The News Review:
- Agile Software Development: Bridges to the Future
- Software tracks interplay of Parkinson’s drugs
- Software product development moving beyond financial domains
- Recording the Linux desktop — the hard way
- RP still generates interest in software
- Teledyne acquires maker of aircraft-data software
Agile Software Development: Bridges to the Future
BusinessWeek
It’s frustrating to those of us who have to navigate the construction zone but multiyear delays in a bridge project are not otherwise a problem because the fundamental constraints on bridge-building don’t change much in that span of time. The river isn’t going to get any wider the structural strength of concrete isn’t going to decrease and the force of gravity isn’t going to change. Software engineering particularly in Web development does not enjoy the same kind of stability. Processors get faster hard drives get bigger bandwidth increases operating systems and programming languages evolve. These technical changes and the deliberate efforts of smart people all over the world rapidly change the expectations of customers. In 2002 when the Wakota Bridge construction started Wikipedia had 48000 articles and you probably hadn’t heard of it. Today it has more than 2.
Software tracks interplay of Parkinson’s drugs
Monsters and Critics.com
New software can help patients keep track of how the drugs interact. monstersandcritics.
Software product development moving beyond financial domains
Hindu India
Excerpts from the interview. What do you see the major growth areas of product development in the near to mid-term? There is growing recognition for India as the global hub for product R&D (research and development) activity especially in the technology industry. According to a NASSCM report Indian software product business is expected to see disruptive growth during the next decade from $1. 4 billion in FY2008 to $12 billion by FY2015. f the existing 371 software product start-ups since 2001 over two-thirds were formed in the last 3 years. Hence while the top 10 companies still dominate there are over 200 mid-sized companies and start-ups that have begun generating revenues and are contributing to the growth of Indian software product business. From a domain perspective software product development which was primarily focused on financial and accounting domains has now moved to offerings in the area of health care business intelligence (BI) engineering security content and collaboration tools.
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Recording the Linux desktop — the hard way
Computerworld MA
h boy is it ever not one of them. My first problem was that I’d never done screen video recording before on any platform. I’d heard about Windows screen recorders such as TechSmith’s.
RP still generates interest in software
Inquirer.net Philippines
“We expect the industry to still grow next year but in terms of overall growth our approach is cautious optimism meaning we will wait and see” said Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) president Beng Coronel. PSIA represents some 130 local software firms most of which are engaged in software-related services for foreign-based clients. “Software is a critical component of any company’s operations and relatively it is not that much affected by global recession” pointed out Coronel during an interview with INQUIRER. As companies abroad cut costs Coronel expects more demand for services provided by local firms. “Right now we are seeing a shift in more application and maintenance work being outsourced” she said.
Teledyne acquires maker of aircraft-data software
Forbes NY
said Friday it acquired the assets of Demo Systems LLC which makes aircraft-data software. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.