As companies like JetBlue Airways begin to rely on Web services, they face the challenge of building scaleable and reusable networks. It was announced today that JetBlue has selected SOA Software's Service Manager - widely deployed in Fortune 500 and large global organizations - to cre

IBM has completed the acquisition of PureEdge Solutions Inc., allowing it to bolser its electronic forms (e-forms) strategy. IBM will now integrate e-forms, based on XML, into its portfolio of collaboration technology, including IBM Workplace, WebSphere and Lotus offerings.

EMC Corporation today announced major improvements to its award-winning EMC CLARiiON family of networked storage systems and software. The new CLARiiON CX300-s, CX500-s, and CX700-s Fibre Channel and iSCSI models are based on UltraPoint hardware and software technology.

A new corporation, The Mozilla Corporation - a wholly owned subsidiary - has been formed by The Mozilla Foundation. Many of the Mozilla Foundation employees who have been working on development and marketing will now become employees of Mozilla Corporation. 'Both organizations will foc

'Compuware delivered a good first quarter, featuring year-over-year increases in software license fees, maintenance fees and total revenues,' said Compuware Chairman and CEO Peter Karmanos, Jr., as Compuware reported first quarter revenues of $297.3 million, compared to $287.1 million

This week the Maricopa County Library Districtannounced their latest service, a virtual library offering librarycustomers 24/7 access to an online collection of hundreds of downloadabledigital Audiobooks and eBooks. With the new service, customers can nowlogon, check out, and download

Code-generation tools are capable of significantly impacting productivity and are now an essential part of a developer's tool set. There are two categories of transformation tools: those whose output is used by software components, and those whose output is used by developers. With too

In Part 1 of this series we discussed some of the key problems of capturing and sharing information and in Part 2 we looked at the critical components of a solution: modularization, automation, and XML.

Altova - creator of XMLSpy, MapForce, and other leading software development and data integration tools - has introduced AltovaXML, an XML standards processor that includes the same XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, XQuery, and XML validation engines that drive its own award-winning XML development

Stylus Studio (http://www .stylusstudio.com), the leading provider of XML tools for advanced data integration, has announced that for the first time in history, its employee discount on the Stylus Studio 6 XML Enterprise Edition is being extended to XML developers everywhere through Jul

Stylus Studio today issued a call to the global community of XML developers, to end the oppressive tyranny of pay-per-feature and celebrate their independence from incomplete and over-priced XML IDEs.

Stylus Studio today announced that for the first time in history, its employee discount on the Stylus Studio 6 XML Enterprise Edition is being extended to XML developers everywhere through July 31, 2005.

Two somewhat contrary-sounding drivers fuel the emerging renaissance in enterprise data management - virtualization and convergence. Virtualization is a framework for dividing up the resources of an organization into multiple execution environments through the application of one or mor

Moving information from a database into an application may be the most common challenge developers face. How many of us make it through life without meeting object/relational (O/R) mapping in some form? Certainly not too many. Lately it has become equally difficult to avoid XML/relatio

Due to the great increase of data in XML format, companies increasingly have to face the issue of how to manage this data efficiently. To do this it is important to take advantage of XML's potential, and to integrate with applications that access data stored in relational database mana

Integrating mainframe applications into an SOA often carries the burden of dealing with metadata in the form of Cobol Copybooks. This metadata converted to an XML Schema format can be useful for a range of applications (from validation to creation of services). This article explains ho

Agitar says that its solutions are demonstrating the value of automating developer testing as the best way to improve software quality, reduce time to market, and cut software development costs.

Boston Communications Group, Inc. , previously announced that the non-jury trial to consider the Company's unenforcability defense in the patent infringement lawsuit brought by Freedom Wireless, Inc. against the Company commenced in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts on June 7, 2

It was in May that a Microsoft program manager on the Internet Explorer development team warned the world that installing Netscape 8.0 could cause IE to render XML files as blank pages on some systems. Now the Netscape 8.0.2 release fixes that XML flaw.

Altova's Unified Modeling Language development tool 'makes visual software design practical for programmers and project managers everywhere,' the company reports. UModel also provides advanced code generation, reverse engineering, and round-tripping functionality with initial support f

A new software language - a process specification language known as ISO 18629 - should make computers much more useful in manufacturing.

'The next time I lose my car keys, maybe I can just go onto Google and search for them,' speculated futurist Paul Saffo recently. The director of the Institute for the Future was referring to Google Earth, its 'virtual globe' project.

The Wall Street Journal reported it first, then Reuters picked up on the possibility: what if Google is about to eclipse PapPal by introducing its very own online paymnt service?

HiT Software today announced the release of Allora 4.1, the middleware reference for XML to database integration projects. Allora 4.1 is now certified to work with over 20 different databases, from the most common ones such as Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase and MySQL to

VANCOUVER, B.C., June 7, 2005: Bluestream Database Software Corporation (www.bluestream.com) a world leader in XML technology innovation is proud to announce a new release of its flagship product XstreamDB 3.2 native XML database.

Axis2 is taking shape and this M2 release 'is only a glimpse of what is to be expected in the future,' the Apache Foundation reports. Developers with an interest in this project are urged to conctact axis-dev@ws.apache.org.

Microsoft yesterday announced that it is adopting XML as the default file format for the next major version of its Microsoft Office software, currently codenamed 'Office 12.'

Founded in December 2002, software compliance management pioneer Black Duck Software now has a staff of 30 and offers a platform to the market in the form of an information service which it sells as a subscription and already has two dozen customers across the USA and overseas. Doug Le

Maguma will be releasing version 2.5.0 of Workbench on the first of June and with it will come many expanded abilities to produce scripts, not only enhanced features targeting PHP developers but this time Python developers will find things to be happy about.

Mae West said, 'When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.' But, sometimes, when choosing between two equally appealing options, the best policy is to take both. WS-ResourceFramework and WS-Transfer, two new specifications for accessing XML r

In part 1 of this series, we discussed some of the key problems of capturing and sharing information - problems like delivering information to multiple types of media, making updates faster and easier, and reducing the cost and time to translate and publish. Given those challenges, wha

It can be difficult for developers, architects, and managers to keep up with new software packages and releases. This can be especially true with fast moving technologies like Web services. This article provides an overview of the main technologies that comprise the Java Web Services D

Last week I had lunch with the application manager of a local customer that just completed their enterprise rollout of Office 2003. We had decided to meet and discuss possible ways his team could begin to utilize this deployment. As we sat down he explained that he had been talking to

GlobusData has developed qxLanguage, which the company says is easier to use 'than any existing tool on the market.' It is designed for use by programmers and lay people alike, through the use of SQL-like constructs for self-describing codes. It is compatible with existing XML standar

A new report from Gartner has found that Linux has driven enough Oracle business to enable the company to pull even with IBM in the worldwide relational database market.

IPMonitor is designed to be a sophisticated network monitoring solution that allows network administrators, webmasters, and Internet service providers to monitor any networked device on the Internet, corporate intranet, or TCP/IP LAN and receive alerts immediately via audible alarm, me

Software professionals embrace XQuery, citing simplified XML data access and transformation.

Gordian Transformation Partnershas formed a strategic partnership with Fuego, a leading provider of agile business process management (BPM) solutions, to provide a comprehensive BPM solution to Gordian clients.

Lenovo Group, the heir to IBM's legendary PC business, is planning its own development center at Big Blue's digs in North Carolina, Lenovo executives said Tuesday. Lenovo, the China-based company that recently took over IBM's PC business, will use part of Blue's Innovation Center in

'XML doesn't always mean open. You can hide a lot in a file format,' says James Governor, principal analyst at Redmonk. 'OpenDocument represents an opportunity to ensure truly open file formats for productivity applications,' he said in reference to the announcement that OpenDocument h