--(www.USEquityNews.com)-- 12/13/2007 - Application software industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. Pacific WebWorks, Inc. (OTCBB: PWEB) commented recently on its international marketing efforts. As part of the company's online marketing strategies, it has increased its emphasis on international markets. PWEB has acquired new customers in sixteen (16) countries with the highest concentrations in Canada, Great Britain and Australia. These international customers are the result of the company's new marketing initiatives and partnerships with several global marketing firms.
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) recently delivered a holiday surprise for customers and partners, unveiling a public beta for its hypervisor-based server virtualization technology called Hyper-V, a feature with some versions of Windows Server 2008. Customers and partners can download Windows Server 2008 RC1 Enterprise with the beta version of Hyper-V to evaluate the new technology, test applications and plan future consolidation, business continuity and high-availability projects. The beta was previously expected to be ready in the first quarter of 2008 with the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Server 2008.
Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) recently announced that the E-3A department of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), with its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, plans to adopt Adobe(R) Flex(TM) software and Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES for its new Mission Support System (MSS). The system will help improve NATO's operational readiness, by reducing the time to prepare for missions, and improve the delivery of information to flight crew members. Adobe Flex technology is an open source development framework for fast, end-to-end development of rich Internet applications (RIA) that run identically on all major browsers and operating systems.
A survey released recently by Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) and the Ponemon Institute showed an overwhelming majority of organizations surveyed risk compromising critical information by using actual customer data for the development and testing of applications. The Insecurity of Test Data: The Unseen Crisis report found that 62 percent of companies surveyed use actual customer data instead of disguised data to test applications during the development process. Of those companies using actual customer data, 89 percent use customer files and 74 percent use customer lists.
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