It has been a busy 2 weeks for Oracle, which completed its acquisition of Siebel, announced Release 3 of its Application Server 10g and JDeveloper 10g tools, announced two new acquisitions and disclosed plans to divest itself of Siebel's OnTarget business unit, a sales training and methodology consultancy.
The business intelligence powers that be-platform players such as Business Objects, Cognos, SAS and others-are all agog over the all-in-one platform. And they'd like you to be just as enthusiastic, too.
Borland's merger announcement with Segue Software on February 8 included the news that Borland plans to exit the tools business.
Software & Support Media, owner of several technology magazines and related events, is presenting JAX Innovation Awards for “outstanding” European contributions in Java and Eclipse.
Howard Lewis Shipp, developer of Jakarta Tapestry and Jakarta HiveMind, writes in his Tapestry and HiveMind blog [http://howardlewisship.com/blog/2006/02/tapestry-promoted-to-apache-top-level.html] this week that the Apache Board unanimously voted to promote the Tapestry project to the top level.
Rackspace Managed Hosting and JBoss said on Tuesday they have made an agreement to create Intensive Hosting for Linux-JBoss Edition.
IBM is aligning its software and consulting arms to address an emerging business opportunity. The plan is to help companies-driven by globalization, mergers and acquisitions, and regulatory compliance-to master their growing data and information management issues.
Software AG has introduced next-gen versions of its Adabas transactional database and Natural development platform.
Microsoft has announced the lineup of its 2007 Microsoft Office system products, previously code-named Office “12.” They include new and improved suites, apps, servers and services. General availability is expected by the end of year.
SAND Technology has upgraded its data archiving and analytics technology, repackaged it and gained certification for SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence.
webMethods has taken the wraps off webMethods Access, a new component of webMethods Fabric, which is designed to give enterprises a framework for the rapid assembly of new processes from existing apps and Web services.
Altova said earlier this week that it has come up with a new approach to accelerating the creation of reliable Web services.
According to Gartner, worldwide BI software license revenues should reach $2.5 billion this year-a 6-percent increase from 2005.
rPath is rolling out its rBuilder platform for building Linux software appliances.
Microsoft announced the beta availability of its three MS Office Live services. Previewed last fall, Office Live combines the power of software and services for small companies that want a presence online.
BI vendors say there's been little demand for versions of their software designed to run on Linux or other open-source operating systems. That could change this year, says Mark Madsen, a consultant, who notes there are quite a few open-source BI projects of note.
Yesterday, Sun Microsystems released its beta Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6).
Given Borland's announcement of its intent to exit the development tools business, REAL Software announced that Borland Delphi users can receive a free license for REALbasic 2006 for Windows Standard Edition through February 28, 2006.
nVision Software released yesterday an enterprise continuous-availability app called AppVision-CA.
BearingPoint announced an agreement with Google to offer enterprise search solutions.