News Briefs: February 1, 2009

By SD Times News Team

February 3, 2009 —

COMPANIES
Intrinsyc Software, a provider of software products for mobile and embedded devices, completed an engineering services agreement with Unitech Electronics, a manufacturer and supplier of Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) products. Intrinsyc developed a data collection terminal for Unitech on Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded CE. Unitech executives said Intrinsyc’s technology provided power management capabilities that will help it in the AIDC market.

Shunra Software, a provider of WAN emulation and software development testing products, has joined Microsoft’s Visual Studio Industry Partners (VSIP) Program. The VSIP Program provides technical and marketing help to members that have integrated their products with Visual Studio. The program has around 200 members, among them Altova, Borland Software, CA and JetBrains.

Computer programming contest company TopCoder will be holding its annual TopCoder Open, a contest that has nine competitions for software professionals. The contests center around algorithms, architecture, component design and development, along with other areas. The online competition starts this month, and finalists will be announced June 1–4. To register or find out more information, visit www.topcoder.com/reg.

NEW PRODUCTS
AlertSite, a company that creates Web-based services and application products, has released a Web performance monitoring product that gives information on the availability, load times and response times of Web-based applications. InSite provides a customizable viewpoint on the availability and performance of enterprise applications, according to the company.

UPDATES
Adobe has created a full version of its LiveCycle ES Developer Express software for the Amazon Web Services cloud computing environment. LiveCycle ES is used to build PDF applications, and Adobe executives said developers gain a virtual, self-contained environment to test applications without having to install and configure LiveCycle ES.

Aldon has included new deployment capabilities in the latest version of its Aldon Lifecycle Manager software change management product. The capabilities make application redeployment easier, according to the company. Aldon Lifecycle Manager 5.4 lets users define sets of deployment targets so deployment scripts don’t have to be written.

Web application security company Armorize Technologies has released a new version of its CodeSecure static source code analysis and verification product. CodeSecure 3.0 has analysis capabilities for ASP.NET, Java/J2EE and PHP, as well as new reporting features to identify vulnerable entry points. There is also integration with Microsoft Active Directory for improved user and group management.

Eiffel Software, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based creator of object-oriented products, released a new version of its EiffelStudio IDE. EiffelStudio 6.3 has features for creating manual or automatic test cases, as well as the ability to use attached types in a compiler. It is available on Linux, .NET, Solaris 10 Windows Classic and other platforms.

Raxco Software, a provider of disk defragmentation software, has added integration with Windows 7 to a new version of its defrag product, PerfectDisk. The new version (version 10) maintains Microsoft’s current certifications, including Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Raxco said.

PEOPLE
Bill Bartow has become vice president of worldwide marketing for dynaTrace Software. Bartow was previously a marketing executive for Netegrity, a software security company that was acquired by CA in 2004. More recently, Bartow headed marketing and product management for database security company Tizor Systems.

Greg Symon has been named vice president and general manager of North American sales for Red Hat. Prior to Red Hat, Symon held senior sales management positions during a 22-year tenure with Intel Corporation. He most recently served as senior managing director and founder of Intel’s Global Software Relations organization within the company's Software Solutions Group.

Former Red Hat COO Tim Buckley has joined enterprise application deployment company rPath as executive chairman of its board of directors. Buckley has over 20 years of experience with technology startups and was hired by Red Hat as COO in 1999. More recently, he founded Buckley Investments, a Raleigh, N.C.-based consulting company.

Related Search Term(s): change management, cloud computing, embedded development, monitoring, networking, security, testing, virtualization, Visual Studio, Windows, Adobe, Aldon, AlertSite, Armorize, dynaTrace, Intrinsyc, Raxco, Red Hat, rPath, Shunra, TopCoder, Unitech

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