According to Moore's Law, the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every 24 months. Can software keep up? To do so, software vendors need to tackle the seismic shift in server technology toward 64-bit multi-core servers with massive memory banks. Software vendors have

Within minutes of my blog entry, I received the strangest email notification, alerting me to another blog written by Alan Zeichick, 'co-founder and editorial director of BZ Media, which publishes SD Times and Software Test & Performance, and which also produces the Software Security Su

In my many years of programming, almost 20 years now, I have used countless integrated development environments (IDEs). I have used everything from a simple text editor all the way up to the high-end IDEs that Sybase, IBM, and Oracle use. More recently I have come to embrace the open s

Lots of people have been asking about how to get started with Silverlight, and what they need to do to get up and running with Silverlight quickly. Inspired by blog posts such as Jesse Liberty's, I'm going to take this from first principles, with no prior knowledge assumed. So let's ge

My money is on targeting iPhones and WM devices until Android actually shows up live and in the wild on more than 500,000 devices. Also, don't be fooled about the Android developer challenge. That's not $10million in prize money, that's a $10 million bribe in order to obtain the critic

There's a couple of things that I like about his sample, and a couple of things that worry me. First, I like the idea that there's an Ajax controller. I hope in the final bits it's simply called Controller and they don't make you distinguish between an Ajax controller and a regular con

Sure, Oracle has its award-winning Fusion Middleware SOA-driven tools to integrate these sources. And Oracle already has a roadmap that ultimately merges/migrates its acquired customers into the Oracle fold. But what does an organization do while its waiting for the Fusion-driven SOA e

Python, the open source programming language that sees itself as an alternative to Java and brags about being used at Google, Industrial Light & Magic and NASA, will be having its PyCon user conference March 14-16 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel. Python creator Guido van Rossu

A programming paradigm is a fundamental style of programming that defines the basic programming units to represent problems and how these units work together to solve problems. This field is continuously developing to face up-to-date challenges. The first challenge to having a general-

Today, I'm going to explain how to save some steps by downloading the latest build of the OpenJFX Compiler rather than building it on your machine. If you decided not to build the compiler because it looked like a hassle, then relax - this is a lot easier. Just follow the instructions

This was the challenge: Build a generic system that lets users compare data suppliers in different categories. The data to be compared is defined by XML Schemas, where new schemas will be frequently uploaded and existing schemas may be changed. Moreover, the schemas aren't specifically

According to London-based Rethink Research, in buying Musiwave for $46M in cash and assuming $4M of debt, Microsoft is demonstrating that it 'has finally forgotten about the operating system wars on the handset and moved its platform targets up to the universal entertainment client - i

One of the very useful (and cool) features of compiled JavaFX Script will be closures. In a nutshell, JavaFX Script closures provide the ability to define a function within another function with the inner function having access to the local variables of the outer function. This feature

Once upon a time, software developers wrote code and ruled their kingdoms. Good programs had few bugs and performed their tasks efficiently and with style. The elite programmers went on to become designers who would lead others in their wake, instilling in them good software practices

Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid com

This being the week that virtualization graduated to being an everybody's-g otta-have-one checkbox item, Sun rolled up to Oracle OpenWorld festivities, where Oracle had just unveiled the Xen-based Oracle VM, with its own free young open source Xen-based xVM program for Solaris confident

Looks like Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz should have waited for his boys to give Google's Android spec the once over before endorsing the thing last week expecting Java to get a 'massive endorsement' out of it. Oh, Java gets a 'massive endorsement' all right; it's just not standard off-th

Spring Source, formerly known as Interface21, a provider of open source software for building and deploying mission-critical enterprise applications, announced the release of version 2.5 of the Spring Framework. With a focus on delivering enhanced annotation options, this latest releas

New features and improvements in the next release of NetBeans make it a better IDE for any kind of developer. From editing to browsing, versioning, building, debugging, profiling or visual design, there is great news for everybody. It's that time again. A major, dot-zero release of Net

Here are my thoughts on this. I was expecting Alfred - who is known to be an arrogant and incompetent CEO - to run away from Larry as fast as he could. But this movie usually ends as follows. First, history repeats itself. By that I mean that Alfred should remember Larry's PeopleSoft h

Oracle owns PeopleSoft and JD Edwards; they own SleepyCat; they own BEA; and of course they have their own enterprise database. This means they have the stack from top to bottom, with the exception of an operating system. They can take the CRM and banking and insurance and end-user app

Dana Gardner says: 'Someone had to pull the trigger, and few companies could better leverage and extend the value of BEA than...Oracle.' In addition to Gardner, read what Om Malik, Eric Savitz, Ray Wang, Jeff Nolan, Jason Bell and Curt Monash think...here's what the industry is saying

November 15, BEA will report its financial results for the third quarter, with investors having the opportunity to listen to its financial results conference call over the Internet. Both Larry Ellison and Carl Icahn will doubtless be waiting with considerable interest. Ellison wants to

Carl Icahn, BEA's biggest shareholder with approx 15% of its stock, has told a reporter that it is 'insane' for the company to reject out of hand Oracle's unsolicited bid. 'I'm not saying I accept $17,' Icahn told Reuters. 'It's going to be a three-month process.' BEA is insisting that

BEA's Board of Directors is unlikely to accept Oracle's offer of $17 a share by Sunday, when the Oracle-set deadline for acceptance expires. It says that it would only be willing to begin discussing a sale of the company if the offer price were $21 per share. BEA is maintaining its pos

Former JBoss maestro Marc Fleury has been considering the contenders in any race to counter-bid for BEA in the face of Oracle's $6.6BN bid. His conclusion: Most of the big players would be better off buying Red Hat. 'Red Hat is a better, and potentially cheaper, option for many of the

It's unclear where BEA is going to run and hide to avoid a shotgun wedding, but its board late Friday rejected Oracle's $6.66 billion marriage proposal. In a letter to Oracle that the board made public it expressed irritation that Oracle had made its wooing known and rated Oracle's $17

After Google's Android announcement, at least four big guys should be irritated: Sun Microsystems, Apple, Adobe and Microsoft.Google approaches telephony from the open source side - Linux-based platform, uses Java but does not care about sticking to Java ME - they are planning to use f

I asked what she did for a living. She said she was a software engineer working with SOA. I did not think about my plane ride much until I arrived in San Francisco to attend the SOA World Conference & Expo this past Monday and Tuesday. The first day of the conference as I walked into t

FFE Software has announced the first release of its new Java DB - FirstSQL/J Embedded Mobile Edition. Embedded Mobile is a special packaging of the standard FirstSQL/J Java DB for a small footprint, supporting JME and suitable for other embedded configurations.

It's hard to overestimate the importance of having a good logging facility when you develop distributed applications. Did the client's request reached the server-side component? What did the server send back? Add to this inability of using debuggers while processing GUI events like foc

If you use Adobe Flex Web applications that connect to Plain Old Java Objects on the server side, chances are you use a popular, robust, and freely available server called Apache Tomcat. If you use Eclipse-based Flex Builder, you can smoothly debug both Flex and Java code without leavi

BEA's Deputy CTO Theo Beack, who joined the San Jose, CA-based company in May to do 'all the cool stuff,' according to an exclusive interview with SYS-CON at the time, shared with delegates at SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 in San Francisco today his current thinking about Web 2.0, S

Enterprise software developers and corporate IT architects have established the Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) platform as a leading choice for building enterprise software applications. The platform is widely used for everything from eCommerce Websites to back office data aggregation s

ILOG has expanded its ongoing strategic partnership with Software AG to the webMethods product suite. Building upon the standards-based interoperability that already exists between Software AG's webMethods product line and ILOG JRules, full integration of the products is expected in 20

In the wake of the Google's announcement of Android, its Linux-based cell phone platform, on Monday, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on his blog said he would 'like Sun to be the first platform software company to commit to a complete developer environment around the platform, as we throw Su

Former Sun VP of global information systems strat egy-turned-consultant Larry Singer told at CIO conference in California the other day that he left Sun in March because it's overemphasizing open source when it should be concentrating of generating revenues. According to InfoWorld, Sing

Some of the supported languages are on-the-fly byte-code compilers. For instance, Jython is the Python scripting language that runs in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM.) At runtime Jython converts a Python script into Java Byte Code and runs the script in the JVM. For the on-the-fly byte-

That leaves Java developers in a bad position. Java developers love the clean Unix-based Mac OS X environment for development. But we have been suffering with an unstable developer-only d ont-run-this-in-productio n release of Java 6 for the past year. Mac OS X is now the getto for Java

The three-year-old Dojo Foundation has put out version 1.0 of Dojo, an open source JavaScript toolkit for AJAX development meant for building rich Web 2.0 applications without proprietary plug-ins or single-vendor solutions. The widgetry makes use of Google Gears, Google's solution for