News Briefs: January 1, 2009

By SD Times News Team

January 2, 2009 —

COMPANIES
Software development and outsourcing company Murano Software has created G1MobileSoft.com, an offshore development company devoted to the creation of mobile applications. The company said that G1MobileSoft.com helps companies create applications for the Android mobile phone or the iPhone.

Open-source software provider OpenLogic is launching open-source training services that the company said will provide expert advice based on best practices and experience from working with mid- and large-sized companies. OpenLogic said it will have two-to-four hour seminars, along with hands-on training and workshops.

NEW PRODUCTS
iRise created a set of visualization templates for SAP applications that the company said can be used as an alternative to writing code for proposed changes in SAP environments. iRise for SAP is a special version of the iRise Enterprise Edition, and its page templates and styles are aimed at accelerating the creation of SAP extensions and screens.

JetBrains released a beta version of Meta Programming System (MPS), an environment that uses language-oriented programming for building specialized languages for software development. Domain-specific languages and applications can be built and existing languages can be extended with MPS. The 1.0 release of MPS is planned for early 2009. It will be free, with a major part of its code being open source, according to JetBrains.

Mobile application company Everypoint has created the Nemo mobile application platform, which provides what the company calls high-performance vector graphics and direct-to-consumer distribution of applications. Nemo has a database for real-time replication and synchronization of all content types, along with usage analytics and single sign-on access to an application directory.

UPDATES
DataDirect Technologies has added the DataDirect Bulk Load feature to the newest release of its Connect for ADO.NET data connectivity product. The new feature brings bulk load functionality for the .NET platform to provide consistent semantics across all databases, the company said.

Netikus.net released a new version of EventSentry, its Windows event log, compliance reporting and network monitoring suite. Event Sentry 2.9 brings improved open-source Web reporting and new compliance reporting, as well as file access tracking and uptime monitoring.

Embedded Linux company MontaVista Software has added the ability for MontaVista Linux to work with ARM’s ARM1176JZ-S and ARM1176JZF-S processors. The company said this gives consumer device manufacturers a commercial-quality Linux implementation.

Open-source database management software provider Ingres has integrated Ingres Database 9.2 with SAP’s NetWeaver platform. As a result, SAP applications can access the database through an Ingres database. Ingres executives said this lets its customers do things like complement business intelligence processes from NetWeaver with data from Ingres products.

Original Software released a new version of its TestDrive software test automation product, adding interoperability with Java and Oracle Forms. Company executives said many business-critical applications are built in Oracle Forms, and TestDrive can intelligently understand and monitor these applications.

PEOPLE
Steve Messick has been named chief information officer of Instantiations, a provider of Eclipse-based commercial software. Messick is a co-founder of Instantiations and was previously its principal engineer. Prior to helping start the company in 1997, Messick was a senior engineer at Tektronix and also worked at Digitalk. In his new role, he will be responsible for overseeing strategic direction of the company’s product growth.

Mike Seashols has been named executive chairman of the board for VirtualLogix, a real-time virtualization software technology company for computing devices. Seashols has served as the CEO of a number of companies, including object-oriented database company Versant and content management software company Documentum.

Related Search Term(s): databases, embedded software, Linux, open source, outsourcing, security, testing, virtualization, DataDirect, Everypoint, Ingres, Instantiations, iRise, JetBrains, MontaVista, Murano, Netikus.net, OpenLogic, Original, SAP, VirtualLogix

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