You don't need a crystal ball to find what the killer application for Web services will be in 2003, maintains John McGuire, co-founder and senior vice president of engineering at Cape Clear Software, a Dublin, Ireland-based Web
services tool maker, because it's under every IT manager's nose: The simplification of application integration inside the firewall.
Linux is coming to a camcorder near you -- and a TV, VCR and a ''smart'' microwave oven -- that is, if a new agreement between Sony Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. to adapt the open-source operating system for consumer electronics bears fruit.
Monitoring the performance of distributed systems remains one of the great challenges for IT managers today -- one that has only intensified with the advent of Web services.
According to a new report by analysts at the Boston-based Aberdeen Group, worldwide spending on IT products and services will increase 4.0% in 2003, with U.S. spending projected to increase 3.6%.
Maintaining that ''the lack of adequate monitoring and management tools has
delayed the promise of Web services,'' Confluent Software Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., has announced plans to release ''Interceptor'' technology for Microsoft .NET.
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP have joined forces to create a new Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) technical committee to work on XML standards aimed at speeding up lingual translation of Web content in global business applications.
Enterprise software maker Sybase moved to strengthen its position at the
front of the line in the burgeoning mobile/wireless middleware market last week
by signing a definitive agreement to acquire AvantGo. The all-cash deal, reportedly valued at approximately $38 million, is expected to close by the end of Q1/2003.
Three software companies -- OpenLink Software, Winfessor and Tipic -- recently weighed in with their support for Mono, an open-source implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
Sun Microsystems said last week that it will
begin shipping an evaluation version of BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 with its Solaris 9 Operating Environment System Administrator's Kit, beginning January 3, as an alternative to its own Sun Open Net Environment (SunONE) application server.
A federal judge said he is prepared to grant Sun Microsystems’ request for an injunction requiring Microsoft Corp. to distribute Sun’s Java plug-in as part of its Windows XP operating system and Internet Explorer Web browser. -Dec.23
Veritas Software Corp., Mountain View, Calif., is buying Precise Software Solutions, Westwood, Mass., in a planned stock and cash transaction valued at $537 million.
The beginning of 2003 marks ''the end of the Native XML Data [NXD] store market as we know it,'' proclaims Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink, LLC, a Waltham, Mass.-based analyst firm specializing in XML.
The Eclipse standards consortium has launched an effort to allow the integration of testing and other automated software quality tools from multiple vendors.
Seeking to push the least-used component of Web services from its current status as stagnating standard to a future of active deployment, Provo,
Utah-based Novell Inc. this week began distributing a free UDDI server download.
An eight-month project called for Volvo IT consultants to take 300,000 entries in multiple customer databases and create a single database for CRM and business intelligence applications.
According to Thomas Siebel, chairman and CEO at Siebel Systems, the notion that companies must integrate their IT infrastructures so thoroughly that management has instant, accurate, up-to-the-second information at its fingertips anytime,
anywhere, is really a model of corporate survival.
In an effort to give the market for its namesake wireless technology a shot in the arm, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group unveiled a
new initiative last week aimed at ensuring interoperability among Bluetooth-enabled devices.
BEA has disclosed a strategic alliance with ComponentSource.
After more than two years of tugs and tweaks, the OASIS interoperability standards consortium last week ratified the ebXML Collaboration Protocol Profile and Agreement as an OASIS open standard.
Though the need is huge, Web services access to mainframe data streams remains pretty much non-existent, according to Mark Vanston, program director at the Stamford, Conn.-based Meta Group's Enterprise Data Center Strategies service.