CollabNet Intends to Become No.1 in Agile ALM by Acquiring Danube

Enterprise consolidation is the order of the day and here is another piece that fits the bigger picture. CollabNet recently acquired Danube -- a classic case of a development platform vendor acquiring a tool developer. Read on to find out the implications of this acquisition.

Micro Focus Integrates Visual Studio 2010 in Cobol Tools

Micro Focus has announced four new Cobol products to allow developers to utilize Cobol tools directly from within Visual Studio 2010. The new products are to aimed at helping application developers analyze, develop and test code, simplifying their tasks and challenges.

ODA Open Design Alliance Announces DWGdirect.NET Beta Release

The Open Design Alliance (ODA) announces the beta release of DWGdirect.NET, the first ODA platform component built for use with the Microsoft .NET framework.

Use Intel Alpha SDK to Write Netbook Applications and Earn Money

Intel has announced a new opportunity for developers to earn money by writing netbook applications via the Intel® Atom Developer Program community, and selling their applications through future application stores. Developers were told to look for a software development kit (SDK) to help them develop applications and components for netbooks.

Intel Atom Processor Developer Program for Mobile Devices to Spur New Wave of Applications

To encourage the creation of innovative applications for Intel® Atom™ processor-based products, Intel Corporation has launched the Intel® Atom™ Developer Program for independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers.

Eclipse Gets a Silverlight Link

The wait is finally over for developers who want to write Microsoft Silverlight applications using Eclipse. Microsoft has announced a release candidate for an open source development toolset for the Eclipse development environment -- which itself is available in free and commercial versions -- that enables programmers to build applications that use Silverlight front-ends without having to rely on Visual Studio or Expression Studio.

Micro Focus Expands Modernization Solutions Portfolio

Micro Focus has announced the availability of Liant 12, the newest version of its application development product suite. The release includes upgrades to Micro Focus development products including RM/COBOL, Xcentrisity and the RM/COBOL data tool Relativity. According to Micro Focus, Liant 12 includes numerous refinements that improve existing functionality and performance, including larger capacity and increased efficiency for RM/COBOL identifiers and improved compatibility with Windows.

Motorola, Nokia and Genuitec Lead Eclipse Pulsar Initiative

The Eclipse Foundation today announced Pulsar, a new industry initiative to define and create a standard mobile application development tools platform. The initiative is led by Motorola, Nokia and Genuitec. Participating members also include IBM, RIM and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications.

Voting Opens for India's Premier Software Development Awards

The second edition of India's first and premier awards, the Great Indian Developer Awards, for the software developer ecosystem will recognize organizations and products that are contributing to the evangelism, productivity and innovation excellence of the Indian developer ecosystem.

Open Design Alliance Releases DWGdirect.NET Beta

The Open Design Alliance (ODA) announces the beta release of DWGdirect.NET, the first ODA platform component built for use with the Microsoft .NET framework. DWGdirect.NET is a managed component that provides access to a rich subset of the ODA platform, including DWG data access, DWG file creation, and database support. Support for all database entities and system objects is included. Rendering support will be provided in a follow-up release in the coming months.