<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE</title><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:49:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/108/adj-mag-logo-145.gif</url><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>More on the Software Assembly Question - Do Design Patterns Help?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566433.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566433.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566433_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[One aspect of the debate over software productivity and assembly is whether or not visual tools can help. I think that they do - visual abstractions can be very meaningful - but I do not know of any visual system that actually solves the complete problem (i.e none have solved the customization/round trip problem). UML tools are furthermore too object oriented for some applications - such as services and REST.]]></description></item><item><title>Wall Street Unsure About HP&apos;s Acquisition of EDS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566387.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566387.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566387_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[HP CEO Mark Hurd has finally done something that Wall Street doesn't like - he's buying EDS, the IT infrastructure outsourcing outfit founded in 1962 by one-time presidential hopeful and outsourcing pioneer Ross Perot, for around $13.9 billion cash - a venture that some people think is poor use of money better spent elsewhere.]]></description></item><item><title>AMD Whistles Up New Champions To Slay its Dragons</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566429.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566429.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566429_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[AMD has kissed Mario Rivas good-bye and turned processor development over to Randy Allan, the head of its star-crossed server and workstation business, reporting to president and COO Dirk Meyer. Allan is now the new head of AMD's Computing Solutions Group, responsible for the bulk of the company's revenues.]]></description></item><item><title>Software AG Webinar: Business Infrastructure Software How SOA Helps Accelerate Success with BPM</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/567202.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/567202.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/567202_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[BPM is being used by many organizations to gain new levels of visibility and control into their critical business processes. By leveraging a SOA architecture approach when implementing BPM, these organizations can accelerate project success, enabling rapid gains in productivity, implementation and cost savings.]]></description></item><item><title>Embotics Identifies High Costs Associated with Virtual Sprawl</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/567142.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/567142.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/567142_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Embotics introduced a whitepaper describing the costs associated with virtual sprawl and suggestions on estimating the cost of sprawl in an enterprise environment. The nature of virtualization frequently leads to the misconception that virtual machines (VMs) have no real associated costs, despite the high costs associated with infrastructure, management, software and administration. The truth is that VMs have real costs similar to physical servers; and these costs increase with virtual sprawl. The costs of virtual sprawl take up budget, time and eventually require the purchase of more physical servers than needed. This can frequently negate the company?s return on investment which is the greatest benefit of virtualization.]]></description></item><item><title>Aptec Becomes Authorized Distributor of VMware Virtualization Solutions</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566619.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566619.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566619_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Aptec Distribution has been appointed the authorized distributor for VMware in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. Bahaa Salah, Managing Director for Aptec Distribution, said, 'VMware is a strategic partnership for us, helping us build our one-stop-shop concept by offering virtualization solutions to our channel partners so that they, in turn, can offer complete turnkey solutions including support and services to their customers. VMware virtualization today has become a standard platform for companies of all sizes. VMware offers the leading and proven products to enable customers to reduce capital and operating expenses; ensure business continuity, strengthen security and lower carbon emissions.']]></description></item><item><title>IBM Unveils Insurance Operations of the Future Powered By SOA</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565543.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565543.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565543_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM announced two new advances in the insurance industry - a solution for improving operational efficiency and a framework for process acceleration - that are designed to help insurance providers lower costs and increase customer satisfaction by handling core processes, such as claims and policy processing, more efficiently. Once implemented insurance companies will be able to automate and optimize their business tasks; allowing employees to focus more attention on customer-facing matters.]]></description></item><item><title>Exclusive Q&amp;A with Jeff Haynie, Co-Founder &amp; CEO, Appcelerator</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/499357.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/499357.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/499357_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['We're dedicated to building the largest open-source community dedicated to RIAs, breaking down the barriers between traditional preferred languages, programming models and solutions,' says the co-founder & CEO of Appcelerator, Jeff Haynie, in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan. To date Appcelerator has seen the strongest amount of interest from Java and PHP developers, Haynie notes, but he says the company has continued to see steady growth across Ruby, Python, Perl and .NET programmers as well.]]></description></item><item><title>How To Launch a Successful Technology Start-Up</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/479616.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/479616.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/479616_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['Ten years ago,' Coach Wei tells Jeremy Geelan in this exclusive interview with AJAXWorld Magazine, 'I was as a poor graduate student naive enough to start a company at the bottom of the 'dot-bomb' burst. I learned so much coping with the 'nuclear winter,' raising $18M in financing, working through all the challenges associated with the market, dealing with investors and everything else. I only wish that I had known all this before I got started.']]></description></item><item><title>HP Tipped To Buy EDS To Level Playing Field with IBM</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564566.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564566.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564566_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard is supposed to be this close to buying Electronic Data Systems for somewhere in the heady neighborhood of $12 billion-$13 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal, a pretty premium over its $9.5 billion market cap Friday. The paper thinks there could be an announcement on Tuesday. Buying the consultant is meant to help HP compete on the services side against rival IBM.]]></description></item><item><title>Federal Circuit Hears Case That Could Stem Software Patents</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563106.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563106.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563106_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit en banc heard oral arguments Thursday in the Bilski case, which, if their honors get to feeling radical and rule broadly, could outlaw not only business methods patents in the United States but - by extension - void all existing software patents and patent applications. It could take the court maybe nine months and into a new administration to decide.]]></description></item><item><title>Survey Shows Links Between Server Virtualization and Networked Storage</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564196.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564196.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564196_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Seanodes released the results of a third-party survey of IT professionals that shows that the transition from direct attached storage to networked storage is dictated by needs that come with server virtualization, such as VM migration, elevating costs and complexity, while taxing performance and management. The survey, with respondents including network and systems administrators and other IT personnel from organizations of all sizes, sheds light on how virtualized infrastructures raise the levels of stress and demand on networked storage, creating a tenuous situation of economic sustainability against the high costs of improved storage performance.]]></description></item><item><title>3PAR Integrates With VMware Site Recovery Manager Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564195.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564195.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564195_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[3PAR announced the 3PAR Replication Adapter for VMware Site Recovery Manager. This software enables 3PAR Remote Copy, 3PAR's remote data replication software for 3PAR InServ Storage Servers, and VMware Site Recovery Manager, a pioneering product for disaster recovery management and automation, to provide end-to-end disaster recovery for utility computing. VMware Site Recovery Manager is part of VMware's suite of management and automation products for the datacenter.]]></description></item><item><title>FalconStor Develops Storage Replication Adapter for VMware Site Recovery Manager Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564124.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564124.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564124_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[FalconStor announced FalconStor Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) for VMware Site Recovery Manager. VMware Site Recovery Manager is a pioneering product for disaster recovery management and automation. Part of VMware's suite of management and automation products for the datacenter, VMware Site Recovery Manager simplifies business continuity planning and testing, and reduces the risk and complexity associated with implementing disaster recovery.]]></description></item><item><title>ParAccel Announces OEM Relationship with IBM</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564249.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564249.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564249_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ParAccel announced it has entered into an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with IBM. Under the terms of the agreement, ParAccel will embed IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture within the ParAccel Analytic Database, providing ParAccel customers with seamless and real-time updates from heterogeneous databases, including IBM DB2, Oracle, and Microsoft's SQL Server. Customers can use this ability to create high performance operational data stores and tactical analytic applications such as operational BI.]]></description></item><item><title>VMware Stage Manager Virtualization Gets Applications Into Production Faster and More Reliably</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563927.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563927.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563927_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[VMware announced that VMware Stage Manager, a product for accelerating and automating the delivery of applications from staging to production, is now available for order. Joining VMware's suite of management and automation products for the datacenter, VMware Stage Manager automates the process of transitioning application environments in the virtual datacenter through the stages of the release process - from integration to testing to staging and to user acceptance - before being released into production. Now, instead of having to keep track of multiple instances of configurations throughout these stages, IT managers using VMware Stage Manager can automate the application release process so changes and updates are automatically managed and controlled. This simplifies management, minimizes errors, and speeds application delivery.]]></description></item><item><title>Premiere Global Opens New Markets With FioranoMQ</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563705.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563705.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563705_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Fiorano Software announced that Premiere Global Services, a global provider of on-demand business process improvement solutions chose FioranoMQ to enhances its e-mail marketing product lines with higher response rates, instant consumer actions and direct results tracking.]]></description></item><item><title>Xsigo Expands Virtualization Channel Relationships</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563792.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563792.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563792_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Xsigo Systems announced that it has added two new channel partners in the United States to distribute its I/O virtualization technology to enterprise customers. By using Xsigo's technology, it is estimated that users can lower their server-related operating expenses by up to 80%, cut capital costs by 50%, and use 70% less cabling -- resulting in 100x faster server management.]]></description></item><item><title>JFX and the Way Forward After JavaOne 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564123.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564123.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564123_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[There were several JavaFX-related announcements and demos at JavaOne, not the least of which is the preview release of the JavaFX SDK due in June 2008.  As the interpreted version of JavaFX was the prototype for the compiled version, the javafx.ui classes are the prototype for the javafx.gui classes that were shown at JavaOne and will be released in the SDK.  These javafx.gui libraries will have a streamlined, faster performing API, as well as support for multimedia. In June, JavaFX will have turned a significant corner, out of the prototype stage and becoming more mature.]]></description></item><item><title>WaveMaker Introduces Visual AJAX for Mac</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/550350.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/550350.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 03:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/550350_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[WaveMaker announced the release of Visual AJAX Studio version 3.2. The new version introduces a beta installer for Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) and full support for the Safari Browser, bringing WaveMaker's drag-and-drop Java development to the Mac.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - Skyway Software Announces RIA Developer Contest</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/562838.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/562838.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/562838_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[According to Sean Walsh, President and CEO of Skyway Software, 'Our Skyway Community is thriving and our members are very talented. We truly look forward to their RIAs submittals and Skyway Builder extensions and are excited that all of the contributions will benefit the entire Skyway Community.' With Skyway Builder CE, Java developers get an open source Eclipse-based plugin that offers a seamless blend of coding and modeling for delivering RIAs and Web Services in Spring. Unlike any other modeling tool, Skyway Builder CE provides comprehensive modeling capabilities at four distinct application layers:]]></description></item><item><title>EnterpriseDB Releases Java Application Generator Plug-in for Postgres Studio</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/561678.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/561678.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/561678_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[EnterpriseDB released a plug-in for Postgres Studio that creates an AJAX-enabled Java application based on a Postgres database table or schema. Postgres Studio is a graphical database administration console that is built on the widely admired pgAdmin foundation and only available as part of Postgres Plus. The plug-in generates Java source code, scripts, NetBeans, and Eclipse project files for screen-based applications that can create, read, update, and delete records in target Postgres databases. The plug-in extensively leverages the JBoss Seam Framework, creating a pre-configured Seam environment for Postgres Plus.]]></description></item><item><title>Rogue Wave to Speak at the 2008 JavaOne Conference</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/561738.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/561738.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/561738_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Rogue Wave announced that Patrick Leonard, Vice President, Engineering and Product Strategy, will be a panel member at the 2008 JavaOne Conference. The panel session, 'Open Standards for SOA and Java,' will take place on Wednesday, May 7 at 4:10 PM. The discussion will address questions about the Service Component Architecture (SCA) standard and its relationship to Java and C++ technology-based SOA development. Of particular interest to Rogue Wave customers is how these standards can assist with parallel computing for high-performance applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Coverity Introduces Thread Analyzer for Java</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/561679.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/561679.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/561679_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Coverity announced the release of Coverity Thread Analyzer for Java. The product is a dynamic analysis tool for multi-threaded applications that automatically detects concurrency defects that can cause data corruption and application failures. Coverity Thread Analyzer can also be used in concert with Coverity Prevent, the static analysis tool, to create a software quality solution that will help developers control the complexity of writing multi-threaded applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Why Is an Enterprise RIA Platform Different?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/507885.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/507885.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/507885_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Why is an Enterprise RIA Platform different? Simple: it must handle the demands of enterprise class applications. Enterprise applications routinely require interaction with very large data sets. This means that a web application must be optimized to deliver high response times even when data sets approach 100,000+ records.]]></description></item><item><title>On-Demand Platform as a Service to Enable Java and AJAX Over the Cloud</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/560857.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/560857.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/560857_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Morph Application Platform for Java, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that virtualizes the application environment and leverages cloud computing resources such as the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is now in limited developer preview. Webtide, the team behind Jetty, has brought that Java web server to the Morph Application Platform. Through its developer advice and support, Webtide has played a key role in the implementation of Java into the Morph Application Platform to extend the functionality to include deploying and delivering Java applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Financial Services Companies Reduce Power Consumption with &quot;Green&quot; Virtualization Storage from Compellent</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559504.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559504.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 18:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559504_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Compellent announced that two of its financial services customers, Ares Management and Credit Union of Colorado, have reduced the physical and carbon footprint of their data centers, lowering the overall cost of ownership of their technology infrastructure. The efficient Compellent SAN has enabled both companies to measurably decrease hardware expenditures and the associated energy consumption.]]></description></item><item><title>Belgacom Selects FortiGate-5000 Systems for Virtualization Capabilities</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559505.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559505.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 18:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559505_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Fortinet announced that Belgacom has selected Fortinet's consolidated network security solutions as the cornerstone of its 'Integrated Security Services,' part of 'Belgacom Explore.' Fortinet's FortiGate-5000 carrier-class systems along with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer, two sophisticated management, logging and reporting tools, as well as Fortinet's FortiGuard Subscription Services will fuel Belgacom's launched managed security service.]]></description></item><item><title>Boot Barn Selects Epicor Retail SaaS Solution</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559107.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559107.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559107_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Epicor announced Boot Barn has selected the Epicor Retail Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to streamline its retail operations and support its long-term growth plans. Boot Barn was one of four Retail SaaS deals Epicor signed during the first quarter of 2008. To support its current growth strategy, Boot Barn sought an end-to-end fully integrated, retail solution to replace existing disparate systems and in doing so, eliminating the manual processes required to integrate and share data among these systems. To this end, Boot Barn chose the Epicor Retail SaaS solution over a number of competitors to provide the infrastructure and retail best practices to support its strategic growth.]]></description></item><item><title>A Look at Some Heavy Hitters and Newcomers in the RIA Market</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/540504.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/540504.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 07:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/540504_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In the world of Rich Internet Applications, there is no shortage of technology choices to compose a user interface. But what tools will give us the best bang for our buck? Here is a look at some heavy hitters and newcomers in the RIA market, including: HTML & AJAX, Rails and Grails, Flex, Silverlight, Curl, GWT, OpenLaszlo, and Appcelerator.]]></description></item><item><title>Beyond AJAX to the Rich Internet Application &amp; Rich Interactive Experience Era</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/490851.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/490851.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/490851_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[RIAs offer the potential to fundamentally change the user experience and in doing so, yield significant business benefits. The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is currently still open, specifically encourages submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases of the fast-emerging RIA alternatives.]]></description></item><item><title>Nitobi Uprades AJAX Component Suite with Safari Support</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553294.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553294.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553294_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Nitobi enhanced its AJAX component suite with the release of Complete UI Q2 2008. This release strengthens the popular AJAX development tools with Safari 3 support, a new hierarchical grid component, a variety of new themes, and multi-component Dreamweaver extensions that make use-cases like master-detail grids even easier.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - ILOG Targets RIA Development on .NET Platform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553185.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553185.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553185_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ILOG announced that its latest graphics toolkits for the .NET platform are aimed at helping Microsoft developers create rich internet applications (RIA), specifically interactive and visually-rich diagrams and Gantt charts. ILOG Diagrammer for .NET 1.5 and ILOG Gantt for .NET 3.5, ILOG's graphics toolkits for creating diagrams and Gantt charts for the .NET platform, now support Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and ASP.NET AJAX for RIA development.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX E-mail Client Integrates Into Web 2.0 Applications</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553295.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553295.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553295_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Zapatec introduced the Zapatec AJAX E-mail Client, the second in a series of self-contained modules designed for integration into Web 2.0 applications. Zapatec's AJAX E-mail Client enables developers to add needed web-based e-mail functionality to their applications, freeing them to focus on their core business.]]></description></item><item><title>Forrester Turns Its Back to AJAX</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/552382.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/552382.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/552382_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I know, it's not nice and I should behave as if it's not that important to me, but I can't. During the last two and a half years I've been writing, openly speaking, whistle-blowing, and whispering that AJAX is a wrong way to go for developing rich Internet application. But 99% of the software developers were singing hosannas to AJAX. Forrester was selling this 7-page report for $379, while I've written dozens of pages for free. But who am I!  Forrester said that AJAX does your body good. The author of that report has published yet another article explaining when it makes sense to use  AJAX. But it seems that Forrester is turning 180 degrees now.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - Who Will Win the Next Battle for the Desktop?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548350.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548350.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548350_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The computer desktop today is what the television was to people in the 1980s. It's the single most important channel for consumer entertainment and information. The computer desktop - as was the case with newspapers before there was radio and radio before there was television - has become the high ground from which empires are built.]]></description></item><item><title>Catalyst Resources and Backbase Will Do AJAX</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/550051.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/550051.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/550051_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Catalyst Resources and Backbase announced an alliance to provide an end-to-end design and development solution for rich Customer Engagement and Enterprise AJAX applications. AJAX, already the technology of choice for rapid development and deployment of Rich Internet Applications, is being adopted at a rapid pace by small and medium size businesses as well as large enterprises. But companies face a number of hurtles as they try to make this RIA transition. While it is easy to add in a few flashy widgets to a webpage, it requires a different level of expertise to enhance user experience with measurable business value and develop code that is scalable, high performance, and easily maintained.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - Curl Launches Adobe AIR Competitor</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548226.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548226.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548226_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Curl announced the beta release of Curl Nitro, the code name for an extension of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform which offers enhanced desktop capabilities required by today's enterprises. The Nitro extension simplifies the process of installing and managing Curl applications accessed via a browser as well as directly from the desktop. Curl Nitro is the only platform for both traditional RIA and Desktop RIA that provides enterprise-level security, high performance and support for large data sets.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - Backbase Introduces Customer Engagement 2.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548676.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548676.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548676_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Backbase introduced Customer Engagement 2.0, rich applications that help businesses make stronger, more profitable customer connections. The new application suite takes advantage of Web 2.0 technologies to ease and expand customer relationships. Backbase Customer Engagement 2.0 applications are built on top an Enterprise AJAX framework and are fully based on open AJAX industry standards.]]></description></item><item><title>Good News for AJAX &amp;ndash; The Browser Wars Are Back!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547209.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547209.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547209_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[After years of dominance by a single browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), and few advances within IE, the world has changed. There is now healthy competition among multiple browsers over standards compliance, AJAX features, AJAX performance and trustworthy computing. The competition is reaching beyond the desktop to include the emerging world of mobile browsing. This healthy competition will result in important new capabilities within AJAX toolkits and will help accelerate the adoption of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 technologies.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX and Open Source Communities Must &quot;Liberate&quot; the HTML Web from the Unweb</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547197.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547197.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547197_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Web development and customer expectations have far outstripped the table management capabilities of HTML. The web needs to evolve to support building the Rich Internet Applications that people want to use. At the same time, web tools need to evolve to be able to handle the increasing complexity of building these apps. Is the only solution to improve the grid to break HTML by going to a proprietary solution like Silverlight? It is up to the AJAX and open source communities to 'liberate' the HTML web from the Unweb.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - Adobe Flex 4 Is Shaping Up</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/544517.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/544517.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/544517_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Adobe has published their first plan of what should be included in Flex 4 that is scheduled to release next year. Since Flex is an open source product, you have a say in this too. Obviously, there's a hope that upcoming Thermo release will bring together developers and designers. I'm cautiously optimistic here. It's great that a  designer's tool will automatically generate MXML. A developer will pick it up and re-factor. But will the tool be smart enough to reverse-engineer the re-factored code and present it back in a visual form to the designer for further work? That is a million dollars question.]]></description></item><item><title>Cynergy Selected by Microsoft for Global Agency Initiative</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/546582.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/546582.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/546582_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Cynergy Systems announced it has been selected by Microsoft to participate in the Microsoft Global Agency Initiative. This invitation-only initiative has resulted in a group of the top 20 interactive agencies that Microsoft recommends to its customers. Cynergy has developed a number of applications utilizing Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation for customers. The company was also the national winner at last month's PhizzPop Design Challenge, a contest hosted by Microsoft where more than 30 Web design and development firms competed to develop the best rich Internet applications using Microsoft Silverlight.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX Push Comes of Age</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/546809.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/546809.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/546809_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[AJAX Push has always been an integral capability of the ICEfaces framework, but for the longest time it was not a primary consideration of the average technology evaluator. We always found this surprising, because the impact that push can have on a web application is far more profound than AJAX's primary claim to fame - eliminating the full page refresh. In recent months, however, we have seen a marked change in demand for push technology within the ICEfaces community, and we are now involved with a large number of projects where AJAX Push is front and center on the requirements list. So when people are evaluating their options for achieving web-based push, what makes them decide on ICEfaces?]]></description></item><item><title>Cynergy Helps Concentric Software Drive Change in the Real Estate Industry</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/543774.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/543774.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/543774_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Cynergy Systems shared details of a Web 2.0 application that will drive change throughout the Real Estate industry. Known as EvolutionMLS , the browser and operating system-agnostic rich Internet application leverages the power of the Web to fully utilize the possibilities of the MLS (Multiple Listing Service).]]></description></item><item><title>Backbase Releases Enterprise AJAX 4.2, Offering Developers &quot;Choice&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/545182.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/545182.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/545182_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Backbase introduced Enterprise AJAX 4.2, a new version of the AJAX framework. This new release gives developers more choice than any other AJAX framework. Choice translates into unmatched productivity, as AJAX developers can choose their preferred technology and methodology.]]></description></item><item><title>DreamFace Interactive Launched The DreamFace Developer Challenge At AJAXWorld 2008 East</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/543026.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/543026.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/543026_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[At the AJAXWorld 2008 East Conference, DreamFace Interactive launched their DreamFace Developer Challenge. DreamFace invited developers to download the new version of their DreamFace Web 2.0 Framework for creating Enterprise 2.0 Mashups, and to build their own DreamFace DataWidgets for submission.]]></description></item><item><title>Anthony Franco&apos;s AJAXWorld Keynote - &quot;RIAs Are Only Valuable If They Are Useful&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/523818.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/523818.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/523818_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Most of what is being produced even by the best Web designers right now is not useful, said EffectiveUI President Anthony Franco in his morning keynote at the 5th International AJAXWorld Conference & Expo in New York City last month. Displaying a Starbucks Coffee site that he called 'awful' and a Target.com site that he called 'not navigable,' Franco recounted how his hunt for bad experiences - sites not talking to their customers - led him to the conclusion that companies are in love with 'shiny objects' rather than actual useful and engaging online experiences.]]></description></item><item><title>ICEfaces 1.7 Is Here! - Something for Everyone</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/542824.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/542824.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/542824_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ICEfaces 1.7 is here! A lot of sweat and a few tears went into it, and it took a little longer to arrive than many of us would have liked, but I think you'll be very pleased with how it turned out. The culmination of over 45 enhancements, 110 improvements, and 300 bug fixes, there's no question that it's a major leap forward in the evolution of ICEfaces. With significant enhancements and improvements in every direction you look, there is truly something here for everyone.]]></description></item><item><title>Book Review: Advanced AJAX by Shawn M. Lauriat</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/534101.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/534101.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/534101_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Because AJAX moves so much application logic from the server to the client, it forces many developers to master a wider range of web technologies than ever before. To work effectively on AJAX projects, front-end developers have to concern themselves with database performance, business logic and other server-side concerns. Back-end and middleware developers, meanwhile, have to make friends with XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and a wide range of browsers.]]></description></item></channel></rss>