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Oracle announced today that it has agreed to acquire AdminServer, a maker of policy administration software for the insurance industry. The acquisition will complement Oracle's existing insurance-related products.
5/13/2008 5:00PM EST
HP will pay US$13.9 billion for the services titan, which the company believes will more than double its service revenues and vault it to second place in the industry.
5/13/2008 3:23PM EST
RIM, the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, along with Royal Bank of Canada and Thomson Reuters, is launching a US$150 million fund to invest in startups creating mobile applications or services.
5/13/2008 1:37PM EST
Agitar Software, maker of the AgitarOne Java unit-testing suite, has sent a notice of assignment to its creditors as an alternative to bankruptcy.
5/12/2008 5:05PM EST
Microsoft has appealed to the European Court of First Instance in hopes of reducing or eliminating the US$1.3 billion fine that was levied against Microsoft in February.
5/12/2008 3:57PM EST
Spotfire Operations Analytics, an add-on to the company's business intelligence platform, leverages business intelligence reporting to help operational professionals define limits in process control rules.
5/12/2008 9:00AM EST
Chipmaker Intel announced yesterday that it had extended Threading Building Blocks to Solaris and Sun Studio, for writing applications designed to run on the new generation of multithreaded processors.
5/9/2008 5:00PM EST
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Big Blue's biggest weapon has long been its services arm. As the saying goes, when you buy enterprise "solutions" from IBM, the bulk of the sale is the van full of services folks with packed suitcases, ready to move into your office for good.
Nvidia has released a program that allows users to harness the power of their graphics card for use in processing.
This year, JavaOne is branching out to a broader vision, encompassing not only desktops and mobile phones, but also televisions and consumer electronics devices.
Adopting agile practices isn't as hard as it looks. There are several tools one can use to make the process simpler.
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The newest version of the handset OS should allow device manufacturers to expand their product lines. The goal is to increase UIQ's penetration into mass markets.
Company is latest to supply a native Internet telephony application for Microsoft's Windows Mobile; will offer free calling zones in 42 countries.
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As a tester of Java and/or .NET applications, do you know where those programs are spending time? If your apps deal with XML, HTML or another text-based protocol, they're likely bogged down with text-to-number conversions.
Hardly a day goes by when I don't see or hear of another company building a tool or application on Eclipse's Rich Client Platform (RCP). When they use RCP, they have many expectations, often based on how they see Eclipse installations such as Classic or RCP/Plug-in developers behaving.
By the time you finish reading this, you'll either be happily recalling your mid-April trip to California, or thinking about Boston in September. Or maybe-hopefully-you'll be doing both.
This week's links are for testers and QA professionals.
It's not an exercise in repetitive redundancy. It's a plan to use automation technologies to help automate your tests. And it's the brainchild of IDT testing consultant and author Elfriede Dustin.
Geniutec has been busy of late, posting milestone releases yesterday of MyEclipse 6.5 and 6.5 Blue Edition, the latest versions of its subscription-based IDEs.
Last week I wrote from STPCon in San Mateo, Calif., about a brief and telling encounter I had with industry guru Rob Sabourin, lover of Scrum and all things testing. I also promised to share one of his recent adventures in transitioning a test team to the practice.
A pair of projects were launched last week under the Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) project, one to build communications between debugging and monitoring devices, and the other aimed at creating C/C++ tools for devices with limited resources.
Rob Sabourin is smitten with Scrum. For proof, mention the development framework and watch his body language, as I just did.
There are lots of Eclipse-related blogs out there, but many seem to have fizzled. Here's a list of some of the most active.
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The service pack refreshes controls in WebUI Studio.NET 2008 R1, adding 64-bit support and a charting runtime engine. The release is freely downloadable to registered customers.
5/9/2008 4:00PM EST
A norovirus outbreak was reported yesterday that may have affected attendees at the JavaOne 2008 Conference in San Francisco, the city's department of public health reported. Cases were reported in and around the Moscone Center convention facility.
5/9/2008 2:50PM EST
Sun Microsystems is planning to add support for the PHP dynamic language to a future NetBeans IDE release in an effort to attract users of the larger Eclipse IDE community for software development.
5/8/2008 3:15PM EST
Coverity Thread Analyzer for Java is designed to predict deadlocks and race conditions in multithreaded applications. It can be integrated with Coverity's Prevent static analysis tool to achieve both dynamic and static analysis.
5/7/2008 5:00PM EST
Sun Microsystems said yesterday at JavaOne 2008 that an early release of its JavaFX platform for developing rich Internet applications for multiple platforms is due in July 2008, with a final release in the spring of 2009.
5/7/2008 4:00PM EST
For US$23 million, Embarcadero buys everything except the receivables. The deal is expected to close by end of June, bringing together application tools and database tools under Embarcadero's aegis.
5/7/2008 3:53PM EST
Kabira Technologies introduced yesterday a platform in development that mates its runtime technology with Java applications to better handle high-volume transaction processing. The product will run Java programs while using less Java code.
5/7/2008 2:13PM EST
Parasoft is making it easier for developers to spot and fix security vulnerabilities that aren't usually caught until after the application is built. Its Application Security Solutions product was released today.
5/6/2008 3:04PM EST
The OpenSolaris operating system is available for download, said Sun Microsystems, which developed the open-source OS with the OpenSolaris developer community. Sun also announced that developers can run their applications on OpenSolaris by way of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
5/6/2008 2:26PM EST
Microsoft has released its primary tooling for coding Silverlight 1 applications, and while Silverlight itself is cross-platform, the tools only work with Windows. Microsoft is attempting to build up the concept of the "devsigner."
5/5/2008 4:25PM EST
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When you think about it, increasingly pervasive trends like SOA & Web Services are examples of the ever-expanding growth of...
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In software testing and quality assurance, having more people looking at code means that problems can be found and fixed faster. This is an advantage that open-source advocates tout.
Even for companies not engaged in open-source development, aspects of community-related methodologies can help teams keep deadlines and increase the overall quality of projects.
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Weekend talks ended in a stalemate when the companies failed to reach agreement on a selling price for Yahoo. In a possible reaction by investors, Yahoo's stock plummeted when trading began this morning.
5/5/2008 1:12PM EST
JNBridge said its 4.0 release, to be introduced this week at JavaOne 2008, makes it easier for Java developers in Eclipse to add code from the Microsoft .NET Visual Studio IDE, and vice versa, without having to leave their native development environment.
5/5/2008 9:00AM EST
SAP customer relationship management software will run natively on BlackBerry mobile devices under a new partnership announced today by SAP and RIM.
5/2/2008 4:01PM EST
Pervasive Parallelism Lab gets US$6 million for three years to develop languages and tools in hopes of advancing the exploitation of multicore processors. AMD, HP, IBM, Intel, Nvidia and Sun are all on board.
5/1/2008 2:55PM EST
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