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JBoss acquires technologies from Arjuna and HP with plans to open source

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 delivers its idea of an enterprise service bus

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 releases upgrade of its governance software

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.

Logistics and transportation customers get more respect

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 intros Web services lifecycle collab platform

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.

IT employment bucks national trend

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.

A feeding frenzy for storage encryption

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.

IBM gets behind master data

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.

Netmanage joins JBoss Certified Partner Program

NetManage announced on Tuesday it has become a JBoss Certified Solutions Partner. NetManage will offer Librados pure Java JCA Plus Adapters to enterprises building and deploying solutions on the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite.

Sun Microsystems offers developers Sun Studio 11 at no cost

Earlier this month, Sun released the Sun Studio 11 development suite at no cost to developers.

LiveTime Software releases service management appliance

LiveTime Software, a provider of Java 2 Enterprise Edition-based service management software, has announced the general availability of the LiveTime Appliance, which the company claims is the industry's first service management appliance.

Netezza and SPSS get the hook up

When you think of companies that are naturally synergistic, Netezza and SPSS probably aren't the first two that come to mind. Nevertheless, Netezza and SPSS entered into an accord recently, when SPSS' Clementine data mining workbench was certified for use with Netezza's Performance Server (NPS) data warehousing appliance.

Microsoft launches hosting partner program

On Monday, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Hosting Program, a free offering that provides hosting companies with technical tools and resources to help them deploy and manage Microsoft products. According to Microsoft, hosting service providers can streamline their operations for quicker app and service deployment and better manage their systems.

Autodesk contributes Web mapping software to open-source community

Autodesk announced on Monday it is releasing the code for MapServer Enterprise, the company's new Web mapping platform, as open source. A snapshot of the source code is available through the new MapServer Foundation, an independent non-profit organization with the mission of supporting and promoting open source Web mapping.

Crystal Reports for Eclipse touted as a Java-based reporting solution

Actuate saw a bona fide opportunity last year when it came on board the open-source Eclipse Foundation as a strategic developer. J2EE programmers had long bemoaned the absence of a native Java reporting solution for Eclipse, the world's most popular Java integrated development environment, and Actuate promised to give them just that, with the Business Intelligence Reporting Tool. It now turns out that Actuate's opportunity isn't unique.

JetBrains releases TMate 2.0

JetBrains says it has released JetBrains TMate 2.0, a combination Web app and plug-in for the company's Java IDE. That product, IntelliJ IDEA, provides advanced repository management capabilities for users of CVS or Subversion version control systems from a Web browser or from within IntelliJ IDEA. New in JetBrains TMate 2.0 are Subversion features including Local Changesets and Pending Updates.

Software AG proposes to deliver rich Internet apps using AJAX

On Tuesday, Software AG said its Composite Application Integrator (CAI), a design and runtime environment for combining Web services into rich composite Internet apps, now supports Google maps. The company claims CAI is the first product based on AJAX to include a Google maps control.

SQL Server 2005 here and now, sorta

One thing that was not immediately evident in the noise about the recent launch of Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 was the fact that the next-gen database isn't generally available yet.

Oracle user group assimilates PeopleSoft user groups

The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) said on Monday it has incorporated four user groups formerly associated with PeopleSoft into OAUG as special interest groups.

App performance troubleshooting is in reactive mode

When it comes to troubleshooting application performance problems, most organizations are still stuck in reactive mode.