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Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote "yes" on ISO standardizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format, the one in competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) pushed by IBM and Sun. Gates reportedly picked up the phone when the last INCITS ballot failed by one vote to support Microsoft. The only trouble with getting the US government involved in voting "aye" is that because of the way OOXML handles XML Scheme the government will have to break its own rules to use it. ... (more)

XML Schema: Extension and Restriction from a Mixed Complex Type Base Typ

I need to start and derive from following datatype. This is the default type. It permits text content only with optional xml:lang attribute. Text is allowed because mixed="true", but sub-elements are disallowed because minOccurs="0" and maxOccurs="0" are on the xs:any tag. This complexType allows for restriction or extension permitting child elements. This is fine for instance elements such as: abcdefg But in one case I need to have following model: 2008-12-12... (more)

Vordel Connects SOA to the Cloud

We at Vordel released Version 5.2 of our Gateway, which connects to Cloud Services. If you need to connect your systems to SalesForce.com, Amazon S3 or SQS or SimpleDB, or Microsoft or Yahoo! Web Services, with security and without writing code, then this is the product for you. Here's the release: San Diego, CA - July 29, 2009 - Vordel, the XML networking management company, today announced at the Burton Catalyst Conference the general availability of Vordel 5.2, its suite of application networking products. Vordel 5.2 enables enterprises to connect their applications to Cloud services such as Amazon Web Services, SalesForce.com, and Microsoft Azure. Vordel benefits enterprises by resolving the complexity of connecting SOA and Cloud-based services and providing a secure and transparent environment for this process. To successfully transition and adapt to a cloud en... (more)

How OpenKM's Technical Debt Decreased by 49% Through Code Refactoring

Technical Debt is worth nothing if no pragmatic action is taken into code, in order to control and tackle it. To ilustrate the Scertify's capability to automatically correct code defects that increase this unintended debt, we performed code refactoring on OpenKM, an Free/Libre document management system. The initial Technical Debt of the project has been reduced by 49.2% from 84 days to 42 days. Here, at Tocea, we call it the Debt Write-Off. For this first Debt Write-Off, we have decided to perform the refactoring of OpenKM (6.2.1-DEV). According to Wikipedia, OpenKM is a Free/Libre document management system that provides a web interface for managing arbitrary files. OpenKM is a great tool but an audit of the code revealed some technical debt problems. That was a good opportunity to use Scertify and to be useful to an open-source community. The application consist... (more)

Visiprise Announces Release of Visiprise Manufacturing 4.3

ATLANTA, March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Visiprise, Inc., a leader in integrated manufacturing operations solutions today announced the immediate availability of Visiprise Manufacturing 4.3. This release builds on the company's SAP integration utilizing xMII and further enhances the user experience with improved performance and new production XML messages. The release of Visiprise Manufacturing 4.3 completes the trilogy of product releases related to the Visiprise-SAP partnership. In January, Visiprise Manufacturing was named an SAP-endorsed business solution, and in February Visiprise announced Visiprise ERP Shop Floor Integration 1.0 packaged composite application achieved "SAP(R) xApps(TM) Certified - Powered by SAP NetWeaver(R)" status. Visiprise Manufacturing 4.3 supports master data imports from SAP to Visiprise. In addition, production orders based on planning and c... (more)

Vertafore Wins Four ACORD Awards

Industry leader receives recognition for implementation of standards and advancements in agent-carrier connectivity BOTHELL, Wash. and PEARL RIVER, N.Y., May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Vertafore, an industry leader in insurance agency automation and real-time connectivity for agents and insurance carriers, today announced that it received four ACORD Awards during the annual awards luncheon at the ACORD-LOMA Insurance Systems Forum, held on May 17 at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel in Orlando, Fla. Vertafore's products were honored with awards in both the Accomplishment and AUGIE Awards categories, as designated by the Pearl River, N.Y.-based standards body, ACORD. These awards highlight the contribution of Vertafore and its products to the insurance industry, and specifically recognize the company's commitment to improving how agents and carriers conduct business th... (more)

Breaking IFA 2009 News Distributed By Business Wire and Virtual Press Office Available

As official international news release distribution services for IFA 2009, Business Wire/Virtual Press Office will be posting exhibitor news releases and electronic press materials on a dedicated show news archive within the official show site. Media may contact the Business Wire Event Services Group at [email protected] with any questions pertaining to these news releases. As the recognized global leader in event news release distribution, Business Wire hosts news archives for hundreds of events worldwide at www.tradeshownews.com. In addition, Business Wire allows you to create free, custom Web, RSS, and email-based news feeds from hundreds of industry options, dozens of subject categories and thousands of geographic preferences as well as by specific company filters. In addition, subscribers have access to exclusive content to experts, company profiles, ... (more)

A10 Networks Announces EX Series 3.0 Upgrade for Bandwidth Management and Link Load Balancing Appliances

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- A10 Networks(TM), the technology leader in Application Delivery solutions, today announced an upgrade for its EX Series product family with version 3.0. The EX Series is a high performance appliance combining bandwidth management and quality of service (QoS), link load balancing, and network monitoring with granular application and user visibility. The EX Series helps organizations optimize and secure their networks by understanding network traffic at the application and user level, applying traffic policies to enforce network utilization, and increasing reliability through the use of application bandwidth prioritization and optimized use of multiple links. The EX Series can be quickly placed into a network without network changes to provide instant visibility into applications. "We had a pair of Packeteer PacketShaper... (more)

Assurance Wireless Provides Cell Phones and Wireless Service to Aid Missouri Residents Facing Economic Hardship

Today Assurance Wireless introduces services in Missouri, where it provides a wireless phone and 250 free voice minutes and 250 free text messages to eligible residents. Assurance Wireless is a Lifeline Assistance program supported by the federal Universal Service Fund and offers the best value in calling plans among major Lifeline Assistance programs.2 More than 195,0003 Missouri residents are without a job, and more than 234 percent are living below the federal poverty line. Assurance Wireless gives eligible customers the ability to provide a contact number and return calls to a prospective employer, which can help improve the chances of securing employment. According to a nationwide survey from Assurance Wireless5, adults with an income of less than $25,000 are as likely to use their mobile phone for employment searches as those with higher incomes. Data collecte... (more)

Drummond Group and ThreeSteps Pty Ltd Announce Joint Venture for Global Test Harness, ComplianceTest.net

Drummond Group Inc., a leader in global software testing, and ThreeSteps Pty Ltd, an Australian data integration firm, have teamed up to build a test harness, ComplianceTest.net, to initially support SuperStream, the Australian superannuation industry’s project. ComplianceTest.net is an online self-service tool created for organizations to test their products or services for compliance, in a neutral environment, to data exchange standards defined by standards-issuing authorities, beginning with XBRL rollovers and contributions for SuperStream. ComplianceTest.net launches for beta customers in June, providing a suite of test cases with a self-service test harness and discussion forum. The test harness will support: Fund and employer roles Tester-initiated and harness-initiated tests Positive and negative testing XBRL validation and complex business rule testing All A... (more)

The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem

In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010) being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem. I have increased it from the 'mere' 150 I identified back in January of this year, to 250, testimony – as if any were needed! – to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing. Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web sites of the companies themselves. Omissions to this Top 250 list should be sent to me via Twitter (twitter.com/jg21) and I will endeavor to include them in any future revision of this newly expanded rou... (more)

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There are many examples of disruption in consumer space – Uber disrupting the cab industry, Airbnb disrupting the hospitality industry and so on; but have you wondered who is disrupting support and operations? AISERA helps make businesses and customers successful by offering consumer-like user experience for support and operations. We have built the world’s first AI-driven IT / HR / Cloud / Customer Support and Operations solution.
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Darktrace is the world's leading AI company for cyber security. Created by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge, Darktrace's Enterprise Immune System is the first non-consumer application of machine learning to work at scale, across all network types, from physical, virtualized, and cloud, through to IoT and industrial control systems. Installed as a self-configuring cyber defense platform, Darktrace continuously learns what is ‘normal' for all devices and users, updating its understanding as the environment changes.