Microsoft offering SAAS guidance
Microsoft has released architectural guidance for organisations looking to offer SAAS (software as a service).
Microsoft has released architectural guidance for organisations looking to offer SAAS (software as a service).
JetBrains is now accommodating Ruby developers with the company's IntelliJ Idea Java IDE. A beta plug-in released Feb. 1 enables the product to serve as an IDE for developing Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications, the company said. Ruby is a popular dynamic scripting language; Ruby on Rails is an open source Web framework that leverages Ruby.
Unisys has announced an expansion of its relationship with Oracle to move mainframe and Unix deployments over to Linux and SOA.
Citing a mistaken filing, Microsoft has abandoned a patent application for technology in its Visual Studio software development platform that originated outside the company, a Microsoft representative said on Tuesday.
Compuware, Parasoft, and AutomatedQA this week plan to offer products to improve software development processes, with Compuware focused on quality assurance, Parasoft on SOA testing, and AutomatedQA on build and release management.
Building on its Jazz strategy for collaboratively building software, IBM Rational will offer versions of its products geared toward global cooperative development with an eye toward boosting SOA in 2007.
Nexaweb on Monday is expanding its Enterprise Web 2.0 application platform, adding a client framework for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and Java as well as Web services enhancements.
Sun Microsystems is sprucing up its Solaris 10 operating system with security and virtualization improvements.
Emphasizing SOA, the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) on Monday is publishing draft documents on Web services and security, and seeks public feedback.
Newly christened CodeGear, Borland Software's subsidiary offering developer tools, is ready to make its first major product announcement.
Instead of selling its tools unit as had been planned, Borland Software will spin off its Developer Tools Group into a wholly owned subsidiary, called CodeGear.
Microsoft during the next 12 to 18 months plans a barrage of announcements unequaled during any period in the company's history, a Microsoft official said on Monday evening.
Microsoft's planned "Hawaii" release of its Visual Studio development platform may feature modularisation, a Microsoft business partner said. But Microsoft officials are remaining mostly tightlipped about the project.
Oracle's and Microsoft's moves to accommodate Linux show how important it is to have an operating system, said Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz, promoting Sun's own Solaris OS.
Demonstrating a perhaps more aggressive path than anticipated, Sun Microsystems is set to announce the open-sourcing of the core Java platform within 30 to 60 days, Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz said at the Oracle OpenWorld conference on Wednesday.