With Zoomit's technology, users will be able to synchronise and move information from myriad legacy directories into a main Microsoft Active Directory repository. A collection of software vendors lead by IBM and Novell have announced an initiative...
Big Blue announced there will be special APIs for applications developed under the open source system. It is a collection of development tools from the AIX world, which have been tailored for Linux. When using the new Linux interfaces in IBM's Unix...
Essential to all this is Sun ONE, the recently announced Open Net Environment that comprises some new Java APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and which allow the programming language to communicate with XML-based documents.
IBM's WebSphere application server platform is too full of proprietary technologies to allow real interoperability with other systems according to UK messaging technology firm SpiritSoft. The firm today criticised Big Blue for bundling together old...
The software is a set of Java application programming interfaces (APIs) that lets developers create what IBM is calling a transcription portlet, which transcribes words spoken through a telephone or other voice application.
It stands in stark contrast to proprietary software such as Microsoft's Windows operating system, IBM's WebSphere business software and Oracle's database. IBM said the patents it's liberating cover a broad range of technologies, including linking...