ELC Technologies, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based application developer company, has partnered with FiveRuns Corp. to support enterprise-grade Ruby on Rails (RoR) applications. The partnership will help enable ELC's enterprise customers to actively monitor the performance of their RoR applications.
Those who were denied the opportunity to get the Release Candidate (RC) for the first service pack for Windows Vista last week now have their opportunity, as it's now available for public download.
Santa's not due for awhile yet, but for those waiting on Microsoft's next version of its highly-anticipated virtualization product, it's Christmas day.
Exploits continue to dog Microsoft programs and applications, as a government agency announced this week that a bug is in the wild that takes advantage of a flaw in Microsoft's Access Database.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/13/2007
Norfolk, Va.-based Centric CRM has changed its name to Concursive Corporation to reflect the evolution of the company's product line to beyond customer relationship management (CRM) functionality.
LinkedIn, the business-centric social networking site, this week talked more about opening up its "platform" to select partners
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/12/2007
A year after its initial release, Microsoft today announced it is shipping the first service pack for Office 2007.
- By James E. Powell
- 12/11/2007
As expected, the last Patch Tuesday offers fixes for seven vulnerabilities -- three of them critical -- and sets the tone for 2008 as the "year of the Vista Patch."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/11/2007
Borland plans to integrate business intelligence (BI) capabilities into its Open Application Lifecycle Management (Open ALM) solutions in the coming year.
Borland commissioned a study on the effectiveness of performance measurements in application development projects. The study surveyed 20 application development and project management organizations with revenues ranging from $1 billion to $5 billion.
Nothing has prevented ASP.NET developers from using a model view controller (MVC) architecture. But it's likely to get a lot easier with Microsoft's ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions, which will include the highly anticipated MVC option. The first preview of the technology was released today.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/10/2007
Microsoft released Entity Framework Beta 3 on Dec. 6 and officially announced the third-party database vendors and ADO.NET 2.0 data providers that have agreed to support the framework.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/07/2007
DataDirect Technologies upgraded two of its XML products. The new products include 3.1 versions of the company's XQuery and XML Converters solutions.
Microsoft publishing release candidates of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista's first service pack.
In case there was any doubt that virtualization is the hottest trend in IT, witness the rush of vendors glomming onto this technology.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/06/2007
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference is back on the roster for October 2008 in L.A.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/06/2007
Microsoft's last Patch Tuesday release of 2007 is a big one -- seven fixes, with three of them deemed "Critical" and four labeled "Important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/06/2007
Volta toolset, used with Visual Studio 2008, promises easier deployment of apps beyond the .NET world.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/05/2007
Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of the first component of its new virtualization platform, and laid out a roadmap for opening the platform's source code. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based systems company bills its xVM Ops Center virtualization management tool as a "highly scalable datacenter automation tool for complete management of heterogeneous global IT environments."
- By John K. Waters
- 12/05/2007
Sapient released an agile application lifecycle management (ALM) platform designed to help organizations plan projects, manage change and collaborate. The latest version of the company's ALM software, called ResultSpace, has moved from being an internal Sapient solution to being a generally available product.