'Compliance and security are the new Software Quality drivers,' said Dr Adam Kolawa, cofounder and CEO of Parasoft Corporation, talking live on SYS-CON.TV to Sean Rhody, editor-in-chief of Web Services Journal and Yakov Fain, Enterprise Editor of JDJ.

The availability of CocoBase Enterprise O/R version 4.5 service release 7 includes additional advanced support for POJO Data Persistence, and tight integrations with the new versions of the Eclipse IDE, IBM WebSphere IDE and IBM's DB2 Database. It is designed to greatly simplify the us

IBM Global Services announced today new services that create an end-to-end roadmap to help customers become on demand businesses by using an SOA. These new 'asset-based' services, says IBM, will help customers with specific aspects of an SOA including planning, design, implementation a

New addition to Integrator portfolio to unlock the value of isolated content assets distributed across the enterprise.

There has been a lot of buzz and hype, some factual, some not so well-founded, surrounding the opportunities presented by Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) and their implementation as Web services. Analysts have predicted, pundits have professed, professors have lectured. And compan

The Western conception of time relentlessly flying forward is a key underpinning of many societies' continuous focus on improving things, becoming more efficient, getting ever better, and not wasting a minute in the process.

In a bid to promote an exchange of ideas between the two, the IC and WebSphere community have pledged to exchange more information with one another.

FairUCE (Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail), represents not simply a SPAM fighting product from IBM, but a new security technology.

This year will mark the tenth anniversary of the official launch of Java technology. It seems like only yesterday. No doubt there will be celebrations similar to the five-year anniversary, so I thought I would take this opportunity to step back in time and track Java's course.

IBM WebSphere is giving doctors a way to enter and access patient information using their voice, a keyboard or handwriting. This is leading to improved response times in critical care units.

I received a lot of feedback last month on my 'Will Every Child Be Left Behind?' editorial. A lot of you related your collective disappointment in the current state of our public schools. What surprised me was the number of readers who thought that application servers, XML, and Web ser

This year it looks certain that a new participation record will be set, as more than 4,000 votes have already been recorded in just the first seven days of voting, as more than 50,000 SYS-CON Media readers are estimated to cast their votes in this year's Readers' Choice Awards. Highlig

Carly Fiorina has stepped down as Chairman and CEO of Hewlett Packard. CEO since 1999, Fiorina is being replaced by Robert Wayman, HP's current CFO, while Patricia Dunn, was named non-executive chairman of the board, effective immediately.

The politicians are at it again with their general collective hallucinations. Recently Rod Paige, the U.S. Secretary of Education, made the following statement: There is a new fervor in American education and a new creativity that's being driven in part by this generation of tech-savvy

IBM is introducing WebSphere Everyplace Mobile Portal Enable V5.0, an integrated server-side infrastructure offering that enables the design and deployment of mobile solutions.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has quickly taken centre stage as the primary development style of the next decade and beyond. Businesses of all types are preparing for the SOA revolution that promises consistency of process, reduction in duplicate work, ease of maintenance, servic

Finland's general public offered classes in Java-WebSphere through partnership of Kenetiks and FCS.

Paul Simon sings, 'Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.' Each person who attempts to conquer the highly fickle music or fashion market frequently does so by merely rehashing old ideas. Trends are repeated and what was once passe becomes fashionable again, as the definition

The Department of the Interior announced ESRI was selected to develop the full implementation of the Geospatial One-Stop Operational Portal (GOS 2).

eBay, The World's Online Marketplace, has more than 114 million registered users, 10,000 developers, and over 700 live, third-party applications.

Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB). Sonic enterprise integration and messaging products deliver flexibility, scalability, and continuous availability through patent-pending innovations. Sonic Software enables over 700 customers to in

On February 16th at Web Services Edge 2005 in Boston, Mass., Mr. Farquharson will present the topic: 'B2B Policy Enforcement: The Third Rail of SOA Implementation.' In this presentation he will discuss XML Virtual Private Networks (XML VPNs) and their potential to mitigate security pol

SYS-CON Media, the world's leading i-technology media company, announced that its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards polls opened today, February 1, 2005, and will remain open for six months, until July 31, 2005. More than 50,000 readers are expected to cast their votes to select the best so

Speaking Live at SYS-CON.TV 'CodePro AnalytiX has advanced technology to the point where significant quality improvements can be achieved automatically during the coding phase of software development,' said Mike Taylor, CEO of Instantiations.

Global Knowledge, the largest privately held provider of training and enterprise learning services for information technology (IT) and management professionals, is partnering with WestLake, aleader in Web development training, to offer customers the industry's bestand most respected We

IBM has released more details about what the next edition of WebSphere will be like. Robert LeBlanc, general manager of IBM's application and integration middleware division, said it will add support for the latest Web services communications protocols and build on machine-to-machine m

MQSoftware will be hosting a new Web Seminar, 'Real-Time SWIFTNet Transaction Assurance,' on February 15, 2005 from 11:00-12:00 AM CST, the company has just announced.

A California outfit by the name of PatentCafe has set up a database of the 500 patents that IBM has pledged to open up to open source developers claiming its natural language-based search engine will accelerate developers' use of the patents.

Pantero debuts the Expression Builder for creating sophisticated data interpretation and validation services without having to write code.

Under its new CEO-elect, John Swainson, the import from IBM, Computer Associates is going to move from a brand unit to a business unit structure just like at IBM. According to Swainson, who circulated an e-mail internally last Friday tracing the bare outlines of the reorganization, 'Bu

SAP America, Inc., the U.S. and Canadian subsidiary of SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), this week announced the addition of several key executives to its leadership team overseeing strategic market segments, geographic territories, vertical industries and service units. The new executives join SAP

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that SYS-CON.TV (www.sys-con.tv), the first streaming live i-technology television is scheduled to debut on February 15, 2005 to coincide with the first day of the upcoming Web Services Edg

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that the first branded blogging community, www.blog-n-play.com (TM), will go beta on February 15, 2005, to coincide with the opening day of the Web Services Edge 2005 East International Web

Parasoft, a leading provider of Web services solutions, announced the release of Parasoft BPEL Maestro 1.5. Designed to help enterprises develop, manage and orchestrate long-term, persistent Web Service business processes. Parasoft BPEL Maestro 1.5 delivers a comprehensive BPEL engine

Itemfield, the leading provider of next-generation data transformation software for high-performance, mission-critical enterprise applications, announced the appointment of Dr. Jacob Ukelson as Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Dr. Ukelson will oversee Itemfield's technical produ

BRMS to make it practical for business and IT professionals to collaborate in managing business policies across the enterprise. With ILOG JRules(TM) 5.0, ILOG has taken the lead in providing a collaboration platform for all the stakeholders in the policy management process -- IT profes

In a passing remark about how 'there may someday be a redistributable JVM RPM at jpackage,' a mailing list last week prompted new speculation that IBM's version of open-source Java might be on its way since 'someday' - apparently - 'may even be next week.'

'We've repeatedly passed along customer interest in having IBM support Solaris 10 with WebSphere, DB2, Tivoli, Rational and MQSeries products,' wrote Jonathan Schwartz yesterday in an Open Letter to IBM's CEO Sam Palmisano. 'They'd like the choice to run IBM products on Solaris 10,' he

Is the Oracle/Peoplesoft battle stressing people out? Well, it's not helping, says a Bay Area stress management expert. 'People are having to live with the uncertainty of 'will I have a job tomorrow,' or on a larger scale, 'will the company be here tomorrow?',' says Lucy Yaldezian, who

Jonathan Schwartz in July delivered what must be a leading candidate or the title of 'i-technology quote of 2004' - but who has even better suggestions?