The days of selling software through the traditional commercial model are numbered, as open source is becoming the paradigm of choice, said Greg Stein, chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, at the EclipseCon 2006 conference on Wednesday.
Microsoft's impending delivery of its Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server is the culmination of seven years of planning the company's entrance into the ALM (application lifecycle management) space.
IBM will announce on Friday open source software intended to improve the lot of Web developers building voice-enabled applications.
Sun Chairman/CEO Scott McNealy, in an email to Hewlett-Packard CEO/President Mark Hurd on Wednesday, is proposing convergence of HP's HP-UX Unix OS with Sun's Solaris 10 Unix OS.
Sun Microsystems on Tuesday plans to offer previews of the next releases of the enterprise version of Java and the NetBeans open source developer tools platform.
Seeking to more easily accommodate distributed development, IBM later this year plans to modernise its Rational software lifecycle management products to make them strictly Web-based.
Sun Microsystems on Wednesday is releasing a beta version of the next desktop version of Java, codenamed Project Mustang and officially known as Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6).
Oracle, with the newly shipping version of its free JDeveloper Java development tool, is looking to compete with the Eclipse open source juggernaut. The company is shipping an upgrade to its application server, bundled with a rules engine and an ESB (enterprise service bus).
Although deployments are occurring, a morass of complexity and a long, head-spinning list of proposed standards continues to hobble Web services technology, according to participants at an SDForum interoperability event.
IBM is announcing a developer tool to build systems used in specialty fields such as defense, medicine, and telecommunications networks.
If there was one key message at a public summit meeting of sorts between the chief executives of Sun Microsystems and Oracle on Tuesday, it was that the companies have been and will continue to be partners.
IBM is upgrading its software for managing enterprise software development projects, emphasizing best practices and integration with Rational tools.
Microsoft's December Community Technology Preview (CTP) for the Windows Vista client OS features a renamed version of the company's anti-spyware software. Announced on Monday, the December CTP, known as build 5270, will reach about 500,000 people through avenues such as the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) and TechNet, according to the company.
Microsoft, IBM, and SAP are discontinuing the UDDI Business Registry (UBR) project for Web services on January 12, according to Web-based bulletins from the three companies.
IBM Rational plans to enhance its application testing tools with support for Visual Studio 2005, Tivoli, and SAP.
