State of Agile Development Survey
Published September 11th, 2009 Under News | Leave a Comment
Time is running out to make sure your experiences implementing and scaling agile are part of this year’s survey results. Remember, this is not a vendor survey, it is a survey to gauge the overall state of agile adoption in the software development community.
Please take part in this survey and get the chance to win 1 of 3 participation prizes from Amazon.com totaling $1,250.00 and have the aggregated results emailed directly to you. As always, your individual responses are completely anonymous.
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SpringSource Acquired by VMware for $420 Million
Published August 14th, 2009 Under News | Leave a Comment
August 10, VMware announced a definitive agreement to acquire SpringSource. VMware and SpringSource plan to deliver compelling new solutions that enable companies to more efficiently build, run and manage applications within both internal and external cloud architectures. Read more
A (Mostly) Agile Java Day at Jazoon
Published June 26th, 2009 Under Conferences, Methods & Tools, News, Software Development | 3 Comments
Methods & Tools is the sponsor of a large number of software development conferences, but I cannot find the time and budget to visit them. This year I managed to find some time after the publication of my summer issue to visit Wednesday the Jazoon, an important Java event located in Zurich. Besides the global morning keynote, the conference has five parallel tracks, so the first thing in the morning is to make your choice between 30 presentations. This is easier for me, because I am not a Java specialist and so I focused on talks with content that could reach outside the Java community. Read more
Another Suitor for Borland?
Published June 11th, 2009 Under News, Software Development | Leave a Comment
According to Reuters, Micro Focus, which agreed in May to buy Borland, said on Monday that Borland had received a preliminary non-binding indication of interest from an unnamed financial buyer. The price offered would be $ 1.20 versus the $ 1 offered by Micro Focus. If the transaction is not approved by the shareholders, Borland would have to Micro Focus $3 million.
Borland entered a nondisclosure agreement with the new suitor and it has granted it access to its accounting books. Among the possible buyer, the name of Embarcadero and Oracle are mentioned. Embarcadero already bought last year the CodeGear division and might be interested for some new tools that will complete its current offer… for cheap. Oracle, who just bought Sun, could seize the occasion to create a more complete offer of software development tools around Java. JDeveloper, the Java IDE from Oracle, was originally build around the JBuilder technology from Borland.
More than 1000 items in the Software Development Links Directory
Published May 18th, 2009 Under Links, Methods & Tools, News, Software Development | Leave a Comment
The Software Development Links Directory has now more than 1000 items listed. SoftDevLinks.com is a new general directory for software developers, testers and managers. If you have a blog, a web site, distribute a tool or work a consulting company related to software development, do not hesitate to add one or more (free) link(s) in this directory. Get enhanced visibility with reciprocal links.
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