Adobe now has a Creative and Interactive Solutions business unit headed by David Wadhwani, who ran its Platform business so the company can take a more integrated approach, and “deliver faster on our vision of multi-screen publishing and drive innovation and support for both Flash and HTML 5 authoring.” John Loiacono who ran Creative Solutions is now heading up a new Digital Media Solutions unit focused on the company’s core digital imaging franchise. Former Omniture CEO Josh James is leaving the company at the end of July and will be replaced by former Omniture biz dev VP Brad Rencher. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said Omniture now represents about 10% of Adobe’s revenue. Adobe bought Omniture 11 months ago for $1.8 billion.

read more

Microsoft plans to release a beta version of its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser sometime in September. Better performance, “same markup” and improved Acid3 test scores are expected. - Microsoft plans to release a beta version of its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser sometime in September. Speaking at the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting on July 29, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner said the company will be moving ahead with a beta of the next generatio...

Novell delivers Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0, a new version of the open-source tool for developers to use Visual Studio to design, code and maintain multiplatform applications. Mono Tools 2.0 features new Mac OS X support. - Novell has delivered Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0, a new version of the open-source tool for developers to use Visual Studio to design, code and maintain multiplatform applications. Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 is an add-in module for the Visual Studio integrated development environm...

Swiss-based web content management (WCM) house Day Software Holding AG got bought Wednesday by Adobe for roughly $240 million (255 million Swiss francs). Adobe is now going to tender for its outstanding stock offering $131.53 a share cash (139 Swiss francs), a 59% premium compared to its performance the last 60 days. Observers believe Day’s been positioning itself so Adobe would buy it. Adobe currently embeds Alfresco’s open source enterprise content management repository in its LiveCycle product and in its Acrobat.com service under an OEM arrangement but Day and Alfresco don’t seem to tangle in the marketplace.

read more

Terracotta is out to cure skimpy cache by making Ehcache really, really big, 1TB in fact, a size only a few people can use right now, but just you wait, it says, the day is upon us when practically everybody with a database will want it to be in-memory. The biggest caches these days are still 100GB-200GB and they’re a lot of work to build. Maybe there are two or three that hit 200 GB. The average, on the other hand, is more like sub-20 gigs. Terracotta swears it’s made it easy to store over a terabyte of data and hundreds of millions of entries in a single cache, so data retrieval is a whole lot faster and clouds and virtualization aren’t bottlenecked.

read more

On Wednesday, Adobe announced it was going to buy Day Software, another WCM manufacturer based in Basel, Switzerland, who uses the same technology foundation as Magnolia. As an initiator of the JCR standard and main contributor to Jackrabbit (the JCR reference implementation), Day is certainly important for the JCR ecosystem. Let's have a look at the possible implications of the deal for Magnolia. Adobe bought Omniture not even a year ago for 1.2B$, which was/is the leader in web analytics. With Day's CQ (their CMS), Adobe now has the final part in their portfolio to create, analyze and publish content. (I couldn't find out yet what part "Adobe Publish" plays. Seems to be an SaaS platform, so probably not competing with CQ.)

read more

Adobe Systems plans to acquire Web content management software provider Day Software for $240 million. - In a move to beef up its ongoing play for the attention and purse strings of enterprise customers, Adobe Systems has announced plans to acquire Web content management software provider Day Software for $240 million. In a press release announcing the acquisition, Adobe said its acquisition of Da...

NaviSite, Inc., a provider of complex hosting, application management and managed cloud services for the enterprise market, is using a combination of Oracle's Sun servers and Oracle software to run its mission-critical systems. With more than 1,500 customers in 10 datacenters across the US and UK, NaviSite needed to expand its virtualization platform to meet the growing infrastructure demands of its customers, while delivering industry-leading performance and availability.

read more

Day Software Holding AG, a provider of open, standard-based content infrastructure and content management software, on Wednesday announced record revenue growth and strong operating results for the first half of 2010. In a separate announcement, Day Software also announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Adobe Systems for Adobe to launch a public tender offer to acquire all of the publicly held registered shares of Day Software for CHF139 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately CHF255 million on a fully diluted equity-value basis. More details regarding the transaction are available in the joint press release issued by Adobe and Day Software earlier today, which can be found at http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations. Day reported total revenues of CHF 25.1M, an increase of 47% from total revenue of CHF 17.0M for the first half of 2009. License revenue accounted for 49% of total revenue at CHF 12.4M, an increase of 71% from total license revenue of CHF 7.2M for the first half of 2009. Strong customer renewals drove CHF 7.1M in support and maintenance revenue, or 28% of total revenue, with services revenue totaling CHF 5.5M for the period. Day also reported net income of CHF 3.7M for a total profit margin of 15%. Total cash at the close of the first half of 2010 was CHF 27.2M, a 49% increase over 1H 2009.

read more

Adobe Systems Incorporated and Day Software Holding AG announced the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for Adobe to launch a public tender offer to acquire all of the publicly held registered shares of Day Software for CHF139 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately CHF255 million on a fully diluted equity-value basis. This approximates US$240 million at the current exchange rate. Adobe’s acquisition of Day will strengthen the company’s enterprise software solutions with market leading Web Content Management (WCM), Digital Asset Management and Social Collaboration offerings. This acquisition represents a significant market opportunity for Adobe to help organizations transform themselves by enabling them to create, manage, distribute and monetize content while optimizing the web experience for their customers.

read more

Lockheed Martin, the nation's largest defense contractor, has launched a new open-source project for enterprise social networking called Eureka Streams. The company is inviting developers to give the technology a whirl. - Lockheed Martin, the nation's largest defense contractor, has launched a new open-source project for enterprise social networking called Eureka Streams. The Eureka Streams technology, which looks and behaves much like existing commercial social networking software, is aimed at helping what Lock...

Compuware Workbench is a suite of development tools designed to ease the application development and maintenance burden faced by mainframe shops. - Compuware is looking to help ease the application development and maintenance burden mainframe shops face by delivering a new suite of intuitive development tools. The company's Compuware Workbench, announced July 20, is an Eclipse-based quot;development environment for managing mainframe appl...

After months of promising we have finally moved Exadel Flamingo to exadel.org and released version 2.2.0. exadel.org is our community site for hosting open source projects. Flamingo is a light weight framework for connecting rich web and mobile user interfaces to enterprise back end. Flamingo connects Seam, Spring, and Java EE 6 (soon via CDI/JSR299) with the following user interfaces.

read more

Exadel has released Exadel JavaFX Plug-in for Eclipse version 1.3.4. The biggest feature in this release is Organize Imports (just like in Java editor). The class for Text node is missing, pressing Ctrl+Shift+O, will display the dialog where the correct class can be selected. You can also invoke Organize Imports from the editor context menu (right-click anywhere in the editor and select Organize Imports). You can also invoke Organize Imports from the editor context menu (right-click [...]

read more

For the second year in a row, Evans Data has ranked Google and IBM as the top cloud computing environments for developers. Google was named best public cloud provider and IBM best at delivering a private cloud. - For the second year in a row, Evans Data has ranked Google and IBM as the top cloud computing environments for developers. Based on the results of a recent Evans Data survey of more than 400 software developers, Google stood out as the favorite public cloud platform and IBM as the preferred pri...

One of the most common questions for people that are new to BIRT is about how to ask data from the DataSet in the report.  The question is when building expressions should I use dataSetRow["FIELD"] or row["FIELD"]? So let me see if I can set the record straight. When data is acquired, it is acquired by a DataSet, so the following query in a JDBC DataSet will create a three field resultset.

read more

In what is believed to be a cloud first, Unisys is going to offer its upscale enterprise-class ClearPath users a fixed-priced PaaS cloud, a model that flies in the face of the nickel and dime’ing that goes on in commodity cloud land. Unisys already has x86-based commodity clouds on offer but now it’s drawn its proprietary mainframe-style ClearPath widgetry, based on its MCP and OS/2000 operating systems, into the new meme beginning with a managed development and testing solution that will go for $13,000 for three months use of a soup-to-nuts environment that includes 25MIPS, eight megs of memory and 75GB of storage.

read more

The first thing I do when creating a new project in Visual Studio (regardless of type) is change the project name, assembly name, and default namespace. I like for the names of all these to be consistent. However, I have noticed in Silverlight, you must make changes in five different places for everything to work alright otherwise you will get errors. I’m no Silverlight expert, but I thought this post would be useful for people like me who only dabble in it from time to time. When you create your new Silverlight project, right click on the project name and bring up its properties. Go ahead and change the default namespace and assembly name just like you would in any other project.

read more

The Symbian Foundation and Nitobi team up in an effort to make it easier for mobile application developers to create mobile apps for any device. - In a move to help make it easier for developers to create mobile applications for any device, the Symbian Foundation and Nitobi have joined forces. Symbian and Nitobi, quot;creators of the ground-breaking PhoneGap mobile application development framework, [July 21] announced an open-source ...

Data center administrators are faced with the challenge of what to do with in-house versus cloud services. Following two years of lean spending on IT infrastructure, the hype over cloud services has caught the attention of everyone – from the C-suite to the functional leadership in organizations as diverse as finance, marketing, logistics and operations. Providers like Salesforce.com are tailoring their message not to the IT department but to the CEO and CFO, promising cost savings, improved reliability and greater business agility. IT leaders are presented with concepts of “indoor” or “private” clouds. Over those same two years, existing data center equipment is ripe for replacement. Innovations in areas like virtualization, power optimization, and multi-core processors coupled with increasing maintenance expenses are providing an incentive for many enterprise organizations to increase IT budgets again. For other firms, aging infrastructure and increasing reliance on IT services is forcing a decision.

read more