IBM courts collaboration developers
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InfoWorld - Next week at its annual Lotusphere conference, IBM will extend its collaboration vision with an increased focus on tools.
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IBM IS to share the designs of its blade servers in a bid to boost their popularity among developers. It follows moves to open up the companyâs microprocessor business and give partners more access to its
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(InfoWorld) - Seeking to assist software developers coping with many languages, IBM plans to offer its Safari technology to the Eclipse open source community, an IBM official said at the EclipseCon 2007 conference on Thursday. IBM describes Safari as an Eclipse-based metatooling framework intended to speed the building of sophisticated development environments, or IDEs, for new or existing programming languages. The project is moving toward becoming an open source Eclipse technology project. The basic idea is to incubate the technology and start to build a community around it, said Robert Fuhrer, an IBM research staff member involved in Safari. Developers these days must deal with multiple languages and technologies, and Safari is intended to make that easier. IBM has languages being designed that already represent mixes and interactions between technologies such as Java and SQL, Fuhrer said. "These are problems that real developers face today and we need to play catch-up and get the right kind of tooling support for those kinds of scenarios," Fuhrer said. "The reality of software development at this point is lots and lots of developers are faced with mixes of languages in lots of different varieties, particularly in a Web platform," Fuhrer said. Safari supports features such as parser management, syntax highlighting, and re-factoring. Static program analysis and debugging also are goals. The project offers language service-creation wizards, class libraries, and "code skeletons" to get a language service-implementer started. IBM's Web site on Safari said the effort has been driven in part by the need to build full-featured IDEs for language research activities at the company. One activity to benefit from Safari is the development of a JavaScript IDE, taking place at IBM's Tokyo Research Lab. Other IBM research projects impacted include X10, which is a Java-derived language; XJ, featuring XML access and Java, and the JikesPG grammar language specification. Accommodating multiple languages within Eclipse was the subject of panel session at the conference on Thursday. Safari was noted during the session, as well as the reality that Eclipse has grown beyond its origin as a platform for Java development. Doug Schaefer, a senior software developer at QNX Software Systems and the moderator of the session, said: "It's gotten pretty clear that Eclipse isn't just Java anymore."
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IBM has handed over speech technology to two open-source groups to boost development of speech-recognition applications, which proponents say will eventually become common in customer-service call centers, automobiles and elsewhere.
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IBM announced Monday a set of offerings from its Virtual Innovation Center for Hardware, including &quot;how-to&quot; guides and a solution sizing toolkit, all aimed at helping the company&#39;s business partners build and deploy applications on IBM technology.
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Company looks to juice its application server business with a version tuned for smaller organizations.
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IBM is expanding its resources to help application software companies generate leads and close sales.
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IBM has unveiled, under its Workplace platform strategy, an online developer resource centre that will give corporate and third-party developers access to tools to help develop products and services for the platform.
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InfoWorld - IBM&#39;s move to develop its own suite of productivity applications to compete with Microsoft&#39;s Office software is part of a larger war the two companies are waging in the market for employee collaboration applications.
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IBM is hoping to provide commercial-level technical support to developers building applications using Eclipse open-source tools.
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Microsoft, IBM and Borland are upgrading their software and offering users new workflow features, support for multiple languages and tools to manage the lifecycle of in-house applications.
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The new initiative will automate and simplify the process for independent software vendors to become IBM business partners, according to a statement.
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OCTOBER 13, 2004  - Borland Software Corp. and IBM announced upgrades to their development tools this week designed to support heterogeneous environments and more closely link software creation to business goals.
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Hoping to add some momentum to its Workplace platform strategy IBM has launched an online developer resource center that gives software developers ready access to tools to help create products and services that will exploit the platform.
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Way to go Leaving aside the arm-wrestling practice IBM's legal department is currently getting with Platform Solutions Inc (PSI) and its ability to run IBM mainframe applications on any reasonably spec'd Itanium-based server, the availability of such software tools marks a development that could interest developers.â¦
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OCTOBER 18, 2004  - IBM and Borland Software Corp. last week separately brought out upgrades to their development tool lines that executives said add support for heterogeneous environments and
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Executives at IBM's Rational Software unit outlined plans to add Web 2.0 and collaboration technologies to its line of development tools.