illustrate its results.
6/23/2008 10:24AM EST
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