By Archie Roboostoff, director of the Borland Portfolio, Micro Focus
The 2012 presidential election brings an enormous amount of uncertainty: Who should I vote for? What are the primary issues that concern me? Which sweater vest will Rick Santorum wear next?
Yes, those questions are definitely hot topics in the race for the White House, but an [...]
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Java, Objective-C, Python, Ruby, COBOL, PL/I, etc., etc., etc – there are enough language choices out there today to make an application developer’s head spin. What is truly the best option for enterprise business applications?
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2012: what opportunities and challenges will the New Year bring for IT?
Posted on 11. Jan, 2012 by Micro Focus.
2011 was certainly a dynamic and challenging year for businesses and their IT departments. The rapid uptake of cloud computing solutions by many enterprises significantly altered the way that we think about and do business. Similarly the explosion in mobile technology, including smartphone and tablet usage, revolutionized the way that information and data is consumed [...]
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In this quick video post, Micro Focus’ Ed Airey takes a look forward at 2012 and shares this thoughts about what the year has in store for IT in the business setting. Above all, Ed predicts that with companies still battling economic pressures, many organizations will be forced to take a new approach to project [...]
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So, farewell 2011. How was it for you? Austerity seemed to be the watchword. Continued economic turmoil on a global scale, monetary crisis in Europe, upheaval across the Middle East, uncertain political future in the US, continued volatility in financial markets: no wonder organizations face major operating challenges.
Expenditure controls, especially for major non-critical projects, have [...]
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In two short clips, Micro Focus’ Ed Airey discusses the existence of the IT skills gap and how it can be bridged in the years to come.
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New release unifies ALM environments and incorporates Tasktop Dev and TaskTop Sync Borland connectors.
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Micro Focus Borland’s new partnership with Tasktop shared the limelight, and dessert, at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit in Las Vegas.
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The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from.
Posted on 12. Dec, 2011 by Micro Focus.
With 50 years of history and counting, COBOL is of course pervasive. But the number of lines of COBOL code isn’t the only big thing about COBOL. The language itself is vast and there are several dialects each with its own vocabulary and semantic behavior.
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The mainframe has historically been the natural choice to run mission-critical business applications for the enterprise. While developments in processor technology mean that Linux®, UNIX® and Windows Servers® have long been able to deliver mainframe performance at a fraction of the cost, as well as offering a more flexible environment to respond to business change, [...]
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Launching soon: Borland StarTeam 12.0
Earlier today Micro Focus announced the general availability of the Borland Connector for Tasktop. At the same time we announced the forthcoming availability of StarTeam 12.0. The latest version of our robust, highly-scalable change and configuration management platform will be available in December. This is exciting news for developers, who can [...]
