Stories about: Segue Software

Borland Software on Tuesday will refresh the Silk application testing product line it acquired last year.

Borland Software's surprise decision to spin off, rather than sell, its tools business overshadowed the vendor's appointment of a new chief financial officer (CFO).

Borland Software unveiled quality management software Monday designed to eliminate software defects by tightly linking requirements to code as it is built and tested.

Borland Software is cutting staff by approximately 300 as part of an internal restructuring, the company said on Wednesday.

Borland Software's plan to abandon the development tool business to focus on its application life-cycle management (ALM) products found support among some users that are looking to manage software development as a process.

Borland Software plans to sell off its struggling Java development tools business to focus instead on selling services and products for managing software development, the company announced Wednesday.

It's a hard-core developer's worst nightmare: You pour your heart and soul into a new project, double-checking every .Net I-interface and cross-checking every T-SQL statement only to discover -- post-deployment -- that a hidden flaw is killing your program's scalability. Management is breathing down your neck and you've got that uneasy feeling that the outsourcing vultures are beginning to circle, but every line of code looks as perfect as when you first crafted it.

Compuware and Segue Software next week are bolstering their application management wares, with Compuware finding ways to boost performance without increasing a user's equipment expenses and Segue managing application quality.

PeopleSoft outlined at a Cebit press conference on Thursday its planned schedule of product updates for the next few months, highlighting new releases of its industry-focused EnterpriseOne suite and new functionality for its legacy World software.

Kevin Book, senior director of technology at The Motley Fool, can easily recall the days before he had adequate tools to monitor his company's popular financial Web site, which attracts more than 2 million visitors per month. "Our online store actually ran out of disk [space]," he says. "We were unable to write orders. You can imagine what the guys in ties were thinking when that happened."

I've spent 12 years working in the insurance industry and the past four years programming insurance applications in Micro Focus Cobol. My company was recently sold, and I want to get out of Cobol programming and intoWeb technologies and e-commerce. I have Java training but no experience. I have two job offers. One job involves working on the support team for Web application servers. This includes networking, TCP/IP, firewalls and security. I have good customer support skills, and the company is willing to train me. The second job involves doing system testing on a Web application. Java developers do the coding. Which is the better choice? - Premium Position Dear Premium: Testing is probably the weaker of these two choices, says Susan Cole, a recruiter at technology placement firm Donahue & Moore Associates Inc. in New York. While Web initiatives are hot at financial, brokerage and insurance companies, your second choice only involves testing Java applications using automated tools, and you wouldn't be getting any hands-on Java development experience.