Jim Wagner

BEA Systems , in a bid to entice more ISVs to adopt its middleware software suite, has released “SOA in a box,” a kind of kit for building service oriented architectures . The intent is to get ISVs to wrap their specific applications around SOA, a software architecture that standardizes the way enterprise users access […]

Sun Microsystems released the first beta version of its new IDE , NetBeans 4.0, for developers Friday. The download gives programmers a first-look chance to try out the new features that will be included in the official release of the IDE, scheduled for sometime in December. The IDE is available on the Windows, Linux, Solaris […]

UPDATE: Richard Cunningham is like many twenty somethings in the United States — he enjoys hanging out at the bars with friends, motorcycling, hiking and buying the latest electronic gadgets. He regularly puts in 12-hour days from his home office and is respected by peers in his industry. But his industry is about as unconventional […]

IBM officials announced the company is bundling the Eclipse software development kit with its own version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). The donation of the JRE for Linux — and Windows-based operating systems — available on Big Blue’s Developerworks Web site — isn’t just an exercise in giving more to the open source community. […]

UPDATED: Amazon.com makes its Chinese debut with the $75 million acquisition of Joyo.com, the country’s largest online retailer of books, music, videos and DVDs. The deal is expected to close in the next couple of months, subject to closing conditions in the United States and China. Of the $75 million purchase price, $72 million will […]

Officials at the Mozilla Foundation announced the second offshoot of its growing open source project… this time with the creation of a non-profit organization in the country of Japan. Mozilla Japan will work on localized versions of its product line: Firefox, Thunderbird and Mozilla 1.7 Internet suite. Made up of long-time Mozilla contributors of MozillaGumi […]

Lawyers for software vendor Compuware filed a motion with a U.S. District Court in Michigan, asking a federal judge to impose sanctions against IBM for producing source code two years too late. The latest motion in its ongoing lawsuit against IBM claims Big Blue released source code on Aug. 11 — two years after the […]

AOL developers have rolled out a new version of its venerable Netscape browser, version 7.2. Officials say the new Netscape has plenty of features: faster rendering speeds and startup, pop-up blocking, password manager, vCard support, a Flash 7 plug-in, and table editing support. However, the bulk of the Netscape overhaul comes from the Mozilla Foundation’s […]

CA has taken a renewed interest this week in network security with two additions to its eTrust portfolio. The company acquired spyware killer PestPatrol and launched a consulting practice to assist partners with Vulnerability Manager release 8 and it acquired spyware killer PestPatrol. The all-cash acquisition of PestPatrol gives the company another tool to aid […]

E-mail security outfit Postini upgraded its data centers Monday to enhance administrative spam-blocking capabilities to its service. The company uses its data centers to act as a buffer between enterprise e-mail servers and the rest of the world, filtering out junk e-mail and passing the rest onto its customer. Perimeter Manager 5.0, the latest version […]

Sybase officials took the wraps off a new version of its developer tool, PowerBuilder, which offers more support for the creation of .NET-based enterprise applications. PowerBuilder expands on its existing .NET framework support, part of the Dublin, Calif.-based firm’s four-step goal to completely integrate Microsoft’s development framework for building applications that tap into a company’s […]

Officials at Linspire, the company once called Lindows, dropped expectations on the value its stock will take in when it launches an initial public offering (IPO) on the NASDAQ stock exchange, the second time in as many days. The company, which develops a commercial OS based on the open source Linux kernel, has in recent […]