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 Today’s software development is geared more towards building upon previous work and less about reinventing content from scratch. Resourceful software development organizations and developers use a combination of previously created code, commercial software, open source software, and th...May. 4, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 974 |
 Modularity plays an important role in software architecture. It fills a gap that has existed since we began developing enterprise software systems in Java. This chapter discusses that gap and explores how modularity is an important intermediary technology that fills that gap.
There a...Apr. 26, 2012 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,932 |
 Eucalyptus Systems, the open source private and hybrid cloud merchant that just tied up with Amazon, has gotten a $30 million C round on top of the $25.5 million it’s already gotten. It says the C round was oversubscribed.
The funding was led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). ...Apr. 23, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,700 |
 Open-Xchange, the supplier of email and collaboration software for cloud providers, on Wednesday announced an agreement with UnoEuro - a leading Scandinavian provider of cost-effective hosting and email services.
In the coming months, UnoEuro will consolidate and replace its existing ...Apr. 18, 2012 10:28 AM EDT Reads: 467 |
 IBM has gotten as predictable in its acquisitions as it used to be in its suits.
It’s buying another analytics house. This time it’s Varicent Software from up Toronto way. And again IBM isn’t saying what it’s paying.
Nine-year-old Varicent does analytics software for compensation an...Apr. 17, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,722 |
 In case nobody noticed, IBM put its reputation on the line the other day.
It said it had distilled all the years of experience it got from tens of thousands of customer engagements around the world – and nobody can compete with that – into a box, an “expert integrated system” that it...Apr. 16, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,862 |
 If you are planning to do build a career as a software developer, you have to be prepared to get trained and re-trained every couple of years. But how? If you’re lucky, your employer will send you to classes, otherwise you have to spend substantial amount of time self-studying. Back in...Apr. 4, 2012 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,319 |
 HTC Monday licensed patents from Intertrust Technologies, which has developed a trove of fundamental DRM and so-called trusted distributed computing IP.
Then it went a step farther than other Intertrust licensees and bought 20% of Intertrust’s SyncTV subsidiary for an undisclosed sum...Apr. 2, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,616 |
 Open source cloud infrastructure automation specialist Opscode has gotten a $19.5 million C round from new backer Ignition Partners with follow-on investments from existing financiers Battery Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
The new money means the not-yet-four-year-old start-up...Mar. 27, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,459 |
 Amazon Web Services has been quietly reaching out to big business recently looking for business, sources have told us. And in that vein Thursday it agreed to work with open source private cloud peddler Eucalyptus Systems so companies can have an on-premise cloud that nicely migrates wo...Mar. 26, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,886 |
 EMC Tuesday confirmed a report that it had bought 22-year-old privately held web development house Pivotal Labs for its agile development methodology and its widely used Pivotal Tracker tool.
How much EMC spent buying the San Francisco-based software consulting operation wasn’t discl...Mar. 26, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,855 |
 Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, on Wednesday announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of its OnDemand Top 100 winners. Inclusion in the OnDemand 100 signifies a company's leadership amongst its peers, and game-cha...Mar. 21, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,408 |
 All in all I highly recommend this book to every Java programmer.
I really like the CERT books. This one is no different, however, it is not one to read from cover to cover, at least not for me. It contains a catalog of rules for programming secure java code. What I have been doing is...Dec. 9, 2011 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,858 |
 JRE 6 was released in 2006, five years after a major JRE version was released. For the past few years Java was looking stagnant, and many Java developers began to worry; this concern was amplified when Oracle purchased Sun.
We will try to discover if there's a big refactoring or maybe...Nov. 26, 2011 11:00 AM EST Reads: 4,840 |
 This book is great for the person who is new to Java and new to programming.
Let’s first set the context of my normal skillset. I am a .NET Software Architect and Developer. I have been 100% in the .NET world since 2001 (with a very little sprinkling of VB6). I recently decided to exp...Oct. 5, 2011 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,954 |
 This article will focus on Software Inventory Control Systems (SICS). Recently, I was asked by Bill Rogers (NH DoIT Commissioner) and Peter Hastings (NH DoIT Director) to take a look at SICS, investigate them and provide a recommendation. When I started this research I knew nothing abo...Sep. 9, 2011 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,765 |
 Google lost a bid Monday to suppress evidence that it willfully infringed on Oracle’s IP in building Android.
On July 21, during the Daubert hearing Google wanted, District Court Judge William Alsup, who’s presiding over the Oracle v Google Java case, read into the record an e-mail...Aug. 4, 2011 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,329 |
 Scott McNealy, often mistaken for one of Sun’s founders – technically he wasn’t but he was so identified with the company for so long people assume he was – has been hinting about a new start-up called WayIn on Twitter, according to GigaOm.
Actually Twitter’s the way WayIn will launc...Jun. 17, 2011 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,246 |
 The OSGi framework is a popular platform for developing multifunctional desktop systems, enterprise systems and complex applications.
OSGi uses a modular approach where each bundle is regarded as a relatively independent and separate unit. The framework controls maintenance-based tas...May. 19, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,045 |
 Red Hat took a flying leap Wednesday and landed with both feet on the cloud where it hopes to knock VMware, which it perceives as its biggest enemy, for a loop.
It announced that it’s going into both the Infrastructure-as-a-Service and the Platform-as-a-Service business, pushing past...May. 9, 2011 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,341 |
 Cloud Expo New York, June 6-9, 2011 early bird registration will expire on Friday. Register now for a Gold Pass for the 8th International Cloud Expo on June 6–9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City and save $500 on your full conference pass. Gold Pass Delegates will receive ful...Apr. 12, 2011 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 10,289 |
 More than a year ago, Sofia was abducted from her home in Lighthouse Point, Florida, by her Syrian National uncle, who is practicing medicine in the Chicago area. Last March, a Florida judge issued an order to pick Sofia up from the uncle's house in Chicago and return her to her home t...Apr. 11, 2011 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 8,543 |
 OSGi technology brings a number of much needed benefits to the Java enterprise application market, and is disruptive in that it impacts the software development, deployment, and management practices of many organizations. OSGi impacts deployment given the shared, modular nature of OSGi...Mar. 25, 2011 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 8,488 |
 See what excited the COBOL world this January. Watch the launch video and see Visual COBOL in action. The demo shows how to build COBOL applications within VS2010, and Eclipse IDEs integrating with .NET and other UI technologies… and much more, including COBOL applications running on a...Mar. 16, 2011 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,493 |
 COBOL has evolved and is breaking free. Visual COBOL R3 gives you FREEDOM, CHOICE and MORE: FREEDOM to deploy wherever you want, JVM, .NET, AZURE, CHOICE of development environment, VS2010 or Eclipse and MORE COBOL language enhancements to deliver MORE productivity, faster. Read the Vi...Mar. 16, 2011 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,188 |
 Micro Focus Visual COBOL delivers the richest development experience for COBOL programmers available on Windows and Linux. Using the Eclipse rich client platform as an integrated development environment (IDE), the needs of the COBOL programmer are the primary focus. In parallel, the en...Mar. 15, 2011 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,373 |
 Micro Focus COBOL for JVM introduces a unique, high-performance COBOL environment for developing COBOL applications to be deployed in a Java framework such as the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) or a Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) application server. In addition to using Visual COBOL for Ecl...Mar. 15, 2011 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,507 |
 SAP (Business Objects) has recently released Crystal Reports for Eclipse version 2.0 to provide reporting solutions for Java-based applications. This is available as free to use (within an organization) and has the advantage that it is built on the most tested and reliable component (J...Dec. 11, 2009 12:17 PM EST Reads: 14,407 Replies: 1 |
 Google is supposed to unveil a beta Chrome OS on a generic Atom-based netbook Tuesday and put the Google-branded thing into limited circulation in the run-up to a commercial product next year. Reportedly no more than 65,000 of this first-stab widget will be made as an appeal to develop...Dec. 7, 2010 08:00 AM EST Reads: 7,053 |
 Oracle’s new best friend Mellanox Technologies said Monday that it’s buying sometime rival Voltaire for $8.75 a share, which works out to $218 million cash, roughly a 36% premium.
Less what Voltaire’s got in the bank, it’s going for $176 million.
Oracle recently bought 10.2% of M...Nov. 30, 2010 06:15 AM EST Reads: 5,705 |
 It took Novell more than two days after the announcement that it's being bought for its chief marketing officer John Dragoon to say on the company's web site that Novell's Unix copyrights will stay with Novell.
God knows it wasn't answering the phone.
What Dragoon says still mean...Nov. 25, 2010 05:00 PM EST Reads: 6,022 |
 In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1-4, 2010) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem.Oct. 28, 2010 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 59,480 Replies: 5 |
 Three months after publicly starting down the road to imprint its NDA on the cloud by establishing a large-scale open source cloud platform called OpenStack free for anybody to use, Rackspace Hosting, its BFF NASA and a reportedly growing OpenStack community made their first official c...Oct. 22, 2010 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,496 |
 Dell not only lost 3Par, the object of its techno-lust, to HP, its madcap pursuit of 3Par also really ticked off EMC, its storage partner of long-standing.
The pair is now in what sounds a lot like marriage counseling trying to repair their relationship and establish a new basis of ...Oct. 22, 2010 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,339 |
 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added Read Replicas to its Relational Database Service (RDS) to make it easier to scale MySQL deployments to meet the performance demands of high-traffic web applications.
Read Replicas lets users create one or more copies of a MySQL Database Instance a...Oct. 7, 2010 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 11,608 |
 Add Java to the list of rebellious Sun properties bucking Oracle hegemony.
According to the Register, before Oracle OpenWorld the Java Community Process (JCP), the only entity that's supposed to be able to approve changes to Java, quietly passed a resolution demanding that Oracle sp...Oct. 7, 2010 09:16 AM EDT Reads: 9,134 |
 TIBCO has brought OpenSpirit Corporation, which sells data and application integration solutions to the oil and gas industry, on undisclosed terms. Its widgetry gathers data from multiple sources to help spot likely deposits. The privately held Texas concern has 200 clients in 57 count...Oct. 5, 2010 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,374 |
 Enterprises today are implementing agile development methodologies, to ensure that their software reaches the user as quickly as possible. Getting this application tested thoroughly is a very important. Frameworks and newer IDE's have made the task of the programmer easier and have tre...Sep. 29, 2010 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 7,846 |
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 Compuware Corporation on Monday announced the general availability of Compuware Workbench, an innovative new open environment for managing mainframe application development. Through an Eclipse-based graphical user interface (GUI) with a single-launch point for Compuware's mainframe pro...Sep. 13, 2010 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,241 |
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