Jim Wagner

Capitalizing on the promise of new standards in portlet development, four companies that are part of a specifications process are hosting a new forum at popular open-source Web site SourceForge. The site section aims to bring fresh hope to application developers who have struggled for years to customize their software in order to fit within […]

Adaptive data integration has arrived at software maker Informatica has with the release of PowerCenter 7, its flagship data integration suite for the enterprise. Mixing in its extended partnership with IBM’s On Demand service, as well as its September purchase of mainframe data integrator Striva, Informatica has created what it calls the next generation of […]

There’s a movement afoot in the developer community, albeit a small one, to bring a new level of flexibility to today’s complex programs. It’s called aspect-oriented programming (AOP), a less-than-radical idea that promises radical results for systems that use similar objects to interact with multiple classes — called cross-cutting concerns. Examples of these concerns would […]

In the latest in a long string of maneuvers, a group of shareholders filed a motion to prevent PeopleSoft from refunding customers in the event Oracle is successful in its hostile takeover plans. Filed Thursday afternoon at the Court of Chancery, State of Delaware, the motion seeks to prevent PeopleSoft executives from putting a “poison […]

Honoring its commitment to incorporate disparate security standards in its Web services software, IBM officials have announced support for SAML and Kerberos , as well as an extended edition of its mainframe-security service, WebSphere MQ. The two security standards will be supported in Tivoli Access Manager v5.1, due out by the end of the year. […]

After two years leading a project to deliver a better performance API for XML developers, BEA Systems, Inc. , is letting developers download the standardized product. Streaming API for Java (StAX), the answer to many prayers among the development community, received the blessing of the 16-member executive committee in the Java Community Process Tuesday. Implementation […]

The ISP Online Policy Group (IOPG) will have to wait a little bit longer to find out whether a judge will approve its restraining order against Diebold Inc., which has been sending the non-profit company cease-and-desist orders over publication of vulnerabilities in Diebold e-voting machines. The e-voting machine flaws, which allow hackers to change vote […]

Next week, former ASP aggregator Jamcracker is unveiling its identity management software solution for businesses after more than a year out of the public eye. Its developers have been busy porting its hosted solutions from more than a score of best-of-breed hosted applications onto one integrated suite. Staying under the radar has been quite a […]

The ISP Online Policy Group (IOPG) will find out later today whether a San Francisco judge will approve its restraining order against Diebold Inc., which has been sending the non-profit company cease-and-desist orders over publication of vulnerabilities in Diebold e-voting machines. The e-voting machine flaws, which allow hackers to change vote tallies through Microsoft Access, […]

With eyes fixed on the burgeoning Linux enterprise market, networking software specialist Novell on Tuesday announced plans to shell out $210 million in cash to acquire Germany’s SUSE Linux AG. The SUSE acquisition is Novell’s second major deal in the enterprise Linux space, coming just a few months after the purchase of Ximian, a Boston, […]

Figuring its infrastructure model for business optimization would work just as well in the cubicle, IBM retooled and launched Tuesday its newest utility computing offering — Workplace on demand. For months, The Armonk, N.Y., company has been conducting a marketing blitz on its new back-office services/software/hardware solution; code-named Project Symphony, it is nearing completion as […]

It’s not enough for companies to say they are meeting the compliance measures imposed as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA), they have to prove it. SAP officials announced Monday new tools that further standardize and provide internal checks within the corporation. Available early next year, the software integrates with the current version of mySAP […]