InfoWorld.com articles from December 2006

InfoWorld.com archives from December 2006

RSA's Coviello making good on billion-dollar promise; Former RSA CEO says the honeymoon's still on at EMC.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Paul F. Roberts It's been more than two months since EMC officially exchanged rings in the $2.1 billion courtship of RSA Security, but former RSA chief Art Coviello says the honeymoon's still going on, and that he's happy to take a...

AmberPoint extends SOA management platform; New Tibco offering amongst products now accommodated.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill AmberPoint on Monday is extending its AmberPoint SOA runtime governance suite to Tibco's new ActiveMatrix SOA platform and more application servers. The 5.2 version of the suite features the AmberPoint SOA Management...

Microsoft advancing design tools platform; Expression Studio to feature digital asset management.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Eyeing the rich application design space, Microsoft on Monday is detailing milestones in its Expression design tools platform, including the introduction of Expression Media to manage video files, images, and fonts. ...

IBM extends SOA tools for desktop; Rational products are tuned for architecture enhancements.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Focusing on the global architecture of SOA, IBM on Tuesday is introducing IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform 7.0 for the desktop. The product unveiling features a multitude of integrated products tweaked to the...

Spring Framework is in the air; Java-based technology the focus of open source development conference this week.
December 6, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Although Java itself was only offered up to open source last month, many open source development projects have arisen around Java already. One of the better known ones, the Spring Framework, will be the subject of a...

Eclipse clears developer clutter; Mylar task manager is readied.
December 11, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill The Eclipse Foundation, with an open source technology release on Monday, hopes to alleviate developers of clutter. Eclipse Mylar 1.0 is a task-focused user interface that reduces information overload and makes it...

Sun Solaris getting security, virtualization boosts; Open source Xen hypervisor set for inclusion in 2007.
December 11, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Sun Microsystems is sprucing up its Solaris 10 operating system with security and virtualization improvements. Today's release of Solaris 10 11/06 is intended to make Solaris the most secure OS in existence, said Tom...

WS-I moves forward on interoperability, SOA; Guidance documents released in draft form.
December 11, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Emphasizing SOA, the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) on Monday is publishing draft documents on Web services and security, and seeks public feedback. SOA architects have been awaiting these...

U.S. Education Secretary urges reforms for math, science; Barriers limit new approaches, Spellings says.
December 12, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Mountain View, Calif. - Speaking at Microsoft's Silicon Valley offices, U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on Tuesday suggested allowing willing specialists to teach math and science part-time to stem the skills...

Adobe tackles browser incompatibilities; Web site features information to fix problems.
December 14, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Honing in on browser incompatibility issues in Web development, Adobe Systems on Thursday is announcing CSS Advisor, a Web site that documents these problems and offers solutions. The site, which goes live on Friday,...

Google to offer domain registration services; Service works with Google Apps for Your Domain.
December 14, 2006... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Google announced on Thursday evening that a domain name search and registration service will be added to its Google Apps for Your Domain offering. Google will partner with GoDaddy and eNom, two domain...

webMethods adds AJAX to SOA suite; Metadata capabilities also emphasized.
December 14, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill WebMethods on Monday will roll out the webMethods Fabric 7.0 suite for business process integration and SOA, adding a registry, metadata management and an AJAX developer tool. The suite keys in on business process...

AutomatedQA adds Vista tests; App dev tool is upgraded.
December 18, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill AutomatedQA on Monday is unveiling its TestComplete 5 application testing environment, which adds support for Windows Vista applications. Built for automated testing, TestComplete 5 makes development of tests easier,...

Nexaweb upgrades Web 2.0 platform; Multiplatform client framework is featured.
December 18, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill 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. Also featured is...

FedEx seeks improved software testing; Package shipper involved in research project with university.
December 19, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Believing current software testing approaches are antiquated, FedEx is working with the University of Memphis to take testing to its next steps. The package delivery company has commissioned the university to...

Cobol lives on; Micro Focus CEO notes continued prominence of legacy programming language.
December 20, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Cobol may not make headlines much these days, with technologies such as Java and .Net viewed as the glamorous, contemporary platforms and Cobol seen as legacy code. But Cobol remains pervasive throughout enterprises,...

Microsoft strengthens developer collaboration tool; Features toad support, branching capabilities.
December 22, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft this week upgraded a tool enabling multiple IDEs to access the company's collaboration server for application lifecycle management, adding branching enhancements. Team Foundation Server MSSCCI (Microsoft...

Beyond search: Google specialty services; The undisputed king of search is about much more than just keywords, text ads, and ten-per-page results.
December 28, 2006... Byline: Dennis O'Reilly, PC World Even people who have never opened a Web browser in their life know about Google -- but the undisputed king of search is about much more than just keywords, text ads, and ten-per-page results. Here's a...