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.
Attack detected on 13 root DNS servers, SuSE Linux and TurboLinux in strategic alliance, and more.
NeoCore Inc., Colorado Springs, Colo., and Data Junction Corp., Austin, Texas, this week disclosed plans to combine NeoCore's XML Information Management Systems (XMS) database with Data Junction's ETL capabilities.
XML technology continues to contribute to advances in corporate computing. One of the latest examples comes from Adobe, which has just unleashed a new set of servers.
Intel and Advanced Micro Devices strut their stuff at the Micro Processor Forum trade show.
Intel and Microsoft are jointly developing technologies and a reference design based on the Speech Applications Language Tags (SALT) 1.0 specification submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in August.
XSL-FO, which provides a framework for the useful formatting of semantics for paginating information for better browser navigation and print support, can be a Web services creator's best friend, says Ken Holman.
Sun executives have outlined plans to slash its workforce by 11%.
Market research firm Dataquest Inc. says corporations worldwide are continuing to postpone personal computer purchases.
TDK Systems Europe Managing Director Nick Hunn writes that the IEEE standards body seems to have forgotten that for WLAN to take off, it must be seens as simple technology by end users.
While the promise of Web services may be elaborate e-business applications
running on the Internet, the reality of the XML-based technology implementations
remains much more mundane, according to Bob Potter, executive vice president of
business operations at Iona Technologies, Waltham, Mass.
Harnessing unstructured data from customers can boost efficiency and revenues. Island Data's Insight RT seeks to understand the hidden meaning of words within the context of specific customer interactions.
Ascential Software Corp., Westboro, Mass., and Top Team Inc., San Mateo, Calif., will use the Oracle user group stage in San Francisco next month to unveil a joint solution aimed at easing corporate migrations to the Oracle 11i
database and applications suite.