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AJAX and Java Use Growing Among Programmers
August 7, 2006 Dan Burger
… Read moreIf you’ve ever driven west across the Great Plains and caught your first glimpse of the Rocky Mountains, they don’t look that impressive from 75 miles away. But as time goes on and you get closer to them, they slowly begin to overpower the landscape. According to Evans Data, which recently released its latest Web Services Development Survey, Web services with Web 2.0 interfaces are on the rise much like the approaching Rockies.
Of particular note in this survey is the increased use of AJAX, the development technology that combines Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and that is a
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Red Hat Buys JBoss–Your Move, Novell
April 17, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThere have been rumors since early this year that open source and commercial Java middleware distributor JBoss was in play, and that software giant Oracle was pursuing the company as well as Zend Technologies, which distributes a popular open source alternative to Java called PHP. JBoss was definitely in play, but the company has agreed to be acquired by commercial Linux distributor Red Hat for $350 million rather than Oracle, which oddly enough puts Novell in a funny position.
Under the acquisition deal, Red Hat is giving JBoss, which is a privately held company that is headquartered in Atlanta,
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Red Hat Buys JBoss–Your Move, Novell
April 17, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThere have been rumors since early this year that open source and commercial Java middleware distributor JBoss was in play, and that software giant Oracle was pursuing the company as well as Zend Technologies, which distributes a popular open source alternative to Java called PHP. JBoss was definitely in play, but the company has agreed to be acquired by commercial Linux distributor Red Hat for $350 million rather than Oracle, which oddly enough puts Novell in a funny position.
Under the acquisition deal, Red Hat is giving JBoss, which is a privately held company that is headquartered in Atlanta,
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Red Hat Buys JBoss–Your Move, Novell
April 17, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThere have been rumors since early this year that open source and commercial Java middleware distributor JBoss was in play, and that software giant Oracle was pursuing the company as well as Zend Technologies, which distributes a popular open source alternative to Java called PHP. JBoss was definitely in play, but the company has agreed to be acquired by commercial Linux distributor Red Hat for $350 million rather than Oracle, which oddly enough puts Novell in a funny position.
Under the acquisition deal, Red Hat is giving JBoss, which is a privately held company that is headquartered in Atlanta,
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Analysts, Users, and ISVs React to the System i5
February 20, 2006 Mary Lou Roberts
… Read moreIBM‘s System i5 announcements on January 31 have neither shattered expectations nor set the IT industry in a tailspin. The specifics of the announcement are not cause for either alarm or for great celebration. They do, however, represent steady progress in what platform believers have come to expect in a continuing evolution as IBM attempts to hold onto its large installed base and capture new customers at the same time.
But, as always, reactions to Big Blue’s announcements are varied. To gauge the reaction of the OS/400 community, I contacted several analysts, end users, and ISVs to get their
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Analysts, Users, and ISVs React to the System i5
February 20, 2006 Mary Lou Roberts
… Read moreIBM‘s System i5 announcements on January 31 have neither shattered expectations nor set the IT industry in a tailspin. The specifics of the announcement are not cause for either alarm or for great celebration. They do, however, represent steady progress in what platform believers have come to expect in a continuing evolution as IBM attempts to hold onto its large installed base and capture new customers at the same time.
But, as always, reactions to Big Blue’s announcements are varied. To gauge the reaction of the OS/400 community, I contacted several analysts, end users, and ISVs to get their
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Analysts, Users, and ISVs React to the System i5
February 20, 2006 Mary Lou Roberts
… Read moreIBM‘s System i5 announcements on January 31 have neither shattered expectations nor set the IT industry in a tailspin. The specifics of the announcement are not cause for either alarm or for great celebration. They do, however, represent steady progress in what platform believers have come to expect in a continuing evolution as IBM attempts to hold onto its large installed base and capture new customers at the same time.
But, as always, reactions to Big Blue’s announcements are varied. To gauge the reaction of the OS/400 community, I contacted several analysts, end users, and ISVs to get their
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Seagull Partners with Cordys for Web Service Orchestration
April 26, 2005 Alex Woodie
… Read moreLike other providers of legacy integration middleware, Seagull Software sees the impact that Web services and service oriented architectures (SOA) are having on how users interact with their host systems. Last week Seagull announced a new partnership with Jan Baan’s software startup, Cordys, that will provide Seagull customers with new opportunities for hooking Web services together and managing their interaction.
Cordys is a young software company focused on providing tools to help users connect their applications using new Web services technologies. The company was founded in 2004 by Baan founder and former CEO, Jan Baan, and other former executives
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LANSA Unveils 2005 Version of IDE
March 15, 2005 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIt’s always interesting to see what the wizards at LANSA cook up with new versions of their fourth generation language (4GL) integrated development environment (IDE), because it provides a glimpse into what kinds of programming techniques are hot, and where the pain points lie with current development architectures. LANSA 2005, which the vendor officially unveiled at the COMMON conference in its hometown of Chicago this week, does not disappoint in this respect.
LANSA has always billed its IDE as an insurance policy against technology change, and in fact, this is largely a feature of all 4GLs. Since business logic written
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Mirifex Delivers a BlackBerry Interface for Legacy Apps
February 22, 2005 Alex Woodie
… Read moreMirifex, an Ohio technology consulting firm, is ramping up development of its Mobile Business Access (MBA) solution, which gives users access to enterprise data and applications from BlackBerries, PocketPCs, and other handheld devices. The forms-based application, which relies on a mix of Java and XML, has already enabled several OS/400 shops to replace manual processes and become more lean in their operations.
Mirifex started writing MBA several years ago when one of its customers, a “fractional” airline called Flight Options that offers 2,000 high-profile customers partial ownership in its fleet of 200 aircraft, asked Mirifex to help eliminate some
