Hoping it has identified the "killer app" for the ASP (application service provider) model, Merant International has created Merant ASaP, a new ASP that will rent out tools to help developers manage, track, and communicate during the application development life cycle.
IBM on Tuesday said it is entering the market for mainframe database tools.
With analyst firms estimating that IBM has upwards of 75 per cent of the database mainframe market, the company claims this is a natural outgrowth.
Focusing on providing tools to build e-business infrastructures, Commerce One Inc. announced on Monday that it has selected Progress Software's SonicMQ E-Business Messaging Server for use with the Commerce One MarketSite Portal solution.
Information Builders Inc. next month will announce products to extend enterprise data to a variety of portable devices, including the ability to query data via wireless systems.
EMC and Torrent Systems have teamed to provide users of EMC storage systems with a means to move and analyze data.
Informatica, in Palo Alto, Calif. announced on Wednesday that it acquired mobile applications provider Zimba, in Oakland, Calif., and plans to pair its own analytic applications with Zimba's wireless technologies.
At the annual meeting of its user group this week in Philadelphia, Rational Software announced a tools initiative and related specification to enable developers to reuse software programming assets.
Ariba on Tuesday announced an updated version of its Buyer e-procurement software that is aimed at international business-to-business e-commerce.
Microsoft and Seagate Software announced on Monday that when Visual Studio.NET ships, Seagate's Crystal Reports will be more tightly integrated with the suite of development tools than it has in the past.
Java and Linux have drawn closer together with both Sun Microsystems and Inprise/Borland making moves to increase the uptake of this combination of technologies.
Sun has announced two new agreements that promise to expand the distribution of Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) on Linux platforms.
IBM, Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Hyperion Solutions banded together last week to create a Java-based platform-independent OLAP (online analytical processing) specification for creating and managing data in OLAP servers.
The Object Management Group (OMG) is planning to meet next month to work on the evolution of standards such as CORBA and UML (Unified Modeling Language) standards.
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced that it bought project resource management technology from eLabor.com, in Camarillo, Calif.
IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., and Hyperion Solutions Corp. are co-developing a Java-based, platform-independent specification for creating and managing data in OLAP (online analytical processing) servers.
Moving into the IA-64 computing fray, Inprise/Borland Corp. in Scotts Valley, Calif. announced on Tuesday that it will port its tools to the 64-bit versions of Windows 2000 and Red Hat Inc. Linux, as they become available and Intel Corp. ships the Itanium chipset.