Perceptive Software announced its latest Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution, ImageNow Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Perceptive Software has a history of developing products and initiatives that complement Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environments, making it easy for in

The Yahoo! Board is supposed to convene today to thrash out whether or not to accept Microsoft's $44.6 billion acquisition offer, try to get Microsoft to sweeten the pot, or resist and hammer out an outsourcing deal with Google, according to TechCrunch. Based on what the blog (http://w

Software AG announced that it was recently recognized as a 'Market Leader' for the Application Infrastructure market by Current Analysis, a leading independent research firm. Software AG was also ranked as a 'Market Leader' in the research firm's accompanying analysis of the Service-Or

HCL announced two of its executives, Ramarao Kanneganti and Prasad A. Chodavarapu, have authored the book, SOA Security. Published by Manning Publications and immediately available in major bookstores and online retailers, or via the Manning Web site (htt p://www.manning.com/kanne ganti/

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is an architectural paradigm that aims to achieve loose coupling and reuse among software components. It's emerging as the main integration and architectural style in today's complex software infrastructure. Web Services aim to provide interoperabili

The OpenID Foundation (OIDF), formed in 2006 'to help promote, protect and enable the OpenID technologies and community,' yesterday announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined its board. Today there are over a quarter of a billion OpenIDs and well over 10,00

According to Yahoo!s developer site, ASTRA stands for 'ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications.' OK, I think I get it - or maybe not? So, I took a look at the components and examples on their website. What's up with these widgets? Why is Yahoo!, of all companies, doing this type of

Kevin Lynch's passion for Rich Internet Applications has won him promotion to CTO of Adobe, from SVP & Chief Software Architect. Adobe's CEO announced the promotion this week, saying: 'Kevin's insights and passion for rich Internet applications, and what they signify for the future of

Mobility Data Systems (MDS) announced that its Agile Data Integration Framework has been implemented by the Mobile Advertising Alliance. The data integration framework that underpins the new MAA platform has been provided by MDS. MDS is one of a new breed of systems integrators that ha

Crosscheck Networks announced the availability of SOAPSonar v.3.5. This release enables QA and Development teams to test and validate the most complex data structures that are being generated in the most demanding of the SOA deployments.

Camstar Systems announced the release of its eDHR Intelligence version 4.2 application for Medical Device manufacturers. It is an application on SAP's xMII platform to provide an out-of-the-box method for Medical Device manufacturers to measure performance of the manufacturing operatio

Key opinion-formers in the field of infrastructure and pioneers of virtualization technologies of all types have already begun submitting speaking proposals to Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 East, being held in New York City, 23-24 June, 2008. Topics covered will range from Serv

IBM and Avada Software announced a new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement to join forces to capture a larger piece of the growing open source application server market. Under the agreement, Avada Software will deliver and support WebSphere Application Server Community Edit

The SOA Consortium announced that Sun Microsystems has joined as a Sponsor. The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major government agencies, and mid-market businesses successfully adopt Servi

Software AG announced the availability of additional security enhancements for the service-oriented architectures (SOA) created or managed with the webMethods product suite. Under the terms of a new license agreement with Layer 7 Technologies (Layer 7), Software AG will now offer and s

Mitsubishi Electric Corp., IBM and ILS Technology LLC announced they are delivering a service oriented architecture (SOA) solution that is specifically designed for the automotive manufacturing industry. The three companies have developed a reference architecture that can help customer

Rogue Wave Software announced the release of Rogue Wave HydraSDO for XML 2.2 and the next edition of HydraSDO for Databases. Rogue Wave HydraSDO data components automate the creation of high performance, service-oriented data services in Java and C++. The components enable developers t

Burntsand announced the completion of a custom application built using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for a wireless communications operator. The contract, previously announced on April 16, 2007, was completed on-time and on-budget for the customer. The eight month project has f

Recursion Software announced the extension of its popular C++ Toolkit Suite to HP Integrity servers. The C++ Toolkits are portable, reusable class libraries for multi-threaded applications and are offered with complete source code. With library subsets for time, threading, streaming, n

Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97. This latest release provides an open platform for customers to choose hardware, operating systems and database technologies based on their unique IT strategies and business requirements. Relying

Last week we were copied in on an internal e-mail from a software company with a market cap in excess of five billion dollars. As I read through this long e-mail thread, which included references to our company, I couldn't help but reflect on the past. I forwarded this e-mail to their

The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) Alliance is working to realize the vision of a 'universal middleware' that will address issues such as application packaging, versioning, deployment, publication, and discovery. In this article we'll examine the need for the kind of container

Optaros announced its design and assembly of a new online shopping concept for Wonderbox, a leading international Internet and retail company that sells the 'Wonderbox', which is a themed gift box containing vouchers for 6000 experiences from which the recipient can choose. Optaros red

iTKO announced enhanced native support for enterprise IT monitoring frameworks within the latest release of their LISA 4 Testing & Validation solution. The new Advanced Test Execution capabilities of LISA allow IT teams to quickly generate events and transactions that appear on the mon

HP SOA Systinet is a complete solution for SOA governance and service lifecycle management, providing the visibility, trust and control necessary to ensure successful business outcomes for enterprise SOA initiatives. HP SOA Systinet accelerates SOA adoption and service reuse, while pro

The WSO2 WSAS 2.0 features data services to tap relational databases for mashups, Eclipse integration to let developers work directly in the IDE, and clustering available on a Web services server. WSAS 2.0 also allows Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) to be exposed as Web services, offers b

MomentumSI offers comprehensive training programs and workshops designed to meet the needs of enterprise IT organizations. Our curriculum focuses on Web services and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and spans a broad spectrum of roles within the IT organization. MomentumSI's course

DataDirect Shadow is a mainframe middleware software to provide a single unified, foundation architecture to simplify and accelerate the integration of mainframe data, business logic and screens with new Java, .NET and Web applications. From a single platform, Shadow supports a full ra

IntelR XML Software Suite is a comprehensive suite of high-performance C++ and Java software-based runtime libraries for Linux and Windows operating systems. It is standards compliant, to allow for easy integration into existing XML environments and is optimized to support complex and

Fiorano SOA is a SOA platform for real-time business built on a standards-based Enterprise Service Bus, enabling the effective coordination and interaction of software assets across the extended enterprise. Fiorano SOA allows companies to draw on existing business logic and processes r

iTKO exists to mitigate the business risks of increasing IT change and complexity. iTKO's LISA SOA Testing and Validation solution provides Complete, Collaborative, and Continuous software quality for the entire development and delivery team. In a single test environment, iTKO LISA pro

Vitria Technology has announced a Web 2.0 BPM suite that enables business users to model, manage, monitor, and optimize their business processes - Vitria's M3O. Business analysts can model and execute business processes in a Web-based environment in direct collaboration with their IT c

'Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft...to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet?' That's the question raised today in a statement just posted by Google on the Official Google Blog concerning Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! - posted by David

'Google has amassed about 75 percent of paid search revenues worldwide and its share continues to grow. ...Microsoft and Yahoo! on the other hand have roughly 30 percent combined in the U.S. and approximately 10 percent combined in Europe.' That, in brief, was the reply Microsoft's Gen

Blaming slowing growth on lower network spending in Europe and North America, Ericsson Chief Executive Officer Carl-Henric Svanberg yesterday said the company will cut as many as 4,000 jobs globally, including 1,000 in its native Sweden. Additionally Svanberg, who became CEO in April 2

Mindreef provides integrated software solutions that help organizations ensure trust, confidence and agility in their quality-driven SOA deployments. Mindreef SOAPscope Server is a solution for testing and verifying the quality, performance and policy compliance of service-oriented arc

Arcturus released Applicare 3.5, a significant upgrade to its powerful artificial intelligence based Application Performance Management suite. Applicare 3.5 adds many exciting new features including user extendable knowledge base, pluggable knowledge modules 'Knoms' framework (patent p

A new report attempts to add clarity to a fundamental problem confronting the industry: how does deployment of distributed composite applications and services affect the network, and what can we do to ensure adequate performance? The report, published by Research & Markets, examines th

'With RESERVOIR, our aim is to provide cloud-computing-based technologies that will enable the borderless delivery of IT services based on actual demands to keep costs competitive,' said Dr. Yaron Wolfsthal, senior manager of System Technologies at the IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel

Because the role of IT organizations is to enable business managers to run their businesses better, there has been a constant need for aligning IT closer to business. We often hear business managers complain that a software solution isn't what the business needed. We have personal expe