Office Live: Microsoft’s gateway drug?
Filed under: Search
The news that Microsoft is offering financial incentives to enterprise customers that adopt its new Live Search engine seems to be about data.
As part of the arrangement, companies using Live Search agree to send search data (presumably anonymized) to Microsoft, which should help Ballmer’s boys figure out how to optimize the platform — and maybe even
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Integration via SaaS planned
Filed under: Platforms
Everybody agrees that data integration is a difficult task. But could it ever be accomplished via SaaS (Software as a Service), with integration services being provided online?
Pervasive Software believes it can. The company in the next 12 months plans to offer integration via a SaaS model, said Mike Hoskins, chief technology officer at Pervasive.
Cisco buying WebEx for $3.2 billion
Filed under: None
Cisco Systems Inc. continued its push into the unified communications and collaboration space Thursday, agreeing to buy WebEx, an on-demand collaboration apps vendor, for $3.2 billion.
In a statement, Cisco said it will pay $57 a share for WebEx and hopes to use the WebEx technologyt and services portfolio to complement its own unified communications
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Microsoft halts FoxPro
Filed under: Application Development
Microsoft will not be releasing a successor to its Visual FoxPro 9 developer tool, the company said this week.
The company will continue to support Visual FoxPro 9 through 2015 and will release Service Pack 2 for the product this summer, featuring enhancements in reporting and bug fixes. But there will be no version 10, Microsoft said on its MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) site.
Security deemed a tough task
Filed under: Security
Good software security is not something that happens by accident, a security expert told the audience at the EclipseCon 2007 conference on Thursday morning.
In a presentation entitled, “Software Security: Uncut and Uncensored,” Herbert Thompson, chief security strategist at People Security and an author on the subject, drove home the reality that software security
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Lefkowitz cites open source oddities
Filed under: Application Development
Open source software strategist Robert Lefkowitz, who spent more than 30 years as a software architect and systems designer in places such as Wall Street, brought his observations to the EclipseCon 2007 conference on Wednesday.
Lefkowitz, also known as r0ml, pondered situations of open source, such as noting that free software will put
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Opsware plus iConclude: Automate the automation
Filed under: IT Process Automation
In a phone call yesterday afternoon, Opsware CTO Tim Howes offered three reasonable reasons for Opsware’s acquisition of IT process automation vendor iConclude, which the company announced earlier that morning.
First, customers often want to draw additional value out of Opsware’s provisioning and configuration management solutions
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W3C plans HTML upgrade
Filed under: Application Development
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is seeking browser vendors, application developers and content designers to help design the next version of HTML.
The organization is announcing on Wednesday a new W3C HTML Working Group, which will solicit participation from W3C members and others.
“HTML started simply, with structured markup, no licensing
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Eclipse upgrade eyed
Filed under: Application Development
It may be quite a while before there is a major upgrade to the base Eclipse platform. But developers of Eclipse technology and others attending the EclipseCon conference this week already have some good ideas on what they would like to see.
Participants in a Tuesday evening session about the future of Eclipse detailed a laundry list of proposed improvements
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Microsoft offers Vista fixes for Visual Studio
Filed under: Application Development
Microsoft posted on Tuesday Visual Studio fixes geared to Windows Vista and an interview with a key executive touting Vista as a platform for application development.
The interview features S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division. Release of the interview coincides with the availability
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