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EnterpriseWizard offers customizable CRM
EnterpriseWizard this week is releasing the 2.0 version of its CRM application, a product built on top of its SaaSWizard Web application development platform and designed to be easily customizable. More..

IBM gearing up to tie together collaboration pieces
IBM next week will spend less time at its annual Lotusphere conference introducing new products and more time upgrading and aligning the pieces of its current software portfolio with real-time communications, collaboration, social networking and composite applications.  More..

Start-up’s appliance accelerates ASP.Net apps
An appliance that accelerates dynamic Web applications built with the Microsoft ASP.Net framework is being announced today by a Canadian start-up called Strangeloop Networks. More..

Borders preps for life after Amazon with new Web site
Despite being one of the largest bookstore chains in the United States, Borders for several years has relied on Amazon to operate its entire online business. More..

Business Objects upgrades mobile analytics tool
Business Objects today announced an upgraded version of its business intelligence software that lets mobile users, with a BlackBerry or other handheld device, view reports and initiate business processes based on the data they see. More..

Microsoft ponders Ruby language
Microsoft is "very interested" in the Ruby programming language and also plans to expand its Expression design tools line, a Microsoft official said this week. More..

CodeGear extends Delphi for PHP, Vista, AJAX
PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) developers will get an assist from CodeGear on Tuesday, with the introduction of a rapid application development environment for the scripting language. More..

Reports: Open source gathers steam
Separate reports from The 451 Group and Evans Data this week confirm what seems obvious: open source software is impacting commercial software companies and continues to gain adoption worldwide. More..

Compuware details quality management product
Compuware, Parasoft, and AutomatedQA this week plan to offer products to improve software development processes, with Compuware focused on quality assurance, Parasoft on SOA testing, and AutomatedQA on build and release management. More..

Palm finally delivers real push e-mail
After many months, even years, of promising an e-mail push technology equivalent to what the RIM BlackBerry service offers, it looks like Palm has finally done it. More..

Microsoft makes multimedia app design play
At its ExpressionSession07 event on Thursday, Microsoft drove home the point that multimedia technologies are critical to applications and that it is ready to be a major player in this space. More..

Q&A: Cobol lives on
Cobol may not make headlines much these days, with technologies such as Java and .Net viewed as the glamorous, contemporary platforms and Cobol seen as legacy code. More..

Spring Framework is in the air
Although Java itself was only offered up to open source last month, many open source development projects have arisen around Java already. One of the better known ones, the Spring Framework , will be the subject of a technical conference this week. More..

Castle built for .Net
Castle , which is an open source project to ease development on Microsoft's .Net platform, is nearing its general release. More..

Sun CEO: Open source Java is 'momentous'
Sun Microsystems's offering of the Java platform via open source under the GNU General Public License is a "momentous" change, said Sun President/CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Monday. But IBM wants the Apache Software Foundation in charge of Java. More..

IBM prepares open source systems management initiative
IBM and other parties are set to propose an open source systems management initiative for consideration by the Eclipse Foundation, with managing SOA a goal of the plan, an IBM official said at the EclipseWorld 2006 conference on Friday. More..

LinuxWorld: Palamida, Black Duck advance IP wares
Palamida and Black Duck Software, both of which provide intellectual property compliance services, are using the occasion of the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco this week to reveal product expansions. More..

HP's software stock rises with Mercury buyout
HP has been snapping up software companies for the past couple of years, but its plans to acquire application-management specialist Mercury Interactive should give the system vendor the boost it needs to convince customers it is serious about software, analysts say.  More..

Sun CTO: Incremental open-sourcing of Java is the way
Expect the open-sourcing of the Java programming language to be done in incremental steps, with some pieces available by next June - but not the entire platform, Robert Brewin, co-CTO of Sun Microsystems' software group, said Monday afternoon. More..

Adobe pumps up rich Internet apps with Flex 2
Looking to increase adoption of its Flex rich Internet application development technology, Adobe Wednesday is releasing its Flex 2 product line, which features free versions and the ability to push data to clients. More..

Tech Ed: Microsoft AJAX framework forges ahead
Microsoft's planned Atlas framework for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) faces difficulty with its development, but promises to be a top-notch offering for the trendy Web-scripting technique, a moderator of a TechEd 2006 session said Wednesday. More..

Intel Capital invests in open-source middleware start-up
Open source Web services startup WS02 Thursday officially announced its first software, Tungsten, and a key investor, Intel's venture capital arm. More..

Sprint sues IBM over failed outsourcing deal
Published reports say Sprint is suing IBM over a botched outsourcing contract. More..

HP set to unveil IT shared services offering
Leveraging its intimate knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, HP will announce on Wednesday, IT Shared Services Portfolio, a two-part offering that industry analysts say will raise the level of its consulting services. More..

AJAX presents corporate problems, opportunities
The popularity of applications such as Google Maps and Flickr has Web developers flocking to the technologies that make these rich, interactive programs work. But industry watchers caution the Web scripting components known collectively as AJAX can be more complex - and less network friendly - than they might first appear. More..