Microsoft and Siebel Systems have announced an alliance that will tie Siebel's customer relationship management software to Microsoft's .Net architecture. Based on Extensible Markup Language (XML) and web services standards, Siebel's Universal...
Until then, the Jupiter codename will be promoted by pictures of the planet Jupiter and its moons - which amateur astronomers at the IT Forum said had errors such as including the moon Io twice. Users want to have features unified around business...
On top of the proposed document formats, the OASIS UBL group has released diagrams based on the unified modeling language (UML), a standard for software development, that give software engineers tools to build applications using XML documents.
Collaboration increases the speed of execution of a project in several ways. It's based on a binary portable, language-independent, multimedia platform from Tao Group, called intent. Virtual workspaces co-ordinate activities more closely when a...
The whole world has settled on a single modelling language to describe the innards of applications, known as the Unified Modelling Language (UML). Later, software tools such as software through pictures started a fashion in using models to...
The year saw backing for a variety of open source projects such as JBoss, an application server; SugarCRM, customer relationship management software; Narnia, Linux migration tools and support for SMBs; Zend, the company behind the PHP scripting...