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IBM Chief Pitches Obama on $30 Billion Investment in IT Though he's not talking about the same kind of bailout the U.S. auto and finance industries have gotten, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has told members of the Barack Obama transition team that a $30 billion government investment in the IT industry could lead to the creation of more than 900,000 jobs in areas such as broadband access, health care IT and upgrading the electrical grid. CrownPeak Content Management Supports Google Open Social CrownPeak's software-as-a-service CMS now supports the new social networking standards, allowing for publishing of content for inclusion on social networking sites. Analysts Predict Rough Road for BEA Portal Customers CMS Watch, an analyst firm that tracks and evaluates content management technologies, is warning customers to be wary of the risk posed by changes occurring at several major portal vendors, including the fallout from Oracle's acquisition of BEA. Tuning In to Microsoft Silverlight for Olympic Gold Microsoft becomes the online channel of choice for Olympic coverage. The company could have made Silverlight Windows-specific, but it didn't. Salesforce.com Ramping New Year with Focus on Force.com several important 'platform provider' milestones loom in 2008 Influxis to host Adobe's Flash Media Interactive Server 3 The company will host Web TV and presentation applications, among others, based on the latest release of Flash Media Server. IBM Gulps Its Own Web 2.0 Kool-Aid Behind the firewall, Big Blue staffers are embracing a host of conventional and experimental Web technologies. Visualize Social Networks with IBM's Atlas New relationship visualization tools ratchet up IBM's social networking push for the enterprise. Ruby on Rails 2.0 Arrives The latest version of the Web development framework brings enhanced support for REST and beefed up security. Microsoft Ships Volta Web Development Tool The software giant says the tool will help democratize Web development. Alfresco Mashes Up Content Management, Social Computing The open-source company thumbs its nose at Microsoft and EMC, bolstering its ECM software with Web 2.0 tools. Is Google 'Wiki' Getting Whacked for Google 'Sites?' Google Wiki where art thou? We still don't know for sure, but a recent presentation provided some illumination. Yahoo Adds Flash, HTML to Widgets Platform Yahoo Widgets 4.5 offers a new platform for developers and a gallery for consumers. Microsoft Pushes Silverlight Company delivers the beta of the cross-platform tool for building rich Internet applications. Google Gears Allows Offline Web Development At the Google Developer Day event taking place in 10 locations around the world, the company plans to announce an open-source browser developers can use to create Web apps that function offline. Adobe to Release Flex as Open Source The company says it will release code for its Web development tool to the open-source community. RedDot Upgrades Web Content Management Software RedDot releases its newest versions of RedDot CMS 7.5 and LiveServer 7.5, Web content management tools that allow enterprise users to access documents across intranets, schedule tasks and search for documents. Adobe Releases Alpha of Apollo Adobe drops an alpha release of its much-anticipated cross-operating system run-time for Web developers. Google Open-Sources AJAX Toolkit Google announced that it has fully open-sourced its Google Web Toolkit. Primavera Finds Success with Flexibility, Adobe Case Study: Primavera Systems taps Adobe's Flex 2 for a system upgrade to its legacy Web Applications. |
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