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XAware's Data Integration App Goes Open Source

Company teams with MySQL and offers XML-handling capabilities for service-oriented architectures and traditional database management applications.

Microsoft's Oslo: Putting SOA on the Map

Microsoft has unveiled a multi-year, multi-product initiative, code-named "Oslo," that reflects a number of its recent enterprise solution strategies.

New Google-Microsoft Squabble Seen on Social Networking Front

Google's attempt to take a leading role in social networking has some pundits saying yet another Google vs. Microsoft battle scenario is playing out.

Microsoft Officials Detail Visual Studio 2008 Rollout Plan

In announcing today that it will release to manufacturing Visual Studio 2008 this month, Microsoft is meeting the most optimistic forecasts for when the long anticipated upgrade to its flagship IDE would ship.

Open Source Adoption Low but Growing

Security and support were key concerns in Independent Oracle User's Group survey.

IT Should Embrace ITSM Methods, Report Suggests

The management of services by IT departments is the subject of an August 2007 report by the Aberdeen Group. The report focuses on companies that use IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)-based approaches, which is a set of best practices for IT. The report specifically hones in on an ITIL discipline called IT Service Management (ITSM).

DataDirect Puts the zIIP in SOA Mainframes

DataDirect has upgraded its Shadow mainframe data integration solution.

OSS Gains Ground in Survey of IT Pros

Open source software (OSS) is not so much the underdog in the IT world, according survey findings announced by Barracuda Networks, a provider of e-mail and Web security appliances.

Zend To Integrate Its PHP IDE With Eclipse

In other news from the company's annual event, Zend announced collaborative agreements with Microsoft, IBM and Oracle.

SAP To Acquire Business Objects

Marking perhaps the most significant BI acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business Objects, the largest supplier of BI software, for $6.7 billion.

Enterprise Web 2.0: More Than a Facelift

Mashups and rich Internet applications are all fine, but enterprise developers will need a flexible framework before embracing Web 2.0 technologies.

Ipedo Boosts Data Virtualization App

Enterprise information integration solution gets improved data caching and querying power, plus MySQL support.

UPDATED: Microsoft Ships PerformancePoint Server 2007

Microsoft Corp. today officially unveiled PerformancePoint Server 2007, its highly anticipated performance management (PM) software.

Serena Treads New Ground With Mashups

Company known for its ALM solutions is now in the mashup business.

W3C Publishes Web Services Policy 1.5

Group devises a more flexible method of handling policy changes for Web services and service-oriented architectures.