This year it looks certain that a new participation record will be set, as more than 4,000 votes have already been recorded in just the first seven days of voting, as more than 50,000 SYS-CON Media readers are estimated to cast their votes in this year's Readers' Choice Awards. Highlig

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has quickly taken centre stage as the primary development style of the next decade and beyond. Businesses of all types are preparing for the SOA revolution that promises consistency of process, reduction in duplicate work, ease of maintenance, servic

The Eclipse team is well on the way to the 3.1 release. The current release is M4 with M5 to follow in less than two weeks (M5 is due Feb 18th). 'I made the plunge to 3.1M4,' reports JDJ's Eclipse editor, Bill Dudney. 'I've been using it for about 4 weeks now and here are my notes on t

Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) today announced the immediate availability of Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7, previously code-named 'Blackstone,' the fastest, easiest way to build and deploy powerful Internet applications. Developers are already embracing the latest version of the ColdFusion app

eBay, The World's Online Marketplace, has more than 114 million registered users, 10,000 developers, and over 700 live, third-party applications.

During its quarterly Network Computing '05 (NC05Q1) launch today, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) and Archipelago Holdings Inc. (PCX: AX), operator of the Archipelago Exchange (ArcaEx), the first totally open, all-electronic stock exchange in the United States, announced the comp

Coherence 3.0 Management Framework Monitors All Cache Settings and Statistics for Coherence caches and services at runtime utilizing the standard JMX interface. Coherence Management Framework makes it possible to view and manage Coherence operational parameters and cache statistics thr

Sean Rhody, editor-in-chief of Web Services Journal and Anne Thomas Manes, vice president and research director at Burton Group discussed Web Services trends on Rhody's 'Web Services Update' SYS-CON.TV (www.SYS-CON.TV) program. They also discussed today's UDDI version 3.0 announcement.

Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB). Sonic enterprise integration and messaging products deliver flexibility, scalability, and continuous availability through patent-pending innovations. Sonic Software enables over 700 customers to in

On February 16th at Web Services Edge 2005 in Boston, Mass., Mr. Farquharson will present the topic: 'B2B Policy Enforcement: The Third Rail of SOA Implementation.' In this presentation he will discuss XML Virtual Private Networks (XML VPNs) and their potential to mitigate security pol

Jim Bole, Infravio vice president of products and services, will present at the Web Services Edge International Web Services Conference & Expo in Boston, Massachusetts. Bole's presentation will examine 'Best Practices in Web Services Security, Service-Oriented Architecture Policy and G

SYS-CON Media, the world's leading i-technology media company, announced that its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards polls opened today, February 1, 2005, and will remain open for six months, until July 31, 2005. More than 50,000 readers are expected to cast their votes to select the best so

Speaking Live at SYS-CON.TV 'CodePro AnalytiX has advanced technology to the point where significant quality improvements can be achieved automatically during the coding phase of software development,' said Mike Taylor, CEO of Instantiations.

Tangosol Coherence is the leading distributed in-memory data management solution for enterprise Java applications. Within Coherence is a high performance session management implementation called Coherence*Web, which seamlessly adds high-scale and highly reliable clustering of HTTP Sess

Coverity, the start-up begun by ex-Stanford technies dedicated to stamping out source code bugs, is about to trade up from its old product Swat to an upgrade called Prevent and a new product called Extend that adds customization. Veritas is using both to pinpoint defects and security v

Sun Microsystems will be in Boston on February 14-17 at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005, and the Web Services Edge Conference 2005 East at the Hynes Convention Center. You'll have the opportunity to learn more about Sun's work in the Linux and open source communities and meet wi

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that SYS-CON.TV (www.sys-con.tv), the first streaming live i-technology television is scheduled to debut on February 15, 2005 to coincide with the first day of the upcoming Web Services Edg

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that the first branded blogging community, www.blog-n-play.com (TM), will go beta on February 15, 2005, to coincide with the opening day of the Web Services Edge 2005 East International Web

Sun Microsystems today announced the largest single release of patent innovations into the open source community by any organization to date, marking a significant shift in the way Sun positions its intellectual property portfolio. By giving open source developers free access to Sun Op

In a passing remark about how 'there may someday be a redistributable JVM RPM at jpackage,' a mailing list last week prompted new speculation that IBM's version of open-source Java might be on its way since 'someday' - apparently - 'may even be next week.'

A $170 million system commissioned by the FBI to securely distribute information among agents, is worthless, the agency said, and will not be used.

Up to 5,000 Oracle/PeopleSoft employees are about to be fired. 'What's not known,' write Roger Strukhoff and Matt Vande Voorde, reporting direct from Pleasanton, CA yesterday, 'is how many of those jobs will be plucked from the sprawling PeopleSoft campus, which dominates the Hacienda

Bill Gates has been trying to neutralize the shock waves he sent through the open source community when in a press interview he made an analogy between 'communists' and people who advocate a less restrictive IP environment, such Creative Commons licenses and things like that. 'No, no,

Roger Strukhoff, SYS-CON Media West Coast Bureau Chief, reports on a multi-pronged tsunami relief effort was outlined and discussed early this morning at the 11th Annual WCA International Symposium and Business Expo (www.wcai.com) in San Jose, California.

Distancing itself ever further from arch-rival Microsoft, whose CEO Bill Gates tried during his keynote at CES 2005 to liken open source software development to a kind of modern-day communism, IBM will today be giving away rights - so it is announcing - to 500 of its software patents.

The bounceback has begun. In case anyone doubts that the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2005 that ended yesterday in Las Vegas marks a turning-point in the geek technology market, here is a round-up of some of the week's highlights, featuring Microsoft, Samsung, Hitachi, and HP.

'Ease of Development' is one of the main focuses in J2SE 5. Accordingly, J2SE 5 introduces several new features designed to simplify the developer's life. If you use these new constructs, your code will become more compact and expressive, hence easier to understand and debug. This arti

Gigablast is the latest entrant in the elite world of Web search engines. The company is setting itself apart with highly customizable search features.

An August release date of Asianux 2.0, the second version of a Linux standard proposed for Asia, was changed to July. A massive educational database in South Korea is the reason.

Now in the hands of an ex-IBMer, CA has joined the IBM-spawned open spource Eclipse Foundation and is supposed to contribute code to the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Top-Level Project. CA has also been named the TPTP Monitoring Tools Project lead.

DataDirect is forecasting that 2005 will be a year in which a complete overhaul in the way software applications are built will occur.

Version 1.1 of IBM's RIB (Reflexive User Interface) builder includes Eclipse SWT GUI validation, along with the ability to create Java source for GUIs made by RIB.

Four Moscow-based security experts with Kaspersky Labs have reported that the number of new entries to its malware database jumped by more than 30 in 2004 - with the two record holders for damage caused being Mydoom.a (February) and Sasser.a (May).

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - whose watchword is 'We believe that the world's toughest problems can be solved - if we work together' - is giving $3M to help those struck by the natural disaster that's wreaked such havoc in South Asia. Amazon.com has helped channel even more, $3

'Stop saying that 'Java is not Open Source,' and realize that 'Sun's implementation is not open source.' Even better, stop saying that 'Our implementation is open source,' it is not you know that, and this is OK, we're not blaming you, we want to work with you.' As part of our end of y

The Eclipse Foundation announced that the TPTP release 3.2 would be available on the Eclipse Foundation website (www.eclipse.org) this week.

CA has joined the Eclipse Foundation and will contribute code to the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Top-Level Project. 'Joining the Eclipse Foundation underscores CA's commitment to embrace the open source paradigm,' said Yogesh Gupta, senior vice president and chie

Our search for the Twenty Top Software People in the World is nearing completion. In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving the final 'cut' to you, so here are the top 40 nominations in alphabetical order. Our aim this time round is to whittle this 40 down to twent

SYS-CON Media today announced further details of the upcoming cross-platform technology event, Web Services Edge 2005 East - International Web Services Conference & Expo (www.sys-con.com/edge), to be held in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center, February 15-17, 2005. More than 3,000 i

Eclipse, originally intended to be a platform for developers, has grown over the years, and is now shifting its focus on end-user application development. A new cross-platform offering has been created in the process, called IBM Workplace Client Technology, Rich Client Edition.