- Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2 goes live
- Fiorano adds .Net runtime to ESB, SOA platforms
- Icesoft offers AJAX framework for enterprise Java
- KickApps delivers social networking as a service
- Ohloh helps examine open source software
- VMware Server leaves beta
- Update: BEA bolsters customer support
- Real Software upgrades Realbasic for Linux
- Antepo beta dials in to presence awareness
July 26, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2 goes live
Oracle will release this week the next edition of Warehouse Builder 10g for database design and ETL [Extraction, Transformation and Load]with improvements to its name and address cleansing and match-merge functionality.
Another new feature included in Release 2 will give companies the ability to integrate with business intelligence tools by allowing database designers to create targeted relational and OLAP database structures.
Release 2 will also support non-Oracle databases as the data repository.
The Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2 is available now for 10 different platforms including Linux and Windows.
The so-called core ETL functionality of Oracle Warehouse Builder is free of charge.
The ETL option is priced at $10,000 per CPU or $200 per user.
The Data Quality option is priced at $15,000 per CPU or $300 per user.
Oracle Connector for the Oracle E-Business suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise and SAP are priced at $20,000 on a per Connector per target basis.
Posted by Ephraim Schwartz on July 26, 2006 01:22 PM
July 21, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Fiorano adds .Net runtime to ESB, SOA platforms
Fiorano Software this week released a native, managed .Net runtime for the company's enterprise service bus (ESB) and SOA platforms, the company said.
By adding the runtime, Fiorano's ESB now supports native C, C++, Java and all languages in the .Net Framework, including C# and Visual Basic. Developers can build and deploy distributed applications using multiple languages over a single framework.
With Fiorano's software, developers can leverage high-speed messaging and component-based SOA development using a wide mix of languages. The company features a peer-to-peer distributed architecture for linear scalability.
Fiorano on its Web site describes the Fiorano ESB as a Web services-capable middleware infrastructure platform supporting intelligently directed and mediated relationships between loosely coupled and decoupled business components.
Fiorano SOA 2006, meanwhile, is an SOA platform for real-time business based on a Business Component Architecture. (BCA).
Posted by Paul Krill on July 21, 2006 01:55 PM
July 19, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Icesoft offers AJAX framework for enterprise Java
Icesoft Technologies on Wednesday released Icefaces Enterprise Edition v1.0, an integrated AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) framework for Java EE (Enterprise Edition),
The product extends JavaServer Faces to enable Java developers to build thin-client rich Web applications, Icefaces said. Application logic is resident on the server, with incremental changes to the presentation delivered to the browser and reassembled using a lightweight AJAX bridge.
Developers can develop thin-client Java applications while eliminating the proliferation of JavaScript code, according to Icefaces. Icefaces supports "AJAX Push" technology, which allows presentation changes to be pushed directly from the server to the client.
The Icefaces Community Edition is offered at no cost while the Enterprise Edition is a commercial upgrade with basic Community Edition features and enterprise-level scalability, advanced connection management and an asynchronous HTTP server. Clustering also is supported in the Enterprise Edition.
Pricing for the Enterprise Edition starts at $1,500 per CPU.
Posted by Paul Krill on July 19, 2006 09:06 AM
July 14, 2006 | Comments: (0)
KickApps delivers social networking as a service
KickApps has released what it says is the industry's
first hosted service to give Web sites enterpise-class rich-media sharing and social networking functionality.
The company said this week: "KickApps addresses the needs of webmasters looking to provide their visitors with all the functionality typically found at leading Web 2.0 portals like MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and Facebook."
Although the service is outsourced, it can be customized to look as if a natural extension of a site's design, and comes with advanced managment tools such as for filtering pornography and managing copyright.
The company has also worked with leading traffic reporting companies to make sure traffic figures are accurate and counted towards a site's total traffic.
KickApps founder and chief executive Eric Alterman told InfoWorld that the ability to share what is created and stored on KickApps-powered sites via cut-and-paste "widget" were key to his expectations for its success. The widgets come in the form of Flash-based objects that contain video and other media aggregated by affiliate websites.
"While KickApps enables the usual features found on most user-generated content websites our widget-based platform is designed to create a far more dynamic and viral media experience," Alterman said.
The service, available for free as a KickApps ad-supported option and as a paid option, is available now and the company said it would announce a number of significant customers over the next several weeks.
www.kickapps.com
Posted by Mike Barton on July 14, 2006 04:32 PM
July 13, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Ohloh helps examine open source software
Ohloh has begun a public beta of its hosted service that helps customers evaluate which open source software to use.
Looking to remove the veil over the development process, Ohloh collects project information from source code and the source control system. The company looks at software to find sound engineering practices and potential licensing conflicts. Users can compare product metrics including languages, code base size, the size of development teams involved in a project and project activity.
Ohloh's service differs from offerings from companies such as SpikeSource and SourceLabs, which maintain an open source stack, said Scott Collison, Ohloh CEO.
"What we do is provide transparency into how the open source software was made," Collison said.
Additionally, the company helps customers make build-or-buy decisions by providing cost estimates for development of projects.
Ohloh crawls the Internet in search of open source projects to examine. The company plans to expand its services to include proprietary software as well.
Posted by Paul Krill on July 13, 2006 03:16 PM
July 12, 2006 | Comments: (0)
After a five-month beta test program, VMware has released the final version of VMware Server, the free successor to the company's GSX Server virtualization product. VMware Server allows administrators to create multiple virtual machines running a variety of guest operating systems on x86 servers running either Windows or Linux.
The new product includes support for 64-bit guest OSes on 64-bit processors, as well as experimental support for 2-way virtual SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) and Intel's VT hardware virtualization support. In addition, the final version includes support for management via VMware's Virtual Center console product, providing an easy upgrade path to the company's enterprise-class Virtual Infrastructure product line.
Posted by Neil McAllister on July 12, 2006 10:11 AM
July 11, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Update: BEA bolsters customer support
BEA Systems this week is expanding its customer support program to provide indefinite support for major releases, the company said.
Improvements included in the newly introduced BEA Customer First support program include offering customers unlimited, 24/7 access to BEA support professionals either by phone or online. Customers also get unlimited access to updates and upgrades for as long as their business demands, BEA said.
"BEA is the only software vendor offering indefinite phone and Web-based support as long as the customer needs it," said Jim Rivas, BEA representative, in an email.
To assist with upgrades, BEA Customer First also provides bi-annual maintenance, update tools and migration assistance.
Posted by Paul Krill on July 11, 2006 01:34 PM
July 07, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Real Software upgrades Realbasic for Linux
Real Software is shipping Realbasic 2006 Release 3 for Linux, which is a new version of its Visual Basic-like object-oriented programming language and environment.
The offering is intended to help enterprise developers migrate Visual Basic applications to Linux. More than 100 features and fixes are included in Release 3, which has been specifically optimized for use with the Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell.
Improvements include a version control format function that saves and exports projects in text format for use with version control systems such as CVS (Concurrent Versions System) and Subversion. Code error-checking also is highlighted, as are improved project navigation and Linux-specific improvements to boost the user experience and reliability.
Realbasic 2006 Release 3 for Linux Professional Edition is priced at $500. The Professional edition features cross-platform compilation, multi-user database development support and the ability to develop secure networked applications.
Posted by Paul Krill on July 7, 2006 08:59 AM
July 06, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Antepo beta dials in to presence awareness
Antepo has announced the beta release of Rivoli, the latest upgrade to its real-time business collaboration platform OPN System.
The company says OPN System Rivolo brings together presence awareness, IM (instant messaging) and VoIP, "essentially creating a new dial tone -- while meeting critical business requirements for integration, control, security, compliance, and scalability."
Rivolio "seamlessly integrates Presence awareness with corporate directories and popular desktop productivity tools such as Microsoft Office, allowing users to quickly find colleagues and synchronize their availability for conversations and meetings," the company said.
The system also provides a way to tie presence awareness and collaboration to IP telephony infrastructures through standards-based SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) signaling interfaces, the company said.
Maxime Seguineau, Chairman and CEO of Antepo, said: "As communications modes converge over IP networks, the traditional dial tone is giving way to a new, more intelligent one in the form of Presence."
He told InfoWorld the evaluation beta, which was now available at its Web site, was near final and very stable.
The final version is expected by September.
Posted by Mike Barton on July 6, 2006 09:30 AM