Its Stellent integration positions Oracle to take on IBM, and even Microsoft, in the enterprise content management space.
A number of companies released new products last week, supporting application development in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Here are some of those announcements to date.
Open CSA group unites to speed application development through SOA specs.
Partnerships in the software-as-a-service business shouldn't follow the well-trod enterprise software model, report says.
Software AG is expected to gain a strong 'foothold' in the North American SOA market with the acquisition.
Zend Technologies Ltd. collaborates with Microsoft to offer better PHP performance on Windows.
BEA Systems, Inc. unveiled a collection of integration tools this week aimed at easing adoption of service-oriented architectures. The integration portfolio strategy is on the heels of the company's ambitious SOA 360 platform announcement in September, which outlined the BEA microService architecture and its supporting WorkSpace 360 collaborative tooling environment, slated for release in 2007.
Customers can service-enable terminal-based applications and effectively transform them into full-fledged SOA assets.
Oracle's latest version of its SOA Suite offers substantial upgrades to the January 2006 release. The key enhancement, available now to developers in a preview, is integration of all components into a "cohesive" platform.
Almost a year ago, BEA Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Oracle Corp., SAP AG and four other vendors all put aside their respective differences—in public, anyway—to form an informal SOA advocacy alliance, Open SOA. Presumably, the alliance will offer the same terms to Microsoft Corp., which—not surprisingly—remains a prominent hold-out.
Last week Google launched an open-source project hosting service for professional software developers as part of its Google Code offerings.
A three-way collaboration has enabled FileMaker to roll out the first public beta preview of a new Application Programming Interface (API) for the popular PHP open-source scripting language.
Forrester Research characterizes the Office 2007 system as a “serious” app platform that offers enterprise developers another option for building customized Windows clients and collaboration applications.
Exhausted of their egghead stigma, the industry’s first wiki app company found a way to transform traditional wikis into fresh page types. And now the new-look wikis are compatible with Microsoft Office.
A slew of new SOA management functions are available through a new version of CentraSite, including a plug-in that lets developers ease into integration within Eclipse-based dev environments.
IBM released Lotus Notes for Linux, marking the first time IBM has supported biz-grade e-mail, group scheduling and other Notes apps on the open desktop system.
When IBM announced its SOA Business Catalog, it took pains to highlight a SOA-friendly kit to help developers integrate PHP application front-ends with WebSphere, but the reality is that customers can and will tap the kit in a huge variety of different scenarios.
IBM wants to make it easier for PHP developers to integrate their apps into a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and it's giving them the tools to do it—free. The soon-to-be-released PHP Integration Kit for WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition is designed to move PHP into the heart of IBM's core SOA infrastructure.
A new version of Mainsoft’s Visual MainWin for J2EE, Portal Edition provides end users with the ability to intermingle ASP.NET and Java apps within Web portals.
SOA Software and Parasoft are partnering to offer an integrated governance and testing suite for service-oriented architectures that will allow end users to combine Web services management and error refactoring for SOA and Web service-based apps.