Jim Wagner

Software development vendor Borland has fully integrated its modeling software suite on top of Eclipse with Together and will release a version of the software in late August, officials announced Monday. The announcement of Together 2006 for Eclipse, made at the start of the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week, marks the first time […]

Sun Microsystems is quietly releasing the source code to the upcoming Java System Application Server, Platform Edition 9, under the GlassFish project, named after a semi-transparent aquarium fish. The company is expected to release the source code for its Java-based application server under a new open source license as it kicks off its JavaOne conference […]

John Newton, co-founder of enterprise content management (ECM) developer Documentum, and John Powell, former Business Objects COO, are using their expertise — and industry clout — to build an open source content management system (CMS) called Alfresco. A technology review of the source code and binaries, which will be available for download at the project’s […]

Gregory Maffei is taking his finance experience with Microsoft and heading over to Oracle . The enterprise database company said Maffei will take over as CFO as of July. He will also oversee Oracle’s legal department, human resources, manufacturing and distribution and global real estate. The former CFO for Microsoft from July 1997 to January […]

While Sun executives prepare for the 10th anniversary of Java at its annual JavaOne conference in San Francisco next week, much of its activity will be focused on what’s coming next for the programming language and platform. Java’s come a long way since its May 1995 inception. Originally intended as the programming language for a […]

Officials at software developer CodeWeavers Wednesday said developers using its product will be able to create Mac versions of Windows applications using its software. The St. Paul, Minn.-based company is best known for its CrossOver tool, which allows developers to port, or migrate, to Linux applications developed in Windows. The company also develops CrossOver Office, […]

Enterprise software giant SAP data, letting executives view the latest information on inventory, order status or production yields from any browser. Xacute uses the information aggregated by the Illuminator to craft key performance indicator (KPI) calculations, alerts or integrate with enterprise applications. Officials expect the Lighthammer acquisition to close next month. They also say Lighthammer will […]

Jack St. Clair Kilby, the man who helped invent the integrated circuit in the 1950s, died Monday following a brief battle with cancer. He was 81. His invention helped spur the technology that is used within everything from handheld Blackberrys to Cray supercomputers to automobiles and video equipment. “In my opinion, there are only a […]

Hosted customer relationship management (CRM) firm Salesforce.com launched its Summer ’05 software update, which includes what officials bill the world’s first on-demand operating system. Although officials at the San Francisco company call Multiforce 1.0 an operating system, the term is somewhat of a misnomer. While the new software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering does include the single data […]

JBoss started its JavaOne Conference party a week early with the second iteration of its portal application. Launched ahead of the conference next week, the JBoss Portal 2.0 is in many ways a full-fledged portal offering. It features a unified user interface for different applications and content, using Java industry standards. The previous version was […]

It seems that since Apple decided to move its processors away from IBM’s PowerPC and onto Intel , other companies might be looking for a way to get in themselves. Michael Dell, Dell founder and chairman, told Fortune magazine Thursday he wouldn’t mind adding Apple’s OS to its software product list, which includes a couple […]

Officials at top-ranked Internet service provider AOL said that numbers suggesting it is the most infected network on the Internet “silly.” Earlier this week security vendor Prolexic Technologies reported distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks will most likely come from customers of the U.S.-based service provider than any other in the industry. In most cases, […]