It?s seems almost quaint to think that once upon a time, you really had to be a rocket scientist to develop software. OK, correct that, computer scientist. Your IDE was a cryptic command line text editor, and you freelanced debugging manually. That?s OK, that was during the cowboy days of appdev, when ideas like objects, [...]
What took HP so long? Store that thought.
As we?ve stated previously, security is one of those things that have become everybody?s business. Traditionally the role of security professionals who have focused more on perimeter security, the exposure of enterprise apps, processes, and services to the Internet opens huge back doors that developers unwittingly leave open [...]
To paraphrase Firesign Theatre, how can you in two places at once when you?re not anywhere at all? We would have preferred being in at least two places if not more today, what with Microsoft TechEd in New Orleans, IBM Rational?s Innovate conference in Orlando, and for spare change, PTC?s media and analyst day just [...]
We should have seen this one coming. IBM?s offer to buy Sterling Commerce for $1.4 billion from AT&T closes a major gap in the WebSphere portfolio, extending IBM?s array of internal integrations externally to B2B. It?s a logical extension, and IBM is hardly the first to travel this path: Software AG?s webMethods began life as [...]
We?re trying to stifle the puns with SpringSource?s announcement that now it?s also become the preferred Java development platform for the Google Apps Engine. Like SpringSource on a roll? OK that?s out of our system.
But coming atop the recent announcements of VMforce, along with key acquisitions of Gemstone, and to a lesser extent, RabbitMQ, we?d [...]
