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Pentaho released an update to its open-source business intelligence software that makes it a more viable option for corporate users, industry analysts said.

Tim Berners-Lee has been talking about the next World Wide Web almost since the first World Wide Web, which he's credited with inventing, took off. Indeed, Berners-Lee first articulated his vision for a next generation Web in 1998, when he called for a standards-based system for tying together all the different kinds of information that companies and consumers now wrestle with. "Semantic Web" is the term he came up with to describe what the next version of the Internet will look like. It's not great branding, as Berners-Lee, himself, has admitted, and some folks have just slapped the label "Web 3.0" on the whole endeavour.

Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is an approach to translating real-world algorithms into computer code. It focuses on representing algorithms in a modelling language, followed by a possibly automatic translation of the models into computer code. Doing justice to the definition of MDA's innovation requires a short, potted history of computers.

In a bid to establish international e-health standards across the globe, the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) has just completed a month-long program of consultation with industry leaders from the US, UK and Canada.

A report released early this month by a task force within the Object Management Group outlines the standards needed to develop a consistent process for verifying the security of software sold to government agencies.

IBM Wednesday along with a host of other companies proposed the creation of a set of common practices and methods for developing software within the open-source Eclipse Foundation.

Borland Software on Monday upgraded its Together modeling suite for Microsoft Visual Studio .Net development. The suite now includes UML 2.0 capabilities.

Former Novell executive Chris Stone has been named CEO and president of StreamServe, a business communications management vendor.

The Object Management Group (OMG) is in the process of voting on whether to approve Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0, the latest version of this specification for model-driven development. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill talked about the subject with Brian Selic, IBM Distinguished Engineer and co-chairman of the OMG task force on UML 2.0.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has completed work on a set of technical specifications that define how scripting programs interact with Web pages. The development marks an important step toward interoperability on the Web and is a sign of the Web's growing maturity, according to an industry analyst.

The deputy CIO at a major aerospace company had worked hard to get her company into software reuse. She hired reuse librarians, trained developers in reuse and object-oriented methods, and overhauled the company's software development methodology. Her goal was to have 60 percent of the code in new systems come from a library of reusable components within 12 months. But at the end of that time, the figure stood at just 6 percent.