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Java Tools: the Next Battleground Ides Seen As Way to Lure Developers by YVONNE L Java Tools: The Next Battleground IDEs seen as way to lure developers BY YVONNE L. LEE services product management, MAY 15, 2004 Five months after the Java said his company is “coming on ISSUE NO. 102 CA’S DEVELOPMENT TOOLS TO Community Process approved strong, too.” version 1.4 of the Java 2 Enter- In fact, while 40 percent and ITAA Says Offshoring Good prise Edition specification, Sun 35 percent of respondents in a For U.S. Economy, Workers . .5 COME UNDER ALLFUSION BRAND Microsystems Inc. held a “kick- November 2003 BZ Research Embarcadero Adds Executive shakeup won’t affect product line off” event to highlight commu- study said they used IBM Corp.’s Collaboration, Architecture BY DAVID RUBINSTEIN analyst who now is CA’s director nity support for the new spec. It WebSphere or BEA’s WebLogic, Features to Data Modeler . .5 The recent corporate shakeup of business strategy for the life- also pointed out the next Java respectively, another 31 percent SlickEdit Makes at Computer Associates Inter- cycle management business battleground: tools. said they used Oracle’s applica- Refactoring Reality national Inc. will not affect the unit, said those development “The runtime wars are over,” tion server. Multiple responses For C++ Programmers . .6 company’s long-term strategy tools that are going to be said BEA Systems Inc. deputy were permitted. BZ Research is regarding its development advanced will carry the AllFu- CTO Benjamin Renaud, dis- a subsidiary of BZ Media LLC, IBM Shifting tools, as it plans to announce sion brand, while those that missing the competitive history publisher of SD Times. Toward SOA . .8 a consolidation of those tools only will be supported for exist- of J2EE app servers. “It’s IBM But as application servers WebSphere Studio under the AllFusion brand at ing customers will not. He and BEA. So, tools is where a lot have become more commodi- Gets Faces Lift . 8 the upcoming CA World user would not list which products of the innovation is.” tized in the larger J2EE stacks Start-Up Agitar Aims conference in Las Vegas. will not be advanced. But Rob Clark, director of these large vendors offer, tools To Ease Developer Questions arose about the An accounting scandal Oracle Corp.’s J2EE and Web > continued on page 17 Agitation Over Testing . .10 future of the developer prod- brought down former CEO Snapbridge Snaps Out ucts when recent interviews Sanjay Kumar, who was re- XML IDE, Server . 11 from newly appointed high- placed last month on an interim ranking officials spotlighted the basis by former Vivendi Uni- Elementool’s Bug Tracking Unicenter, BrightStor and versal Games CEO and CMP Adds Unlimited Fields . .12 eTrust brands but made no Media LLC president of pub- RadView’s TestView mention of the developer tools. lishing Kenneth Cron. Kumar Combines Performance John Meyer, the former will remain at CA as chief soft- and Load Tests . .12 Giga and Forrester Research ware architect. ❚ Start-Up N8 Systems Believes a Thousand Words Demand a Picture . .13 TeamTrack for ChangeMan The Selling of Sarbanes-Oxley The Best ZMF Missing Unix Link . .15 Vendor hype aside, it’s not a new tool category Uniface Now Can Of the Best Consume Web Services . .15 BY JENNIFER DEJONG Chuck Ames, CEO of InstallShield X The Sarbanes-Oxley act The precise business process manage- Merges DevStudio, doesn’t say a word about impact on ment software company MultiPlatform Tools . .16 software, but a growing developers of Oak Grove Systems Inc., number of vendors are in Calabasas, Calif. Sonic’s Claims For hoping the legislation will the complex Given the complexity, SonicMQ 6 Go Boom . .21 help them sell more of it. legislation is there is no such thing as a ICEsoft Spun Out Of Using terms such as single tool that enables a Michael Oxley, left, not yet clear. Wind River’s Tornado . .23 “Sarbanes-Oxley accelera- and Paul Sarbanes. company to comply with Birdstep Aligns RDM tor,” they are bombarding SD Times photo illustration the bill, said Patrick J. Mobile With Embedded . .23 developers with pitches for Hagerty, a vice president at McGartland, vice president of software that will help public AMR Research Inc., in Boston. business development at Meri- Metrowerks Tools To companies comply with the law, “In an environment of fear, dio Inc., a Chicago company Play Host to Linux . 23 enacted in the wake of high- uncertainty and doubt, vendors that sells document and records A BZ MEDIA PUBLICATION $7.95 profile accounting scandals. are saying, ‘Use my software.’ ” management software. “There is a whole lot of market- For developers, that message Product offerings fall into www.sdtimes.com ing going on here,” said John is confusing at best. Because two categories: document and Sarbanes-Oxley, formally known records management; and busi- as the U.S. Public Company ness process management Accounting Reform and (BPM). Both types of software Investor Protection Act of 2002, are being used to help compa- is a complex piece of legislation nies comply with the bill co- broadly aimed at preventing cor- authored by Sen. Paul Sar- porate fraud, its precise impact banes, D-Md., and Rep. is not yet clear. “There’s a mad Michael Oxley, R-Ohio. page 25 scramble to figure that out,” said > continued on page 21 www.sdtimes.com Software Development Times May 15, 2004 NEWS 5 ITAA Says Offshoring Good for U.S. Economy, Workers BY JENNIFER DEJONG conducted by Waltham, Mass.- ment in new IT projects and The worldwide sourcing of com- based economic research firm services and creating new jobs. THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY puter software and services actu- Global Insight Inc., “The “The U.S. IT work force will ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ally will increase the number of Impact of Offshore IT Soft- continue to grow,” said ITAA U.S. jobs, improve real wages for ware and Services Outsourcing president Harris Miller. But What It Is: The ITAA is an Arlington, Va.-based, member-funded American workers and benefit on the U.S. Economy and the some of the study’s own data trade association that promotes the interests of the U.S. infor- the U.S. economy overall, IT Industry” determined that appears to contradict Global mation technology industry. according to a study by the Infor- from 2003 to 2008, total sav- Insight’s conclusion that off- Members: Over 400, including Adobe Systems Inc., Amazon.com, mation Technology Association ings from the use of offshore shoring benefits U.S. IT work- Computer Associates International Inc., Dell Inc., eBay Inc., IBM of America (ITAA), a trade asso- resources are estimated to ers. For instance, the study Corp., Intel Corp., Macromedia Inc., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., ciation based in Arlington, Va. grow from US$6.7 billion to found that in the software and PeopleSoft Inc., Sanctum Inc. and SAP America. Funded by the ITAA and $20.9 billion, spurring invest- services area, the economy will Current Initiatives: Evaluating the impact of the Health Informa- create 516,000 jobs over the INTERNATIONAL OUTSOURCING: tion Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) on IT companies, next five years in an environ- promoting benefits of wireless data and voice technologies for HOW IT WILL HELP THE ECONOMY ment with global sourcing, but federal organizations, and prohibiting state and local taxing juris- only 490,000 without it. But of dictions from taxing Internet access services or goods and ser- Spending for global sourcing of computer software and services these 516,000 new jobs, 272,000 vices sold online. Source: www.itaa.org is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of almost 26 per- will go offshore and only cent, from US$10 billion in 2003 to $31 billion in 2008. 244,000 will remain onshore. Asked to clarify the apparent business investment, more During the same period, total savings from the use of offshore The study, released at the end contradiction, ITAA senior vice exports, more jobs, and higher resources are estimated to grow from $6.7 billion to $20.9 billion, of March, cites those numbers as president Bob Cohen did not. real wages—than in an environ- driving investment in new IT projects. evidence that global sourcing He said in a statement: “The ment without offshore IT soft- The benefits of global sourcing contribute significantly to real will create more U.S. IT jobs. study shows that off-shore IT ware and services outsourcing.” gross domestic product (GDP) in the United States, adding $33.6 But given that all 490,000 jobs software and services outsourc- According to an April 12 arti- billion in 2003. By 2008, real GDP is expected to be $124.2 billion created without global sourcing ing yields benefits to the U.S. cle in The Wall Street Journal, higher than it would be in an environment in which offshore IT would be in the U.S., the net economy—lower costs, higher the statistics available on global software and services outsourcing does not occur. gain for the U.S. appears to productivity, lower inflation, outsourcing are sketchy. The Source: Information Technology Association of America be greater without offshoring. more consumer spending, more > continued on page 14 been included to help archi- tects redefine database designs Embarking on a Trip Into the Enterprise and ensure those modifications Embarcadero revs data modeler with collaboration, architecture features make their way back into the corporate data stores. BY DAVID RUBINSTEIN enterprise modeling solutions. most used and automates the how to model data warehouses The changes to E/R Reposi- There is data, and then there is Keller said one of four key creation of binds and associa- with rich rules within an organi- tory are in its data dictionary DATA.
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