Following months of speculation, Charles Wang this week retired from his position as chairman of the board of Computer Associates (CA) International Inc., Islandia, N.Y.
Candle Corp. is unveiling several packages of bundled tools and services that will help IT to better utilize IBM's WebSphere offerings during the different phases of the development life cycle.
SAS Institute Inc., Cary, N.C., has acquired certain technology assets of Verbind, a maker of real-time behavioral tracking and event-triggering technology. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The emergence of Service-oriented Management software will lead the rapid growth of Web services management products, which will reach $9.2 billion in the next five years, predicts ZapThink LLC., a Waltham, Mass.-based consulting
firm.
The Microsoft Tablet PC publicity blitz made a scheduled stop in Silicon Valley last week. Speaking to a packed house at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Matt Pease, general manager of Microsoft's Northern California district,
talked about ''the evolution of productivity tools,'' ''extending the PC
infrastructure'' and devices that are ''taking ink to the next level.''
Oracle Corp., out to give Microsoft and IBM a run for their money in the communications and collaboration markets, debuted a new version of its Collaboration Suite.
webMethods Inc., Fairfax, Va., recently unveiled Version 6 of its webMethods Integration Platform.
XForms 1.0, a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard for creating XML-based interactive forms for end users, is now ready for developers to implement in Web applications, W3C officials disclosed this week.
Progress' acquisition of eXcelon Corp. is intended to strengthen Sonic Software's play in the high-end enterprise integration market.
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.