InfoWorld.com articles from October 2006

InfoWorld.com archives from October 2006

Tools wrap: Borland unveils Gauntlet apps tester; Borland, CollabNet, Electric Cloud focus on application lifecycle management, collaboration.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Borland Software, CollabNet, and Electric Cloud are rolling out products for ALM (application lifecycle management) and collaboration this week, including a preview of Borland's Gauntlet, for early quality control. ...

Tibco to open source, upgrade AJAX toolkit; General Interface gets Firefox 1.5 support.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Tibco Software on Monday is announcing its intention to offer its General Interface rich Internet application toolkit via an open source format. The product, based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), is being made...

AJAX: Roller skates for the Web; Founder of the term advises caution but also stresses benefits of Web development approach.
October 3, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web application development can be roller skates for the Web; it must be used appropriately or it can be dangerous, said Jesse James Garrett, the IT...

Interview: Microsoft, Apple eyed for AJAX alliance; IBM's Boloker also discusses scripting technique's security issues.
October 6, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill In February, a group of technology vendors, including BEA Systems, Google, IBM, and Oracle, formed the OpenAjax Alliance, with the goal of promoting the popular AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web development...

Iona upgrades ESB with SOA management, orchestration; Artix 4.1 can integrate with AmberPoint system.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Iona on Tuesday is introducing Version 4.1 of its Artix ESB, featuring integration with the AmberPoint SOA management platform, as well as orchestration capabilities. Through this integration, users can manage Aritx...

Sun, Laszlo take Java into Orbit for devices; AJAX-style platform getting link to mobile environment.
October 10, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Sun Microsystems and Laszlo Systems are collaborating to enable applications based on the OpenLaszlo rich Internet development platform to run on devices running Java Platform ME (Micro Edition). The collaboration,...

Microsoft offers Office integration for backend apps; Office Business Applications [OBA] is non-vendor specific.
October 11, 2006... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz With the release of Office Business Applications (OBA) Reference Application Pack (RAP) this week, Microsoft in essence is acknowledging that they are on to something big in the enterprise market. Microsoft is...

Vista's DRM features could bedevil AV; Protected Processes feature in question.
October 12, 2006... Byline: Paul F. Roberts A security researcher is raising concerns about a digital rights management feature in Microsoft's new Vista operating system that he claims may make it easy for malicious code authors to block anti-virus programs...

Apache highlights open source projects; Java framework, content management system among those being touted at ApacheCon.
October 13, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Open source technologies including Apache's Struts Java development framework and Jackrabbit content repository were among the projects debuting or getting upgraded at the ApacheCon conference in Austin, Texas, this...

Credit card industry set to shake up high tech; As Visa requirements proliferate applications will be forced to comply.
October 13, 2006... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz For those who know how to read between the lines, the announcement this week by Payment Processing Inc. [PPI] of training courses to meet VISA compliance guidelines for application developers, service providers and...

Flapjax on the griddle for Web apps; AJAX-based technology debuts.
October 13, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Flapjax, an open source programming language leveraging AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and geared toward easier development of Web applications, made its debut this week. Flapjax is "designed around the...

SAP to license NetWeaver to non-customer developers; For the first time SAP will open up license program to one and all.
October 13, 2006... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz In a long-anticipated change in policy, SAP will announce next week at its TechEd conference in Amsterdam it will make NetWeaver licenses available to individual developers. Up until now SAP delivered its...

Vista's DRM features could bedevil AV; Protected Processes feature in question.
October 13, 2006... Byline: Paul F. Roberts A security researcher is raising concerns about a digital rights management feature in Microsoft's new Vista operating system that he claims may make it easy for malicious code authors to block anti-virus programs...

JBoss awakens Hibernate with persistence API; Object/relational mapping software is upgraded.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill In the tedious world of middleware, the complexities of technologies can be difficult to grasp for the layman. But open source middleware vendor JBoss has put forth a straightforward description of what its new Hibernate...

iPass to expand remote management; New tools enforce corporate policy.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz As mobile and remote access becomes more commonplace over a variety of wireless and wired networks, third party outsource providers are expanding their management services to the enterprise. This week iPass...

Update: Excuses on iPod virus not credible; Redmond virus scanning expert offers to help clean up iPod mess.
October 18, 2006... Byline: Paul F. Roberts Security and quality assurance experts reacted negatively to Apple Computer's efforts Tuesday to blame manufacturing problems that resulted in iPod MP3 players shipping with a virus that affects Microsoft's Windows...

AJAX made easier Down Under; Tasmanian company readies an IDE to mask scripting complexities.
October 19, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Seeing a need to make AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web development easier, Tasmania, Australia-based Morfik later this year plans to offer Version 1.0 of WebOS AppsBulder, an IDE that lets developers program in...

ENTERPRISE WINDOWS: Visiting Vista RC2, Part One; With final code mere weeks away, Microsoft has to iron out some interoperability wrinkles.
October 19, 2006... Byline: Oliver Rist You know I had to do it. After the piece about my week using only browser-based "Web 2.0" office productivity applications, it just wouldn't have been fair not to do one on a week in Office 2007 Beta. And I figured...

NetBeans IDE upgrade readied for SOA; Sun also ponders Java language, platform differentiations.
October 20, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Focusing on open source efforts, Sun Microsystems officials this week provided informational updates on the NetBeans IDE and GlassFish application server, noting that NetBeans will have an SOA bent and be extended for...

AmberPoint improves SOA policy execution; Agentless architecture is unveiled.
October 23, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill The next release of the AmberPoint SOA Management System decouples policy enforcement from the agents that have executed these policies, letting third-party systems such as enterprise service buses execute policies. ...

Sun's Rich Green: Open source Java due in late-2006, 2007; Executive also discusses CEO shift.
October 23, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Rich Green is in his second incarnation at Sun Microsystems, returning in May as executive vice president for software at the company. He is responsible for the Solaris Enterprise System, including the Solaris OS, the...

Microsoft moves on AJAX; Company releases beta of former Atlas technology.
October 23, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft has released a beta version of its AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) programming technology, formerly code-named Atlas and now called Microsoft ASP.Net AJAX v1.0. AJAX has become a popular technique...

SAS launches model manager product; Application audits and tracks models for version control.
October 23, 2006... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Finding itself in the unusual position of playing catch-up, SAS announced SAS Model Manager today at its annual M2006 Data Mining Conference in Las Vegas. Rival analytic firms SPSS and Teradata, a division of...

HP, Oracle, Intel eye mainframe migrations; Application Modernization Initiative features SOA, grid.
October 24, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill Eyeing the fertile market of IBM mainframe installations, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, and Intel on Tuesday will detail a program that incorporates SOA and grid concepts in helping migrate mainframe applications. The...

Oracle pitches SOA at conference; Company’s Fusion Middleware positioned as platform for services.
October 24, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill SAN FRANCISCO -- Just as rival BEA Systems did a few weeks ago at its own event in the same city, Oracle is pitching wares for SOA at its industry conference this week. The company is positioning SOA as a major theme...

Oracle touts Fusion, other apps lines; Company will keep upgrading existing platforms.
October 25, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill San Francisco -- Oracle will deliver its first Fusion applications in 2007 and plans to make its Fusion applications suite available in 2008, according to Oracle's John Wookey, senior vice president of Applications...

Sun CEO sets open source Java time frame; Announcement set for 30 to 60 days.
October 25, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill SAN FRANCISCO -- 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...

Visual Studio users get agile programming link; Fall release of VersionOne platform is set.
October 26, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill VersionOne's Fall 2006 release of its agile software development platform features a plug-in for users of the Microsoft Visual Studio environment. V1: Agile Enterprise provides application lifecycle management for...

Public key cryptography celebrates anniversary; Computer security dignitaries hail the security technology's birth, tied to November 1976 paper.
October 27, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Dignitaries from the computer security field took the stage at the Computer History Museum Thursday evening to note the 30th anniversary of public key cryptography and wax historical about...

PHP road map revealed; Security, internationalization improvements planned.
October 31, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill San Jose, Calif. - PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) 5.2, the latest version of the popular open source scripting language, is set to be released this Thursday, Zend Technologies Co-Founder Andi Gutmans said on Tuesday....

PHP event: Open source accommodation emphasized; Sun's Bray: Market preferences are clear.
October 31, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Rather than fighting the open source wave, commercial IT vendors do what they must: try to ride that wave. Panelists representing companies such as Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, IBM, and Oracle...

Microsoft, Zend boost PHP for Windows; Server deployments enabled by interface, other efforts.
October 31, 2006... Byline: Paul Krill In what may prove a watershed event, Microsoft and Zend Technologies on Tuesday will reveal a collaboration to bolster PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) deployments on the Windows Server platform. Officials at the...