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IBM preach business-driven development

Big Blue this week announced new tools and a commitment to better align business, operational and development goals of enterprise software applications in a bid to reduce failed projects. Read more »

Shareholder calls for Borland breakup

A former Borland board member wants the company split along development tool lines and is developing a plan to make it happen. Read more »

Borland segues from coding to lifecycle management

The company that created many famous names in software development is quitting the coding tools market and will concentrate purely on the process of software creation, backed by its purchase of Segue Software. Read more »

Java tools effort seeks common ground

Sun, BEA and other software companies are set to announce an interoperable tools effort called the Java Tools Community--but don't look for Java powerhouse IBM in the mix. Read more »

'Free' is the new 'cheap' for software tools

James Gosling, a vice president and fellow at Sun Microsystems, once quipped that the average software developer spends more on cafe lattes than on tools. Read more »

Sun urges Eclipse to unify Java world

Java steward Sun Microsystems has sent a letter to members of Eclipse, urging the increasingly influential open-source project to unify rather than fragment the Java-based development tool market. Read more »

Microsoft places bet on Whitehorse

Microsoft this year will seek to distance itself from Java rivals with tools designed to streamline how Windows-based business software is built and used. Read more »

Borland creates new company for tools business

Borland announced overnight they have not sold its developer tools group Read more »

Borland to assemble Java with .NET

Borland Software expects later this year to deliver on its plans to bundle tools that work with Java and Microsoft's .Net software. Read more »

Borland to wield tools against Microsoft

The revived company readies a software suite to compete against Microsoft's popular Visual Studio.Net. But can it really go toe-to-toe with the tech giant? Read more »

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Features (24)

Model-Driven Development today

Model Driven Design promises to cut development time, reduce bugs, and increase maintainability. Pipe dreams? Maybe not according to Matthew Overington. Read more »

Totally RAD: we road test five IDEs

Builder AU technical editor, David McAmis gets down and dirty with the most popular IDE's to see how they they stack up as Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools. Read more »

IBM gets Rational with open source

Big Blue's tools division is expected to detail its plans for using software from the open source project Eclipse to make its products better integrated and to accelerate development. Read more »

Java jams: five IDEs tested

We put five of the most popular Java Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) up against each other. Find out which tool is tailor made for your development requirements. Read more »

Review: Reporting for duty

In this round-up of some of the most popular reporting tools for developers, we put these tools to the test to see how they stack up against real-world scenarios. Read more »

Can't J2EE and .NET just be friends?

The two Web services standards are now settling into their respective roles and the reasons for choosing one over the other are becoming clearer. But can they play nicely together? Read more »

BT's model of SOA development

British Telecom (BT) Exact is aiming to increase the flexibility of the group's internal systems by adopting a service oriented architecture. We interview the lead architect behind the move. Read more »

Case Study: Powerlan and Application Lifecycle Management

For a company that makes software for a living, having suitable application lifecycle management tools is essential to ensuring a quality outcome for clients. Read more »

Application Lifecycle Management Overview

If you have a group of programmers, their managers and your customers, each with their own way of tracking where a project is up to and whether milestones have been met -- chances are you need software to enforce efficient processes and reporting. This is where application lifecycle management (ALM) products fill their niche. Read more »

Can Borcon 2002 survive the event industry shake-up?

The IT industry conference circuit has been through tough times recently. Once-powerful trade shows have merged, become dramatically smaller and, in many cases, have disappeared altogether. It is in this uncertain climate that Borland Australia is set to roll the dice, playing host to the company's fifth annual conference, dubbed Borcon 2002, which is being staged in Sydney from July 27-30. Read more »

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Blog (2)

The break-up of Borland

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- This week I caught up with David Intersomone, VP of developer relations worldwide, and Malcolm Groves, regional product director for Asia Pacific, from Borland's Developer Tools Group to talk about the immediate and planned future of the group once this division is sold by Borland. Read more »

CodeGear Q&A

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- CodeGear is the new name for Borland's developer tools business. Builder AU spoke to CodeGear about the handover and direction of the developer tools business under the new banner. Read more »

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