There is a growing trend toward widespread adoption of the Microsoft Web services development environment by Visual Basic 6 developers.
BEA Systems, continuing its effort to broaden its product portfolio, took the wraps off of its much-anticipated Liquid Data for WebLogic product last week.
Quest Software has finalized its acquisition of Sitraka Inc., putting itself squarely in the J2EE application management business with an established line of products.
To meet the demands of customers moving to multi-server, multi-service Web service deployments, Cape Clear Software is distributing a beta version of what it calls a next-generation Web services platform, according to Executive Vice
President David Clarke.
Dow Corning discusses its initiative to get up close to real-time-type capabilities and to extend that ability to its suppliers and customers through Web apps or business-to-business automation.
Further development and promotion of Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) security technology for e-business and Web services applications will be done by the OASIS global standards consortium.
Delray Beach, Fla.-based Levenger, a catalog company and retailer of high-end library and reading merchandise, deployed a Web application management solution as part of a recent re-launch of its storefront.
An industry trade group has taken the wraps off a new 802.11 wireless network security specification based on the Wi-FI Protected Access standard.
What do you get when you cross 'e-business' with 'computing-on-demand?' If you're IBM chief Sam Palmisano, you get a far-reaching enterprise computing strategy dubbed 'e-business on demand' -- and an opportunity to take your predecessor's vision to the next level and make it your own.
A U.S. District Court ruled largely in favor of Microsoft in its long-running antitrust case. --Nov. 1
Phaos Technology Corp. has released a Java-based toolkit for implementing Liberty 1.0.
Intel Corp. has disclosed plans to invest $150 million over the next two or three years in start-up companies developing 802.11 wireless LAN technologies.
IBM's Allegro Framework, currently in beta, will provide mechanisms, including metering and billing, so businesses can sell and subscribe to Web services.
Borland Software is continuing its software tool buying spree. The company has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Java design and analysis tool maker TogetherSoft for about $185 million in cash and stock.
Seattle-based F5 Networks, a six-year-old maker of devices that manage Internet traffic, has unveiled a solution that officials say can apply the benefits delivered by Web-only traffic management products, such as high availability, scalability and increased performance, to any IP-based application.
Portal software maker Corechange, Boston, this week unveiled a process management add-on that company officials said can enable business users to leverage Web services and other technologies to assemble and manage automated business processes.
Sun discloses that it will not only join the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I)organization, but plans to run for election to the organization's newly expanded board.
Siebel and Microsoft disclose details of a wide-ranging strategic alliance during Siebel's user conference.
The vision of public UDDI registries where enterprises could search for direct connections to far-flung Web services is little more than a futuristic dream, says Rajiv Gupta, but that does not mean UDDI is dormant.
According to research from Delphi Group, the value proposition of information-retrieval technology has expanded dramatically from traditional search technology, and market growth over the next few years is predicted to reflect that.