News Briefs: June 15, 2008

By SD Times News Team

June 15, 2008 —

COMPANIES

Microsoft has contributed its Microsoft Scan Service Definition Version 1.0, a Web services protocol specification for consumer scanning peripherals, to the Printer Working Group, a program of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization. Microsoft said this would make it easier for partner companies to have their products be interoperable across multiple platforms.

Codice Software, a provider of software products to strengthen application development, said that its Plastic SCM software configuration management product would be used for the Web site of a charity that benefits an orphanage in Awasa, Ethiopia.

Open-source database management software provider Ingres created three programs to promote open-source adoption: the Global Ingres University Alliance, the Janitors Project and Open Source Boot Camp. The Janitors Project is a forum for new Ingres community members, while Open Source Boot Camp introduces university students and staff to open-source concepts. The Global Ingres University Alliance is an alliance with universities in Canada and Europe to drive open source.

NEW PRODUCTS

LDRA announced the launch of TBvision, a testing and reporting tool that provides what the company called the “most comprehensive C and C++ coding standards enforcement available.”

Virtualization company Xenocode launched its flagship Xenocode Virtual Application Studio, an application virtualization environment that allows Java-, .NET- and Windows-based desktop applications to be deployed in standalone form. Company executives said the studio allows users to run legacy applications without errors on Windows Vista, and to use multiple versions of applications, such as different releases of Microsoft Office.

UPDATES

Gomez has announced that its ExperienceFirst application platform for Web development now works with Internet Explorer 8 beta 1.

Sybase iAnywhere announced RFID Anywhere 3.5, an update to its infrastructure toolkit that works with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008, and is expected to be available this month.

Open Kernel Labs announced an update to its OKL4 open-source microkernel, which is based on the company’s Secure HyperCell operating environment for mobile devices.

Indigo Rose added the ability to leverage Microsoft’s Windows Installer XML compiler technology in the latest release of its MSI Factory intelligent setup build product for Windows. This ability in MSI Factory 2.0 gives developers easy access to the technology that Microsoft uses internally for creating installers for Microsoft Office and other products, Indigo Rose executives said.

ZHMICRO, a provider of software development tools based on C++, has added PHP integration and the ability to create solutions with Web applications to its Visual ’08 IDE. Applications written with Visual ’08 can run on Microsoft Windows, LINUX and UNIX, the company said.

PEOPLE

Arun Sarin has stepped down as CEO of telecommunications company Vodafone, and he will be replaced by deputy Vittorio Colao on July 29. Sarin served in the position for five years and will retire after Vodafone’s annual general meeting on that date. Sarin is credited for helping Vodafone expand into new markets, including the Czech Republic, India, Romania and Turkey. The company said that its customer base more than doubled globally and returns to shareholders grew with dividends rose more than 400%.

Jeremy Carroll has joined semantic Web product maker TopQuadrant as chief product architect. Carroll had previously worked at HP Labs and is noted as a lead architect on the open-source Jena toolkit, a semantic Web framework for Java. Additionally, he has contributed to many semantic Web standards from the W3C, according to TopQuadrant. Carroll will work to extend the company’s TopBraid semantic application development platform.

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Microsoft's plans for post-Windows OS revealed A componentized non-Windows operating system is in the works at Microsoft, one that could eventually phase out Windows. The OS features asynchronous-only architecture built for task concurrency.

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