Steven Hutchison, test and evaluation executive for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), one of the world’s largest testing operations, in an article on NetworkWorld says that his biggest piece of advice for corporate CIOs is to get security testing experts involved at the earliest possible stage of software development.

Micro Focus International plc has acquired Borland and Compuware Testing and Automated Software Quality (ASQ) Business.

In a development set to have a major impact on software development as we know it, Oracle has bought Sun Microsystems.

Forrester has released a report titled “Open Source Software Goes Mainstream.” The report is based on responses from over 1,100 software development decision makers in North American and European enterprises and SMBs.

Two of the most respected names in the Indian software industry answer queries on the trends in software development and the IT industry in India. Dr Ganesh Natarajan (Chairman of Nasscom, CEO of Zensar) & Dr. Anand Deshpande (Founderof Persistent Systems) answer queries on topics like developer skill enhancement, cloud computing, software product development and how acceptance of mediocrity is hurting India’s growth prospects.

While there are many rumours and a dozen different theories, there’s little actual information about the impact of this crisis on the business of software development. Analysts have provided some estimates about what the impact would be, however only insiders to the business can get a real understanding of what’s changed. This survey is an attempt to gauge sentiment of the insiders (the developers, architects and managers) to the software business and know what they think about the slowdown and its impact.

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