BEA said on Tuesday that its JRockit Java Virtual Machine hit a SPECjbb2000 benchmark result of 861,647 operations per second, apparently a new record, according to the company.
Apache Maven 2.0 and Continuum 1.0, the fastest-growing build system for Java-based projects, are now generally available, according to the Apache Software Foundation.
LiveTime Software, a provider of service management software built on Java 2 Enterprise Edition, has announced the general availability of the LiveTime Appliance.
Thirteen percent of CIOs interviewed for the Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report plan to add full-time IT staff in the first quarter, while 1 percent anticipate personnel reductions.
Business Objects and MySQL announced the signing of a new OEM referral agreement on Monday.
A major shift in Internet attacks is under way. “For 5 years, the majority of attacks targeted operating systems like Unix and Windows, and Internet services like Web servers and mail systems,” notes a new study from SANS, a computer security education and information security training firm.
Cisco is touting its new app net services as a performance booster for critical business applications, while also claiming that they lower costs and expand IT flexibility.
There's new research from market watcher Gartner that says the Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) data tools market had a surprisingly successful 2004.
Several vendors offer network access control programs. Now Identity Engines, a start-up vendor with a Cisco-heavy pedigree, is launching its own variation on this theme.
Sun said on Tuesday that it has launched the NetBeans WorldTour, an initiative for distributing and sharing the NetBeans software worldwide.
On Tuesday, Fujitsu Software announced the release of Interstage Business Process Manager Studio (IBPMS), a graphical process modeling studio.
Red Hat said on Tuesday that it has launched a new service to provide certification and production support for open-source software stacks.
JBoss said on Monday that it has acquired distributed transaction monitor and Web services technologies owned by Arjuna Technologies and HP and will open source them for the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS).
Sonic Software on Monday introduced its technical definition of the enterprise service bus, a product it has been selling for some time. "Sonic ESB: An Architecture and Lifecycle Definition" examines the core capabilities and usage of an ESB, from development to production.
AmberPoint announced on Monday a new release of its SOA runtime governance software, AmberPoint 5.0, which the company says has new capabilities such as improved management control and an enhanced user interface.
The Customer Respect Group, an international research and consulting firm that focuses on how corporations treat their online customers, has released findings from its Fourth Quarter 2005 Online Customer Respect Study of Transportation, Distribution and Logistics Industry. This is the fifth study conducted on the industry.
Mindreef has released a Web services lifecycle collaboration platform for organizations building Web services and service-oriented architectures. Mindreef Coral, as the new platform is named, enables users, service teams and service consumers to collaborate and share information, regardless of role, skill set or development environment, the company says.
Look at this month's National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses (NACCB) IT employment index and you'll find two things: good news and great news.
Numerous research and analysis firms are already projecting information security to be the next big boom in technology spending, and the storage guys are hoping to go along for the ride with encryption products.
To the buyer belong the spoils, especially when the buyer in question has ponied up $1 billion or more. So it was that IBM co-opted last week's Ascential World customer confab and turned it into a showcase for its stack of data integration products.