InfoWorld.com articles from November 2006

InfoWorld.com archives from November 2006

TechExcel touts unified ALM; Company launches suite of products with unified approach to lifecycle management.
November 1, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill TechExcel on Wednesday is launching DevSuite, which the company positions as a unified platform for the enterprise application lifecycle management space. Featuring upgrades to three existing products as well as a...

Zend hails PHP for Microsoft, IBM; Interview: Zend cofounder Andi Gutmans also waxes on Java, Oracle.
November 3, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Zend Technologies is perhaps the first name in PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), the popular open-source scripting language for Web development. The company both participates in development of PHP and offers products around...

Sun's CEO cites OS as differentiator; Oracle, Microsoft Linux deals point up the importance of an OS, Schwartz says.
November 3, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Oracle's and Microsoft's moves to accommodate Linux show how important it is to have an operating system, Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz said Thursday, promoting Sun's own...

Microsoft releases .Net Framework 3.0; Microsoft is backing the RTM with Visual Studio 2005 extensions for the .Net Framework 3.0.
November 6, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill LAS VEGAS - Microsoft's .Net Framework 3.0, featuring the company's latest innovations in Web services, presentation and workflow, is now available to developers, the company said on Monday. The availability of the...

Microsoft's Visual Studio may be modularized; Hawaii project is a long-range effort.
November 6, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Las Vegas -- Microsoft's planned "Hawaii" release of its Visual Studio development platform may feature modularization, a Microsoft business partner said on Monday. But Microsoft officials are remaining mostly...

Aruba enters fixed mobile convergence market; Company is one of the first WLAN vendors to offer network integration with cellular.
November 7, 2006... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz VoIP (voice over IP) appears to be the driving force that will accelerate the move to what the telecom industry is calling fixed-mobile converged [FMC] devices, which are mainly handsets that can switch...

Microsoft plans product barrage; Next 12 to 18 months to feature the most ambitious launch schedule ever seen, Microsoft exec says.
November 7, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill LAS VEGAS -- 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. The product rollouts began...

Bit9 adds malware code IDs to app database; ParityCenter aims to be 'Google of files' and help to identify trustworthy apps.
November 7, 2006... Byline: Paul F. Roberts Application control vendor Bit9 said on Tuesday that an update to the company's Parity product will add malicious code IDs to the ParityCenter database of applications, allowing administrators to determine the...

Microsoft embraces AJAX, IronPython; Software giant details dynamic scripting efforts.
November 7, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Las Vegas -- Microsoft on Tuesday further embraced dynamic scripting, revealing AJAX-friendly (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) enhancements planned for the upcoming Visual Studio "Orcas" tools platforms and a marriage...

In Brief: Xora, Garmin team up on navigation for mobile workers.
November 7, 2006... Byline: InfoWorld.com staff Xora and Garmin International announced Tuesday that Garmin’s navigation technology is now available in Xora's GPS TimeTrack solution. Xora used Garmin's LBS Toolkit to provide mobile workers with...

IBM clips RFID’s wings to stop private data’s flight; Clipped Tags, to ship this week, allow consumers to control range of RFID tags, reducing privacy concerns.
November 8, 2006... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Trying to balance the cost-saving benefits of RFID with consumers’ privacy concerns, IBM's Watson Research Center has developed a technology dubbed Clipped Tag. Set to ship this week, the tags, made by...

Ruby on Rails stakes out Java’s turf; Theme of Ruby on Rails Camp event was using Ruby in business applications, but topics ranged from Rails security to deploying it to abate global warming.
November 9, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill SAN JOSE, Calif. – Look out, Java. Ruby on Rails is staking out your turf. But all is not lost for Java, which still enjoys advantages in areas such as security, based on feedback at the Ruby on Rails Camp...

Web 2.0 Summit in review: Long tails, forgotten trails; Who’s-who Web community does group hug, bucks get lucky mentality of Web 1.0.
November 10, 2006... Byline: David L. Margulius The Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week was intended as a gathering of the best Internet minds talking strategy, but at times it felt like a big group hug: “Congratulations, we survived the bubble...

Xcalia assists with service access; Intermediation technology is featured.
November 10, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Focused on SOA, Xcalia next week will roll out XIC (Xcalia Intermediation Core) version 5.0, for building composite applications in which it can be decided at runtime how the applications access data and service...

Tibco, Savvion, Cape Clear tout BPM, BAM; Free tool offered by Tibco.
November 13, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Business process management and business activity monitoring are the focuses this week for Tibco Software, Cape Clear Software, and Savvion, with Tibco offering a free tool in hopes of spurring sales of its full BPM...

Google puts a face on Google Apps; Start Page to aggregate e-mail, calendar, and IM.
November 13, 2006... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz This week, Google will put a face on Google Apps for Your Domain, released as beta last August, when it unveils Start Page, a customizable home page for single users and organizations that will aggregate all of the...

Sun CEO: Open source Java is "momentous"; Company still to maintain commercial variant.
November 13, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Santa Clara, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems's offering of the Java platform via open source under the GNU General Public License is a "momentous" change, said Sun President/CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Monday. But IBM wants the...

Borland changes course, will spin off tools group; Wholly owned subsidiary, CodeGear, is unveiled.
November 14, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill 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, the company said on Tuesday afternoon. CodeGear will be...

SaaS providers upgrades offline capabilities; Entellium is the first to allow users to download full solution.
November 14, 2006... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Moving downstream to capture the smallest end of the SMB market, Entellium announced today Rave CRM for workgroups and companies with as many as 10 users down to single operator businesses. The six-year-old...

Dems score with better data; DNC's Linux warehousing project delivered on '50-state strategy'.
November 15, 2006... Behind every big success these days, there's probably some darned good IT making it happen. That appears to be the case in the surprising electoral victory by the Democratic Party last week. New data warehouse solutions commissioned by the...

Gates, McNealy, Schwarzenegger at tech summit; Vista, Web 3.0, energy issues are covered.
November 15, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Stanford, Calif. -- Attendees at the TechNet Innovation Summit event at Stanford University on Wednesday got more than they bargained for. Besides an hour of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and panels featuring Sun...

Gates stresses technology to help the poor; Microsoft chairman receives humanitarian award.
November 16, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill SAN JOSE, Calif. -- In town to receive an award for humanitarian efforts, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday evening urged that technology be used to help the poor. Doing so can raise the world's standard of...

JBoss joins ESB fray; Company also prepares app server upgrade.
November 20, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Filling out its open source middleware stack, JBoss on Monday is unveiling its ESB (enterprise service bus) as well as revealing core technologies planned for an upcoming application server upgrade. Announcements are...

Borland's CodeGear upgrades Java IDE; Eclipse-friendly JBuilder 2007 is set.
November 20, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Newly christened CodeGear, Borland Software's subsidiary offering developer tools, will make its first major product announcement on Monday. Set to be unveiled is the company's JBuilder 2007 IDE for Java, open...

Castle built for .Net; Open source project looks to assist developers.
November 21, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Castle, which is an open source project to ease development on Microsoft's .Net platform, is nearing its general release. Spawned out of the defunct Apache Avalon object-oriented framework, Castle is built as a set...

Google adds indexing tools for News portal; Publishers and webmasters will use a site map to indicate the articles they want Google News to index.
November 21, 2006... Byline: Juan Carlos Perez and Mike Barton Google Inc. has developed new tools it says will make it easier for webmasters and publishers of news sites to control how the search engine indexes their content for inclusion in the Google News...

Open source Java presents world of opportunities; Developers, others hail move, but some unimpressed.
November 22, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Now that Java is going open source, what exactly does that mean? Developers and others worldwide say it opens up a world of possibilities. New opportunities are presented on Linux as well as in the desktop and...

Telelogic eyes SOA with developer release; Tau 3.0 geared for building multiple types of enterprise applications.
November 27, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Telelogic on Monday is announcing availability of Telelogic Tau 3.0, a model-driven development environment that the company is positioning for SOA. With Tau 3.0, engineers can graphically design large software...

Intel to put pre-standard 802.11n in Centrino; Chipmaker sees wide acceptance of multimedia WiFi.
November 28, 2006... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz During a presentation at the IEEE Globecom 2006 Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday, Alan Crouch, director and general manager at Intel's Communications Technology Lab told the audience to expect Intel to put a...

Oracle launches identity governance project; IGF aims for consistent identity data across applications.
November 29, 2006... Byline: Paul F. Roberts Oracle on Wednesday announced a new project to tackle one of the thorniest problems facing enterprises: the proliferation of sensitive identity information across enterprise networks. The Identity Governance...