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TIBCO boosts SOA-RIA market with donation of Ajax messaging bus to OpenAjax Alliance

TIBCO Software is easing the way for Ajax component interoperability with the donation this week of its core Ajax message bus technology to the OpenAjax Alliance OAA Hub project. TIBCO announced the donation today, at the same time as it released its PageBus, a related open source product. What's in...

Tags: Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Open Source, Internet, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, Agile Development

Blog posts 2007-07-30

Red Hat takes SOA modeling tool concept to open source development

In an attempt to add grease to the skids of SOA adoption, Red Hat has agreed to take a patented concept for a services modeling approach and usher it through an open source community development process before eventually adding it to the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.Red Hat announced today that...

Tags: SOA architect, SOA, JBoss, Software Development, SOA Governance, Developer Tools, Software Infrastructure, Agile Development, Red Hat, Open Source

Blog posts 2007-07-24

Optaros opens OS projects catalog, JBoss Rules 4.0 debuts

With more than 140,000 open-source projects floating around, finding the right one for your company is a daunting task. For IT managers, who usually don't have the vantage point that developers enjoy, the search can also be fraught with danger. Choosing or backing the wrong project can have far-reaching operational,...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, search, Open Source, JBoss, Java, Intellectual Property, Enterprise Java, Developer Tools

Blog posts 2007-07-21

IT enters its most fertile development era ever

Information technology is now entering an unprecedented era of rapidly expanding development productivity. This is because of two unassailable facts: The number and types of people who can actively participate in software development are expanding, while -- at the same time -- we're seeing a rapid compression in the effort,...

Tags: Web Technology, Web Services, Virtualization, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SaaS, Open Source, Microsoft Live, Microsoft, Internet, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Eclipse, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development, .NET

Blog posts 2007-07-15

Red Hat delivers middleware stepping stone to larger platform distribution in fall

Red Hat has cemented another large stone into the foundation of its Enterprise Application Platform EAP 5.0, expected later this year, with the announcement of middleware solution EAP 4.2.EAP 4.2, the company's most comprehensive enterprise platform, weaves JBoss, Hibernate, and JBoss Seam into a single (integrated, tested, and certified) platform...

Tags: datacenters, Developer Tools, Eclipse, Enterprise Java, Java, JBoss, Linux, Open Source, Red Hat, SOA, SOA architect, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Web Services

Blog posts 2007-07-12

SOA demands a new 80-20 rule for application development

Services oriented architectures SOAs are not only forcing a new way of looking at how to construct applications and composite services -- SOA is now changing the meaning of what custom applications are and how they will be acquired. And this change has significant ramifications for IT developers, architects and...

Tags: Web Services, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, SAP, SaaS, Oracle, Microsoft Live, Microsoft, IT Service Management, IT Management, IBM, Intellectual Property, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development

Blog posts 2007-07-08

Policy-based management may help bridge some pitfalls in SOA's evolution

I had a nice chat with Rich Seeley at TechTarget this week on SOA and management, and he produced this story. The major theme of the article is that SOA forces a new kind of management, one that's by necessity highly inclusive and crosses the borders of the emerging loosely...

Tags: Agile Development, Application Lifecycle Management, datacenters, Developer Tools, Enterprise 2.0, IBM, IT Management, IT Service Management, ITIL, management, SaaS, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Testing Tools, Web Services

Blog posts 2007-06-28

JBoss takes Exadel tools to Eclipse open source

JBoss.org and Red Hat this week took a significant step toward finalizing Red Hat Developer Studio with the introduction of the Exadel Eclipse plug-ins under open source.Tony Baer has a good write-up on this.Exadel contributed the plug-ins, along with Ajax4sf and RichFaces, to Red Hat last March with the goal...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, Open Source, JBoss, IDEs, Enterprise Java, Eclipse, Developer Tools, Agile Development

Blog posts 2007-06-27

Funny Adobe moment at IBM Rational conference

Comedian Mitch Fatel did a great job spicing up the keynote of the IBM Rational developer conference in Orlando today, but there was an interestingly telling moment I'd like to share.So last night there was this big party at the Disney World hotel that the conference is at, and Fatel...

Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, Open Source, Microsoft, IBM, Enterprise 2.0, Embedded, Eclipse, Developer Tools, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-06-11

Telelogic acquisition takes IBM closer to the applications business

I just saw that IBM is buying Swedish development vendor Telelogic for $745 million, greasing the skids for the race of big software vendors to go even deeper on verticals and specialization.Just as IBM sidestepped the issue at their Innovate conference last month of whether they are getting into the...

Tags: Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, IBM, Software Development, Embedded, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development

Blog posts 2007-06-11

Mainsoft gives latest .NET developers a means to deploy widely without knowing Java

Mainsoft Corp. has sweetened the interoperability pot for .NET developers who want to run applications on Linux, Unix and Java EE platforms. The company today announced Version 2.0 of its Mainsoft for Java EE, which allows developers to code in the latest Visual Studio and run the applications on Java...

Tags: .NET, Adobe, Agile Development, Application Lifecycle Management, Developer Tools, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Java, IBM, Java, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, SOA, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Windows

Blog posts 2007-06-06

Open source revenues expected to soar -- but what of the savings?

Researcher IDC has published market-sizing figures calculating that revenue from open source-focused businesses totaled $1.8 billion in 2006. More impactful is the expected growth pattern, according to CBR:IDC has also predicted that the market will grow by a compound annual growth rate of 26% from 2006 to reach $5.8bn in...

Tags: Windows, Wall Street, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SaaS, Red Hat, Open Source, Microsoft Live, Microsoft, Linux, JBoss, IT Management, Intellectual Property, IBM, GPL, Google, Eclipse, Developer Tools, datacenters, Apache, .NET

Blog posts 2007-06-01

Expect a June demo of Silverlight on Linux, sans browser

Production-ready it will not be, but Mono project busy beavers expect to provide a feasibility "alpha" demonstration in about two weeks of Microsoft's recently unveiled Silverlight on Linux, says  Miguel de Icaza, vice president of developer platforms at Novell and the leader of the Mono project.Silverlight is a proprietary runtime...

Tags: Windows, Web Technology, Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, SaaS, Open Source, Microsoft, Linux, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, Adobe, .NET

Blog posts 2007-06-01

New OSGi spec eases Java use in runtime

The OSGi Alliance has released the latest specification for Java SE/EE, promising enterprise users the same agility and management capability that mobile apps have had since last fall.OSGi Service Platform Release 4 Core Specification Version 4.1, the result of JSR 291, provides a framework for packaging Java applications as independent...

Tags: Developer Tools, Eclipse, Enterprise Java, IBM, Java, Mobile, Open Source, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Web Services

Blog posts 2007-05-31

Take a sneak peek at IBM Rational's Jazz collaborative ALM framework and community

Read a full transcript of the discussion.IBM helped the Eclipse Foundation score a huge hit with the Eclipse development framework and community. Now the software engineering target is even higher, but the methods and approaches are similar.IBM will in June will unveil details about its Jazz framework and community for...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Podcasts, management, IT Service Management, IDEs, IBM, Enterprise Java, Eclipse, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development

Blog posts 2007-05-20

Evidence builds around the serious synergy between open source and SOA

Fellow ZDNet blogger Joe McKendrick beat me to the punch on the interesting findings from a recent Unisys-sponsored survey by Forrester Research on open source use in enterprises. The bits on SOA were particularly revealing, and add more gist to the mill of evidence building around the compelling economics that...

Tags: Enterprise Java, Enterprise 2.0, Eclipse, Developer Tools, datacenters, HP, IBM, IONA, IT Management, Java, JBoss, management, Open Source, Podcasts, Red Hat, SaaS, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Sun plans developer-focused, on-demand application grid services

Before the end of the year, Sun Microsystems will follow the lead of Amazon and Microsoft in providing a "pay as you drink" applications hosting service that provides a lifecycle approach to new web application development and deployment.In addition to announcing JavaFX Script, a lightweight programming language for creating rich...

Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Testing Tools, Sun Microsystems, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SaaS, Open Source, Mobile, Microsoft Live, Java, Internet, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, datacenters, convergence, content delivery network, Application Lifecycle Management

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Case study touts .NET development for IBM portal server deployment

Call it a suck-up job for developer choice, but Ive been appraised of an interesting case study that highlights the ability to develop using Visual Studio/.NET -- but to then cross-compile the applications to play as portlets for deployment on IBM WebSphere Portal server on ... a System Z mainframe....

Tags: Windows, Vista, Virtualization, System Z, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Red Hat, Open Source, Microsoft, Linux, JBoss, Java, ITIL, IT Service Management, IT Management, IDEs, IBM, Hardware Infrastructure, Enterprise Java, Developer Tools, datacenters, database, convergence, Application Lifecycle Management, Apache, .NET

Blog posts 2007-05-02

ALM 2.0 era ushers application development into a managed business process

Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Borland Software.Many people have defined software development as more art than science -- sometimes even a dark art. Thats why the business side of an enterprise is often perplexed by the Application Lifecycle Management ALM process. They see what goes in as...

Tags: Web Services, Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA, Podcasts, Open Source, management, Java, IT Management, Enterprise Java, Eclipse, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development, .NET

Blog posts 2007-05-01

At Mix07, is Microsoft's bottom-trolling for developers with weak knees?

From the early reports coming out of the Mix07 conference, Microsoft is making revamped offers to Web 2.0 developers that they are not supposed to be able to refuse. It worked in the client/server world, where getting your applications into a mainstream channel made the Microsoft ecosystem hard to resist....

Tags: Windows, Web Technology, Web Services, Vista, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, search, SaaS, Open Source, Microsoft Live, Microsoft, Internet, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, Amazon, Adobe, .NET

Blog posts 2007-04-30