Borland ALM survey finds heterogeneity
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(InfoWorld) - Borland Software surveyed its own customers to get a snapshot of the ALM (application lifecycle management) market and found heterogeneity rules in application development.Â  The company polled more than 300 customers in May and June. Sixty-nine percent of respondents said they support two or more development platforms, and 42 percent deploy to both Java and .Net. Half are using four or more ALM tools, and 33 percent have tools from more than three different vendors. Sixty-six percent of respondents use both open-source and commercial ALM tools. Meanwhile, 44 percent of respondents said they use two or more software development processes with agile methodologies and custom processes receiving the highest percentage of votes. "One of the reasons we're seeing folks actively move to the agile space is so they can be more responsive," said Marc Brown, Borland vice president of product marketing. But some user sites may not use agile processes if they have so many people trained on a particular process and gauge that change presents more risks than benefits, Brown said. According to the survey, the top priority in delivering software was meeting the needs of the business or customer with 59 percent selecting that priority. Some 25 percent ranked delivery of high-quality software as their top goal. Nearly 50 percent of respondents plan to implement process improvement initiatives as their biggest ALM projects for the coming year, Borland said. Integration of tools received 21 percent of the vote. The survey also found that organizations are challenged in effectively managing the end-to-end process of software delivery to achieve the full potential of ALM. Among the issues cited were disconnected processes, lack of visibility and traceability across the lifecycle, poor interoperability between tools, and lack of metrics and functional silos. Borland has re-focused the company from development tools to the ALM space with its Open ALM strategy that aims to accommodate existing software development assets in delivering software.
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The results from the latest poll conducted by the International PHP Magazine have been released. This time, they asked developers what they thought was the best way to do QA for their PHP applications.   Among the options were things like "Do API documentation", "Use code analyzers that check CS violations, XSS or SQL injection attacks" and the number one choice - "Do unit tests using PHPUnit or phpt". Three other options followed behind (using debugging tools, code analyzers and having a commit mailing list) with the API documentation falling down in last place.   They already started up this week's poll too. This time, they ask developers to vote on which of the options make for good PHP code. There's four options - structured, consistent, portable and secure. Get your vote in today!
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The newest version of Linux sports far fewer bugs than the average commercial code, a group of former Stanford University researchers said Tuesday.
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Sebastian Bergmann has posted the results of some benchmarking on the compilation he's done on the branches of PHP from version 3.0 all the way up to 5.3-CVS.   As people keep asking me for an update to my previous benchmarks (PHP / GCC / ICC Benchmark, PHP 5.1 / GCC Benchmark (Update), and PHP 5.1 Performance, I quickly ran a new benchmark today.   He rendered the results out into a series of charts defining the number of total seconds taken for the compile and how long each of the components took. It's impressive to see how much of a jump there was between the 3.0 series and 4.3.   He also includes his compile settings (and machine information) as well as the numbers for the results if you'd like to graph them out yourself.
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Alchemi is a software framework that allows you to painlessly aggregate the computing power of networked machines into a virtual supercomputer (computational grid) and to develop applications to run on enterprise grids.      We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.6. The major changes since 1.0.5 are a LUA (Least Privileged User Account) operation for both Manager, Executor in normal and service mode and an option for executing user's GThreads in a secure sandbox (experimental)  Please note that this is a developer release intended for enthusiasts and early adopters as documentation is not up to date.     Go here for downloading the files in this release:     http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=66729&package_id=186776&release_id=456163
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What is happening with carrier grade Linux and kernel contributions in this area?
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InfoWorld - Borland Software this week is rolling out an upgrade to its Together enterprise modeling tool for the Eclipse platform, featuring SOA capabilities.
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Chip power has increased dramatically in the last few years, thanks to new multicore processors from Intel, AMD and other chip makers. The problem is, software developers who understand how to utilize the new hardware are in short supply.
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PC Magazine - Alfresco&#39;s survey of 10,000 users finds Red Hat adoption tripling, while Novell usage stays stagnant.
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Borland has unveiled a software suite designed to help developers eliminate errors before their code can be checked in.
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Software publishers and users are at odds about software licensing, according a study released Monday.
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Will broad, long beta tests mean fast adoption? Others are doubtful.
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SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Borland with its Software Delivery Optimization (SDO) plan is looking to enable users to manage software projects like a business, Borlandâs Boz Elloy, senior vice president of software products, told attendees at the BorCon conference here on Monday.
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Delivering the capabilities of traditional EAI products within a light-footprint, standards-based infrastructure supporting incremental integration
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Matthew Turland has mentioned his article in the latest issue of php|architect magazine (the December 2007 issue) covering web scraping.   Just a quick post to announce (albeit a little late) that the December 2007 issue of php|architect, which includes my article on web scraping. Please buy a copy, give it a read, and feel free to post comments on the forum thread for the article. I'd love to hear some reader feedback!   Other articles in the issue include "Writing an Object/Relational Mapper in PHP", "Understanding CLI" and the cover story "Going native with mysqlnd".
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The software maker is moving along -- but not enough to get investors excited.
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As more software development companies find ways to simplify the application development process, Borland Software (Quote, Chart) is unveiling a new software delivery optimization (SDO) model built around that concept.