Developers with a vision of how the next generation of Web services middleware who would like to contribute to Axis2, are encouraged to contact the Apache Foundation. The organization says that any contribution in the form of coding, testing, submitting improvements to the documentatio...

In what may appear to be an abstruse argument to those not intimately involved with spec development, the recent criticism of Apple may appear to be confusing and perhaps irrelevant. But it goes to the heart of the ongoing debates between open-source software (OSS) advocates and the cr...

Microsoft has seemingly been on the right legal track lately, settling claims with Sun and IBM as it moves toward a presumably less litigious future. Now pen computing pioneer Go Corp. has filed a lawsuit pertaining to what it regards as nefarious activity a decade ago to run the compa...

The U.S. Government has made another unilateral decision with respect to a global issue, this time with respect to the Internet. By saying it would maintain control of several root servers, rather than turn them over to ICANN or another international organization, the government has ca...

There are five tracks scheduled at Macromedia's MAX 2005 conference, slated to be held in Anaheim October 16-19. Two of the tracks focus on rich content and applications, with specific sessions on Flash, ColdFusion, Breeze, Flex, creating blogs with Dreamweaver, and elearning.

Norwegian browser developer Opera, whose colorful CEO threatened to swim from Norway to the U.S. if his company met an early performance milestone, has now won a major deal with Motorola to provide its browser on mobile phone worldwide.

Microsoft moved a step closer to tying up all its litigational loose ends with a $775 million agreement with IBM. Over the past few years, the company had previously settled its case with the U.S. government over its business practices and made amends with Sun Microsystems over its use...

The Image Recognition Plugin is the world's first technology that lets developers automate and test websites using images instead of cumbersome X/Y coordinates. It relies only upon the images that are rendered in the browser, regardless of the technology that created them.

Dr. James Gosling, co-inventor of Java and CTO of Sun's Developer Platforms group, spoke with SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan on SYS-CON.TV at the tenth JavaOne Conference in San Francisco. He talked about Java's birthday, its increasingly sophisticated uses, why he's spoken about it at length...

Vivek Paul, CEO of Wipro Technologies, will be joining the venture capital company Texas Pacific Group. Paul is a U.S. citizen, although his job has been to build this Bangalore, India-based company into a world leading software contractor. Wipro is considered one of a Big Three group...

The Plumtree Enterprise Web Development Kit extensions is designed for integrating systems of records such as PeopleSoft, SAP and Siebel. Its code samples and templates are designed to enable developers to rapidly create integration portlet services with the user interface of their cho...

The buffer overflow flaw in the Veritas software could allow an intruder to gain control of a vulnerable system. The tool is used to trigger backup of data on Microsoft Windows servers, to protect the data from computer crashes, storage system catastrophes and other risks.

As the U.S. moves toward its Independence Day Holiday on July 4, Stylus Studio has issued a call to the global community of XML developers to celebrate their independence from incomplete and over-priced XML IDEs. With the new product launch of Stylus Studio 6 XML Enterprise Edition, XM...

QBeans assists developers to rapidly assemble service-oriented applications from their business domain models, which are independent of both application and persistence technologies. This technology independence allows the enterprise to evolve their business objects, services and proce...

Mainsoft's Laurence Moroney spoke with SYS-CON.TV at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco about the company's Visual MainWin for J2EE, which he noted is the only cross-platform development solution that enables .NET and J2EE development teams to work better together, co-developing J...

Golden, CO-based No Magic has announced the beta of its MagicDraw UML 10.0 sotware. The company urges developers to join its Early Access Program to get the quickest access to all of its product devleopments.

Identify AppSight J2EE 6.0 automates and accelerates the tasks of application problem resolution, and is the first application that has the capability to rapidly pinpoint the root cause of configuration problems, the company says.

Panorama 3.0 from OPNET is the program's first new release since the company Altaworks acquisition last year. The new release introduces new dashboard views of application performance for IT managers who focus on production troubleshooting and pre-deployment testing.

Olivier Piou, CEO of intelligent card developer Axalto, noted that it took a decade for the first billion Java Cards to be shipped, but predicted it will take only three years for the next billion. Piou joined Sun?s Scott McNealy during his keynote at the JavaOne Conference in San Fran...

Cambridge, MA-based InterSystems develops and markets the CACHÉ post-relational database and Ensemble universal integration platform worldwide. Cheshire, Conn.-based InsiTech provides XTT? Smart Web Clients for Java tools for Java developers worldwide. InterSystems will collaborate wit...

Wily Technology has announced that Maritime Cargo Processing Plc., the UK's leading specialist in Port Community Systems, has chosen Wily's Introscope product to help Port Community Systems across the UK, to improve processing and logistics capabilities.

IBM's Core Systems Transformation solution (CST) represents a $140 million investment by IBM. It is a comprehensive portfolio of transaction processing platforms and services from IBM, which allow banks to migrate their back-office systems to modern Internet architectures in a phased, ...

'Developers deserve the right to work with a variety of innovative tools to more easily build enterprise applications,' said Steven Harris, vice president, Java Platform Group at Oracle, as Oracle today announced that it will join Sun as the co-specification lead for the EJB 3.0 specif...

'We are not talking about conjecture,' Ross continued, 'We are not talking about things that you might be able to use at some time in the indefinite future. We are talking about real solutions to real problems that people can work with right now. And I think that's really cool thing: t...

Oracle Fusion Middleware is the recently created brand for Oracle's family of existing middleware products, which includes all of the products needed to integrate a number of diverse business applications. The company's division VP spoke with SYS-CON.TV at the JavaOne Conference in San...

As Java turns 10 years old, software engineers and architects, IT managers and C-level executives alike are all converging on San Francisco's Moscone Center. The same is true of the JDJ team. Here's who will be there bringing you first-hand reports of what is being said and done in Jav...

'The code to Solaris is now available to everyone,' writes Greg Burd. 'Why would Sun give up such an asset and is it too late for Solaris? Is this move going to bolster Sun, and turn around this excellent piece of engineering?'

Sun's been in the news recently with its rapprochement with Microsoft and its StorageTek acquisition. Now, on the eve of the tenth JavaOne Conference, McNealy spoke at length with the San Francisco Chronicle. Here is some of what he said...

To complement the recent success of the latest NetBeans software release, Sun is holding the second annual NetBeans Software Day today, Sunday June 26, in San Francisco. Highlights include: the new GUI Builder, code-named Project Matisse.

I'm really jazzed about Java 5.0! We've been treated over the years to incremental improvements in JVM performance. JDK 1.2 brought us the collections framework as well as Swing, the thread context class loader, and improvements in RMI. JDK 1.3 and 1.4 continued in the same vain with l...

Sun and EMC are working to ensure compatibility between EMC family networked storage and the Solaris 10. Per terms of a new agreement, EMC also intends to port key storage management software to Solaris 10.

NetBeans 'is dedicated to providing rock solid software development products (NetBeans IDE, NetBeans Platform),' in its words, and will be holding a free seminar Sunday afternoon, June 26, before this year's JavaOne Conference in San Francisco.

UK-based Netcraft identifies South Korea as the country with the most confirmed 'phishing' websites. The country is listed as the host of almost 10% of all phishing sites in the world. China, Russia, and Taiwan also come up big in this dubious category.

'The main reason for me to leave is that eBay does not absorb innovation at the pace I enjoy, and its focus is narrower than Google,' said former eBay Research Director Louis Monier, when asked why he was switching from eBay to Google, Inc.

The latest issue of SYS-CON's quarterly IT Solutions Guide unveiled at JavaOne in San Francisco. The current issue of the ITSG offers IT solutions from the leading i-technology companies, including ClearNova, EV1 Servers, Extentech, GraphOn, Hosting.com, Synaptris, InterSystems, JadeLi...

Tribe.net has taken the concept of online profiles from being 'closed,' such as Yahoo 360, to 'open,' enabling integration with other sites. The company, based in San Francisco, offers a free online destination that helps local people connect with each other based on shared interests.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said 'We do not intend to offer a person-to-person, stored-value payments system,' in an apparent refutation to recent rumors that the company was going to compete directly with eBay's PayPal service. But what does he really mean?

Apani's new VPN clients for Cisco 3000 VPN gateways represents the company's strongest Cisco support product, and expands Apani's presence as a provider of Windows Mobile operating system security clients that work in both Cisco and Nortel switch environments.

As the CEO and 'HeadSurfer' of EV1Servers, Robert Marsh has directed the Houston-based dedicated server company through spectacular growth. At HostingCon 2005 he gave a keynote: entitled 'You, Too, Can Achieve Web Hosting Growth and Profitability.'

JBoss today released a core piece of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System, JBoss Portal 2.0 - a significant upgrade of its open source, standards-based portal offering.