Development

Earlier this week, software and technology services firm Compuware Corp. announced version 3.1 of its OptimalJ development platform

Another company is raising doubts about the SCO Group Inc.'s (SCO) exclusive copyright ownership of Unix.

Magellan Technologies Inc. has developed what it claims to be a world-first in RFID (radio frequency identification) technology that allows many closely bunched tags to be uniquely identified without interference. The developer has taken the open source route using Linux-based readers and an open source application interface.

With the IT industry apparently recovered from the downturn of recent years, Intel Corp. will spend its Spring Intel Developer Forum (IDF) talking about what it considers technology's next era: increasing mobility, the digital home, and the "tera era" of large data sets and complex applications, executives said Monday.

Intel Corp. has added software development tools for its recently released Prescott processors to its software library as well as tools to help improve the performance of applications that use its hyperthreading technology, the company said Tuesday.

IBM Corp. officials said turnout for last week's inaugural EclipseCon 2004 exceeded expectations by drawing 634 paid attendees from 226 companies and 23 countries. And while that may reflect a broadening interest and, in some cases, outright enthusiasm from developers for the open-source Eclipse platform, tools and plug-ins that IBM created, there was little doubt which company was leading the way.

Many of Microsoft Corp.'s customers will get to pass judgment on its software maintenance plan this year when their current contracts come up for renewal. Some analysts see it as the biggest challenge yet for the much-critiqued Software Assurance (SA) program.

It may be too early to sound the outsourcing alarm bells. Experts seem to agree that as long as developers continue to push their skills to the limits, there will be a future for programmers in North America.