News Briefs: January 15, 2009

By SD Times News Team

January 15, 2009 —

COMPANIES
Coverity has partnered with software security company Cigital to help enterprises deliver complex software by finding and fixing defects earlier in the software development life cycle, executives of the two companies said. Cigital will use Coverity technology to improve code quality, while Coverity products will have a more secure software development life cycle with Cigital.

NEW PRODUCTS
Outsourced product development and consulting company Scio Consulting has created services for assisting small and medium-sized software companies in transitioning products to run in a software-as-a-service environment. SaaS Acceleration Solutions is made up of three components: SaaS Evaluation Readiness, which offers business planning, market analysis and application evaluation; SaaS Technical Assessment, which identifies potential performance and security issues; and SaaS Application Development Services, which leverage software development resources for building SaaS applications.

Mobile device software company Sierra Wireless has made available a software development kit for developing on Linux. The SDK provides access to the Sierra Wireless Command and Status API that includes commands for voice, data connections and SMS.

UPDATES
Business application company 4D has added text-indexing capabilities to version 2.0 of its Knowledgebase information resource for developers building business applications on the 4D platform. Included in Knowledgebase 2.0 are a new UI, with a docking ability, and customization options that allow users to create their own list of display items.

Adobe has created a Linux version of Adobe AIR 1.5, its rich Internet application runtime. AIR 1.5 includes functionality introduced in Adobe Flash Player 10, such as the ability to use custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, and extensible rich text layout. Adobe AIR 1.5 is also available for Windows and Mac OS X.

SOA governance specialist AmberPoint has added integration between its SOA governance and management products and the Microsoft platform. With AmberPoint’s integration with Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Microsoft Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration, organizations running applications on WCF can ensure the wellbeing of their distributed composite applications, the company said.

REAL Software has released a new version of its REALbasic cross-platform development environment for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows developers. REALbasic 2008 Release 5 can print source code in color and duplicate methods, properties, and constants. The new version also lets users write their own tools to help automate application building.

Red Hat has created a software maintenance service for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which allows customers to standardize on a single update release for up to 18 months. Extended Update Support can reduce the amount of testing and revalidation that has to be performed annually on software stacks, and it lets users run systems undisturbed for longer periods of time.

Enterprise application company rPath has added interoperability with Ubuntu and CentOS Linux to its rBuilder build and release manager. The additions to rBuilder build on existing interoperability with Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise and rPath’s own Linux distribution.

Software engineering company Visible Systems has added integration with IBM Telelogic’s Rhapsody IDE to the newest version of its Razor modeler. Razor 5.3’s integration with IBM Telelogic Rhapsody enables Razor users to perform all of the routine version control functions while working within the Rhapsody IDE, according to the company.

Related Search Term(s): Linux, outsourcing, RIAs, SaaS, security, SOA, 4D, Adobe, AmberPoint, Cigital, Coverity, IBM, REAL Software, Red Hat, rPath, Scio Consulting, Sierra Wireless, Visible Systems

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IBM distinguished engineer talks SOA security Raj Nagaratnam, an IBM distinguished engineer, told SD Times that federated identity management, coupled with policy, will play an increasingly significant role in securing SOA applications.

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