Borland Software has announced the latest incarnation of its Delphi RAD (rapid application development) environment, focusing on the toolkit's tighter integration with its Kylix Linux tools and the product's cross-platform interoperability. More importantly, Delphi's enhancements support Web services standards.
Less than one week after rival Oracle put the finishing touches on its pending 9i database and set a shipping date, IBM this week detailed a forthcoming version of DB2 UDB (Universal Database).
To put the growth of data in perspective, a University of California study predicts that after taking approximately 300,000 years for humans to generate 12 exabytes (an exabyte is over 1 million terabytes or a million trillion bytes) of information, the next 12 exabytes will be accumulated in just two and a half years.
IPlanet E-Commerce Solutions on Tuesday announced a set of developer tools and resources that it claims will reduce development cycles and deployment of J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) applications.
Using a name that smells like the one Microsoft chose when it shipped SQL Server 2000 last summer, Oracle on Tuesday announced that its combined OLAP (online analytical processing) tools and data mining technology will be dubbed Advanced Analytic Services in the forthcoming 9i database.
Microsoft announced on Wednesday a new version of its SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) toolkit and said that the forthcoming version of Windows will natively support SOAP.
WebGain has announced Application Composer, software that enables Visual Basic and other non-Java developers to build applications and deploy them on a J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) platform.
While the major companies promoting Web services are garnering the lion's share of attention, a number of smaller US companies are expected this week to announce products that enable the building and delivering of Web services.
A US-based startup will next week launch an ASP (application service provider)-model service for Web developers. Westside, the HRAD (hosted rapid application development) service, takes the same name as the company and is aimed at small to mid-size companies as well as enterprises that requite departmental-level application development.
Microsoft announced yesterday a beta version of its first update of the Visio drawing and diagramming software suite, which the software giant acquired through its purchase of Visio, first announced in September 1999.
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy and other company executives on Monday detailed the company's new software strategy, dubbed Sun ONE.
Looking to increase its market share in the red-hot application server fray, Oracle on Tuesday released the first update to its 9i Application Server.
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) on Wednesday formed a technical committee to develop a specification for XML message interfaces that will support the coordination and processing of Web services from different organisations.
The use of Java to build application servers is gaining in popularity and is in fact dominating that market. Two leading vendors in this realm, BEA Systems and iPlanet, have been certified for the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform specification from Sun Microsystems. IBM is likely to follow suit.
Late to the Web services game, Sun Microsystems is preparing a development framework that will enable programmers to build applications accessible via the Internet.
