Will the U.S. Military's adoption of agile practices lead to ERP implementation success? This article explores the emerging trend of using agile practices in ERP implementations with a focus on the U.S. Military's recent announcement on November 3rd to abandon a waterfall approach and closed standards for its ERP system.
Windows Installer XML (WiX) 3.5 focuses on an updated version of Votive, the tool which allows developers to create WiX installers via the Visual Studio IDE. In addition to several bug fixes, WiX 3.5 improves to both Component Authoring and Major Upgrade functionality.
FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) is a non-interactive system to avoid the boring and repeating task of installing, customizing and managing Linux systems manually. FAI is used for maintaining chroot environments, virtual machines as well as physical boxes in setups ranging from a few single systems up to deployments of large-scale infrastructures and clusters with several thousands of systems.
The Debian project plans to release a new stable version of its universal operating system, Debian 6.0 (codenamed "Squeeze"), this year. As part of this release, the Debian installer team recently announced the first alpha release of the installer for Debian 6.0. One of the most notable changes to APT is that Squeeze installs packages from the "recommends" section by default.
Luis Lavena is working on an update to the Ruby installer for Windows, including a new Ruby binary built with a modern compiler. Benchmarks show Ruby 1.8.6 running more than twice as fast than previously. We talked to Luis Lavena about the new Ruby Installer.
Microsoft has made available the Web Platform Installer, aka Web PI, a tool used to install the entire Microsoft web platform including: IIS7, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition, .NET Framework.
Packaging, distributing and deploying an application can be a very difficult task. Add in the requirement to work on multiple platforms and it can quickly become a nightmare. IzPack aims to not only make it possible but to also make it simple.
