InfoWorld.com articles from August 2006

InfoWorld.com archives from August 2006

Red flag raised over NAC security; Security expert tells Black Hat briefing the current crop of products is riddled with holes.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Paul F. Roberts Network access control technology has been promoted as the savior of beleaguered enterprise networks, but enterprise IT managers who are hanging their hat on client health screening should think again, according to...

Researchers: Management apps could pose security risk; Lax security, coding poses enterprise botnet risk.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Paul F. Roberts Insecure coding and loose deployments of enterprise management applications could turn anti-virus, patch management and systems management applications into powerful and malicious botnets, according to research...

Borland revives 'Turbo' for developer tools; Turbo Explorer will be available for beginners as a free download, and Turbo Professional will offer advanced features for less than $500.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Borland Software will bring back the Turbo product moniker on Tuesday with the introduction of language-specific developer tools. The Turbo name had been prominent as part of the company's Turbo Pascal product. The...

Oracle readies SOA Suite preview featuring single install; Company officials talk about middleware, tools.
August 8, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Oracle within two weeks plans to offer a developer's preview of Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3, which features a single-install procedure for all components. The suite packages Oracle Fusion Middleware products for...

VMware comes to Apple; The new product will let users run any x86 operating system on Mac OS X.
August 9, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Mears, Network World VMware is bringing its virtualization technology to Intel-based Apple computers, giving Mac users the ability to run multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris, in virtual...

Developers cope with Leopard; Apple's WWDC delights and terrifies software developers at the same time as they grapple with a new OS upgrade.
August 10, 2006... Byline: Jim Dalrymple, Macworld.com For the people who create Mac software, there's nothing quite as exciting as a Worldwide Developers Conference keynote that previews the features slated to appear in an upcoming OS X overhaul. And...

Lattix offers software architecture management for .Net; Technology searches for unwanted dependencies.
August 10, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Lattix is extending its software architecture management product, which examines architectural dependencies, to .Net projects. Developers and architects involved in Microsoft .Net-based software projects now can...

Microsoft offers fix for Visual Basic 2005 compiler; Issues cited with large projects.
August 11, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Issues with use of Microsoft's Visual Basic 2005 compiler in large projects have prompted the company to release a QFE (Quick Fix Engineering) update to address major problems. The compiler was released as part of...

Palamida, Black Duck advance IP wares at LinuxWorld; Automation tool to check code is unveiled.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Palamida and Black Duck Software, both of which provide intellectual property compliance services, are using the occasion of the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco this week to reveal product expansions. ...

Ruby shining on .Net Down Under; Aussie developers ready compiler for scripting language.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Developers in Australia are working on a Ruby compiler that converts Ruby source code into Microsoft's Common Intermediate Language (CIL) for execution on Microsoft's .Net Framework 2.0 platform. Created at the...

IBM positions mainframes for SOA; Tivoli products help manage workloads, secure SOA.
August 15, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill IBM at the SHARE conference in Baltimore on Tuesday is previewing Tivoli management software for its System z mainframes that is intended to boost the platform's standing in SOA and Internet computing. Four upgraded...

ActiveGrid to move tools to Eclipse; LAMP proponent also will become member of open source organization.
August 16, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill San Francisco - ActiveGrid, which calls itself the "Enterprise Web 2.0 company," is moving its tooling over to the Eclipse open source environment and will join the Eclipse Foundation as well. All of the company's...

JBoss making SOA play with BPEL, ESB; Parent company Red Hat, meanwhile, readies Linux upgrade.
August 16, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Raising its profile in the SOA space, JBoss is readying upgrades to its jBPM (Java Business Process Management) software to support the 1.1 and 2.0 versions of BPEL (Business Process Execution Language). The open source...

Dell, Sony discussed battery problem 10 months ago; Sony made changes to minimize the problem but did not recall suspect batteries because it wasn't clear that they were dangerous.
August 18, 2006... Byline: Paul F. Roberts Dell and Sony knew about and discussed manufacturing problems with Sony-made Lithium-Ion batteries as long as ten months ago, but held off on issuing a recall until those flaws were clearly linked to catastrophic...

Borland prepares to run Gauntlet for ALM; Product to automate software builds, tests.
August 18, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Just because Borland Software is exiting the developer tools business does not mean the company will not be tending to enterprise application developers, says Borland's Rob Cheng, director of developer solutions. To this...

Microsoft looks to accommodate dynamic languages; Executive cites community efforts as lynchpin.
August 18, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill and Doug Dineley The growing popularity of dynamic languages, such as Perl, Python, and Ruby -- which are popular for building Web applications -- has caused companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems...

Microsoft backs Firefox on MSDN Wiki; Browser support expanded beyond Internet Explorer.
August 22, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill In a concession to the open source software paradigm, Microsoft has added support for the Mozilla Firefox browser to its MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) Wiki, company officials are reporting this week. Currently...

BEA buys repository maker Flashline; Company to add metadata repository to AquaLogic family.
August 23, 2006... Byline: Paul F. Roberts BEA Systems said on Wednesday that it was buying metadata repository vendor Flashline of Cleveland, Ohio, for an undisclosed sum. The deal is the second acquisition involving a metadata repository maker this...

Nexaweb enhancing 'Enterprise Web 2.0' apps; Eclipse-based environment lessens hand-coding needs.
August 23, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Nexaweb is enhancing business logic integration, data visualization, and visual editing in its Eclipse-based development environment for "Enterprise Web 2.0" applications. Available now, the Nexaweb Studio 2.4...

WinFX name change found irksome; petition circulates; Microsoft has re-branded the technology as .Net Framework 3.0. Now, some want the old name back.
August 23, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft's recent renaming of its WinFX technology set to .Net Framework 3.0 has drawn the ire of some users, and a petition to change it back is circulating online. As of noon Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday,...

IBM unveils slimmed-down portal software; Portal Server is cheaper and faster to set up than Portal Enable and Portal Extend.
August 24, 2006... Byline: Dan Goodin IBM unveiled an addition to its WebSphere Portal product lineup, introducing an entry-level offering aimed at small and medium sized businesses. WebSphere Portal Server, being announced today, is a slimmed-down...

BEA advancing high-performance apps platform; Low latency is highlighted in WebLogic Real Time Core Edition 1.1.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill BEA Systems on Monday is launching an upgrade to its high-performance application platform, WebLogic Real Time Core Edition 1.1, featuring lower latency and runtime analysis. The product includes the WebLogic Express 9.2...

BMC updates batch management; Control-M introduces agentless batch management.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Eric Knorr BMC Whips Up a Better Batch In a real-time world, batch processing has all the sex appeal of an old gray filing cabinet, but as Gur Steif, a product marketing vice president for BMC, said, "Almost every Web...

Google unveils Office rival; Pack of online productivity apps includes several Google services, but not Writely or Google Spreadsheets.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Ted Samson With Microsoft Office clearly in its long-range sights, Google today launched a package of Web-based productivity apps. The offering, called Google Apps for Your Domain, comprises Google services that all have seen...

Intel offers developers help with apps for multicore CPUs; New tools gauge threading issues.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Intel on Monday is shipping three threading tools to enable developers to better take advantage of newfangled multicore processors. The tools include Threading Building Blocks 1.0, a C++ runtime library to introduce...

Oracle positions database tool as scripting alternative; But product only works with company's own databases.
August 29, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Offering an alternative to popular scripting languages, Oracle on Tuesday is announcing availability of an upgrade to its free tool for building Web applications that access Oracle databases. Oracle Application...

JavaScript, .Net developers aided in separate projects; Ease of use and documentation are focuses of open source and Microsoft efforts; Sun looks to improve non-Java tool.
August 31, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill JavaScript and .Net developers are getting helping hands in application-building efforts, through separate projects intended to make it easier to use JavaScript and to document .Net projects. Sun Microsystems,...