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From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtualFrom big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes. On the road to the virtual desktop Click ‘n’ run. It seems like such a simple concept. Surf up to a Web page, select the desired application from a list, and click. Voila! Microsoft Word appears on your desktop. Or Excel, or Adobe Photoshop… you name it.  September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Herd behavior demonstrated at Demo "Whatever happened to working alone?” September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT BEA for sale? Not likely Talk about raining on a parade. September 17, 8:42 p.m. PDT GlassFish app server goes enterprise Sun is announcing Monday the release of the GlassFish version 2 open-source application server, which features enterprise-level capabilities for running large-scale applications. September 16, 9:01 p.m. PDT Trust key to Internet security A few of my previous columns discussed my vision of creating a more secure Internet. It involved replacing the Internet's default anonymity with pervasive authentication, from the hardware initialization, through the OS and all applications, the user, and ending with a verifiable network stream. It is my strong belief that without a complete overhaul of default authentication, malicious hacking is going to continue indefinitely. September 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT BEA upgrades app server with SOA, Web 2.0 capabilities BEA Systems will fit its WebLogic Server Java application server with improvements geared to Web 2.0, SOA and interoperability with Microsoft's .Net platform, the company said at the BEAWorld San Francisco conference on Wednesday. September 12, 2:45 p.m. PDT Introducing the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta. Now open source software is becoming big business. “Now hiring” is a common sight on project home pages, and .org and SourceForge sites that used to point straight to source code archives are redirected to .com URLs that celebrate the commercial success of what started out as collaborations among unpaid coders of like mind. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT BEA offers per-instance pricing for virtualization Capitalizing on the industry's virtualization trend, BEA Systems has fashioned a per-instance model for its virtualization software in an attempt to do what a company official said better reflects usage patterns. September 4, 12:50 p.m. PDT Sun wants investors to recognize it as the Java company Apparently it's not enough that Sun peppers any and all discussions of its hardware and software products with liberal mentions of its Java programming language, now the vendor wants Wall Street to sit up and take more note of its homegrown technology too. August 23, 1:00 p.m. PDT BEA: Revenues up but license fee collections down BEA Systems provided a snapshot Thursday of its recently ended second quarter for the 2008 fiscal year, in which revenues were up but the company saw licensing fee collections drop. August 16, 4:00 p.m. PDT ILOG JRules 6.5 brings rules to SOA ILOG JRules Version 6.5 is primarily a refinement of the architecture and features first introduced in Version 6.0. With the 6.x line, ILOG adopted the basic architecture seen across the BRMS (Business Rules Management System) industry. As such, JRules combines a rule engine deployed and managed as a stand-alone module (Rule Execution Server); a rule repository for sharing, versioning, and reporting on rules (Rule Team Server); and a set of authoring tools for both business users and technical staff to interact with the repository (Rule Studio). August 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT McAfee sets Rootkit Detective free On July 26, McAfee will begin offering a new application called Rootkit Detective, designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks. The software will also help end-users ward off the threats, as well as funnel new intelligence into the company's ongoing research operations. July 25, 1:12 p.m. PDT A developer's-eye view of Leopard, part IV With its transitions from Mac OS to OS X, PowerPC to Intel, and Panther to Tiger under its belt, Apple is all about moving on. Now it’s the developers’ turn to move on. If you haven’t done it yet, it’s time to bid farewell to C and Carbon, and to embrace Objective-C and Cocoa for your GUI applications. It’s time to count on Universal Binaries, not Rosetta (Apple’s PowerPC translator for Intel Macs), to get your software out to the whole Mac market, which will soon be dominated by 64-bit Intel Macs. If you haven’t yet broken the habits of jamming new icons into the menu bar and turning every convenience utility into a CPU-sapping background process with its own always-on-top window, you should get to know Dashcode. If your application terminates because it can’t locate a critical file, learn the ways of Time Machine. And if, when you think of Web applications, your mind automatically zeroes in on Java, you might look at Ruby on Rails as a far simpler, much lighter-weight open source alternative that’s remarkably well appointed. June 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT BEA tackles event-driven architecture BEA Systems will enter the event-driven architecture space Monday with a product geared for SOA in Java environments. May 28, 5:00 a.m. PDT Oracle focuses on app server, AJAX at JavaOne Oracle's plate of announcements for the JavaOne conference this week features upgrades to its application server and IDE as well as a kit to make it easier to work with the Spring Framework for Java development. May 7, 5:00 a.m. PDT Sun releases Java Enterprise System 5.0 Sun Microsystems has released a new version of its Java Enterprise System (Java ES) set of subscription-based enterprise middleware with the emphasis on making the offering more modular. March 2, 8:36 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Platforms Novell’s Suse Linux 10 was the landmark operating system launch of the year, giving us a bigger and badder Linux server and a startlingly smooth Linux desktop. We also got good looks at Microsoft Vista and Windows Longhorn betas, and at BEA’s venerable WebLogic 9.1. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST What does 2007 hold for open source? I couldn't have an easier time playing fortune-teller this year. While some segments of the IT market might see the future as a wide-open plain, for the open source community, 2007 is shaping up to be a year for settling unfinished business. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST BEA sees Java virtualization approach as differentiator Middleware vendor BEA Systems Inc. will lay out its Java virtualization strategy later this week in China, an approach the vendor hopes will differentiate it from its competitors. December 11, 10:39 a.m. PST JBoss joins ESB fray Filling out its open source middleware stack, JBoss on Monday is unveiling its ESB (enterprise service bus) as well as revealing core technologies planned for an upcoming application server upgrade. November 20, 5:00 a.m. PST Borland names new CFO Borland Software Corp.'s surprise decision to spin off, rather than sell, its tools business overshadowed the vendor's appointment of a new chief financial officer (CFO). November 15, 9:56 a.m. PST Sun open sources Java under GPL It's no surprise that Sun Microsystems is making its core Java platform freely available; what is somewhat unexpected is the vendor's choice of open-source license. November 13, 4:05 a.m. PST Green: Sun to illuminate Web 2.0 Sun Microsystems has had its share of ups and downs through the years. But since the collapse of the dot-com bubble in 2000 -- a bubble that made Sun immensely wealthy -- it has indisputably had more downs than ups. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Sun expands support for Ubuntu Linux Sun Microsystems is making its Java Enterprise Edition 5 programming platform available on the open-source Ubuntu Linux distribution. November 8, 4:32 a.m. PST SAP to license NetWeaver to non-customer developers In a long-anticipated change in policy, SAP will announce next week at its TechEd conference in Amsterdam it will make NetWeaver licenses available to individual developers. October 13, 1:00 p.m. PDT BEA looks to tap Web 2.0 for Enterprise Long a player in the geeky world of enterprise middleware, BEA will soon be diving into a frothy Web 2.0 space as it tries to tap into the genius of Web sites such as del.icio.us, Wikipedia, and YouTube, according to Mark Carges, executive vice president of business interaction at BEA. September 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT BEA advancing high-performance apps platform BEA Systems on Monday is launching an upgrade to its high-performance application platform, WebLogic Real Time Core Edition 1.1, featuring lower latency and runtime analysis. The product includes the WebLogic Express 9.2 application server and adds the JRockit Runtime Analyzer tool, providing detailed information on the Java virtual machine and the application that is running. The tool detects memory leaks. August 28, 5:00 a.m. PDT Exclusive: Corticon plays by different rules Dr. Mark Allen of Corticon caused quite a ruckus several years ago when he published a paper called “Rete is Wrong,” which took all of the rule-based engines based on the Rete (pronounced Ree-tee) algorithm to task for inefficiencies and poor construction. Allen explained that, in contrast to the Rete engines in market-leading BRMS (Business Rules Management Systems) such as ILOG’s JRules and Fair Isaac’s Blaze Advisor, Corticon had a DETI (Design-Time Inferencing, pronounced Dee-Tee) engine. July 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT ISM’s Predictive Pro predicts potential code weaknesses Most QA tools manage project and bug tracking. They largely manipulate and organize information gathered in the past, and in so doing, tell you where you are on a project. If they step into the future, they only do so to assist in constructing timetables of proposed activities such as task planning. June 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun releases Java EE 5, promises openness Sun Microsystems Inc. has made its Java programming language a little more open-source friendly, releasing a major enterprise update at its annual developer conference Tuesday, and cautiously committing to turn Java into an open-source project. May 16, 3:06 p.m. PDT IBM updates bring SOA to mainframes See correction below May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun's Schwartz still doesn't get Linux Scott McNealy is out. Jonathan Schwartz is in. And the future never looked brighter for Sun Microsystems -- or so we're told. But if Sun's new CEO is going to convince me that his company can remain a dominant player in enterprise software, first he's going to have to get his story straight, particularly when it comes to Linux and open source. May 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT BEA warms to ColdFusion users BEA Systems hopes to lure users of ColdFusion applications to BEA's WebLogic Server platform by licensing New Atlanta's BlueDragon software. April 17, 5:00 a.m. PDT Fleury: JBoss to scale its business Look for JBoss to scale its business now that it has the backing of Red Hat, JBoss Chairman and CEO Marc Fleury said on Wednesday. April 12, 4:10 p.m. PDT Red Hat deal spells bad news for Jonas Red Hat's planned acquisition of JBoss has raised questions about the future of the Jonas application server, the best-known project to emerge from Europe's ObjectWeb open-source software consortium. April 11, 9:04 a.m. PDT ILOG extends the tools for rules ILOG delivered JRules 6.0 at the end of March, just a little more than a year since the introduction of Version 5.0. JRules 6.0, in keeping with the company’s push to extend development and maintenance of business applications to business experts, includes new vocabulary features that are similar to regular expressions and are far friendlier to nondevelopers. In addition to performance and reporting improvements, Version 6.0 ushers in a Web-based rules repository and integration with any Eclipse-based IDE. April 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT JBoss, LogicBlaze introduce open source middleware Last week saw the debut of two new open source products from JBoss and LogicBlaze, each aimed at the enterprise middleware market. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Orbitz gets up and running fast with open source When Orbitz launched its online travel site in June 2001, it had two well-entrenched competitors: Travelocity and Expedia. Orbitz's goal was to offer something better, quickly. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Frustration drove Owens Forest Products to open source The IT group at Owens Forest Products went the traditional route of many smaller companies: a custom ERP system using tools such as Microsoft SQL Server, ASP.Net, and Business Objects’ Crystal Reports. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT The move to open source is good for BZ Results Fast-moving technology that works is what BZ Results wants in its IT tools. That’s why CTO Rob Lackey’s policy is to make sure there is at least one open source bid for each project. “Commercial software can’t compete with the open source development effort,” Lackey says. He cites the frequent, fast security updates available for Apache servers as an example of how the open source community delivers faster than traditional providers. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT BEA seeks to modularize app server Burlingame, Calif. -- BEA Systems is working to modularize services from its WebLogic Server application server, enabling them to run independently with open source frameworks, a company official said on Thursday. March 30, 2:30 p.m. PST Microsoft: A 21st-century has-been? Early this month, Neil Holloway, president of Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), said that in six months Microsoft’s search engine “will be more relevant” to the consumer than Google’s. It is no coincidence that Holloway used the word “relevant.” In high tech more than in any other industry, if your technology has been bypassed by the newer and better, you’re dead. Maintaining your relevancy is Job One. And for years, it has been Microsoft’s Achilles’ heel. March 14, 3:00 a.m. PST Cassatt unveils Java server virtualization software Three-year old startup Cassatt is extending its server virtualization software to J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) applications, the company said Monday. March 6, 2:23 p.m. PST Sun Labs readies kits for sensor development Sun Microsystems will offer a Java-based development kit for sensors in May that is intended to help researchers invent new uses for the devices. March 6, 2:01 p.m. PST Sun previewing enterprise Java revision Sun Microsystems on Tuesday plans to offer previews of the next releases of the enterprise version of Java and the NetBeans open source developer tools platform. February 21, 6:00 a.m. PST Oracle cites Eclipse as competitor with new dev tool Oracle, with the newly shipping version of its free JDeveloper Java development tool, is looking to compete with the Eclipse open source juggernaut. The company also is shipping an upgrade to its application server, bundled with a rules engine and an ESB (enterprise service bus). February 10, 2:00 p.m. PST Microsoft releases JDBC driver for SQL Server 2005 Microsoft has released a JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) driver for SQL Server 2005, providing a way for developers to link their Java applications to Microsoft's latest database software. January 19, 4:10 a.m. PST Siebel sees components Ever since the web services trend gathered steam, enterprise application vendors, beginning with SAP, have promised to componentize their sprawling ERP, CRM, and SCM (supply chain management) offerings into services that can be deployed individually on app servers -- potentially increasing deployment flexibility and reducing the hassle of big-bang upgrades. Last week, Siebel Systems took a stride in that direction by shipping a version of its Siebel Component Assembly product for deployment on BEA WebLogic Server 9.0. December 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Sun adds support for open-source Java database Sun Microsystems is incorporating its open-source Java DB database into the latest version of the Sun Java Enterprise System, it announced Tuesday. The company also announced that a plug-in for Java DB will come with NetBeans IDE 5.0, an upcoming version of its software development environment. December 14, 4:12 a.m. PST JBoss extends partner training program JBoss is hoping to sign up partners who will offer more complete training services around its stack of open-source Java middleware, the company said. December 13, 4:22 a.m. PST Forrester index finds US tech sector healthy for now The U.S. technology industry has recovered from a recession of 2001 and 2002 and is about as healthy as it's been in three years, according to a new tech sector economic index released Monday. December 12, 9:49 a.m. PST JBoss buys former HP middleware JBoss Inc. has added to its Java middleware stack by acquiring transaction processing software from Arjuna Technologies Ltd. and Hewlett-Packard Co., JBoss announced Monday. December 5, 3:35 a.m. PST No. 4: Maximizing the middle tier No matter how well written your business logic, when you deploy it to the middle tier, you will need to tune the application server runtime environment to maximize performance. November 28, 3:00 a.m. PST New BEA CTO says app server business is still growing Although fostering development of new technologies will be a chief goal of BEA Systems's new chief technology officer, don't look for the company to lessen its emphasis on its WebLogic application server platform, which has been the company's core offering. November 18, 2:15 p.m. PST Microsoft, JBoss unite in unlikely pairing Bowing to market realities, Microsoft will begin working with an ideological foe — open source development and services company JBoss — in an effort to optimize interoperability between JBoss’ middleware and Microsoft’s Windows Server software. October 3, 4:00 a.m. PDT BEA World hints at trials ahead for Java vendor SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Times have changed for BEA Systems. Once the brash darling of the Java application server market, the software vendor put forward a more humble face at its annual BEA World show this week in Santa Clara, Calif. September 28, 4:03 p.m. PDT SAP promotes ESA ecosystem Customers, software developers and other partners attending SAP AG's TechEd workshop in Vienna are being urged to embrace the company's new Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA), which has moved out of the lab and into the enterprise. September 21, 8:41 a.m. PDT Sprint rationalizes its infrastructure with SOA As far back as four years ago, Sprint’s IT staff was already headed toward SOA (service-oriented architecture). They just didn’t know it yet. September 12, 4:00 a.m. PDT Sun releases open-source JavaServer Faces code Sun Microsystems Inc. has recently open-sourced the code for its implementation of JavaServer Faces (JSF), its framework for building user interfaces to Java-based Web applications. September 2, 8:34 a.m. PDT BEA drops pricing premium for dual-core CPUs Acknowledging the industry trend toward multicore CPUs, BEA Systems now will treat dual-core processors as a single unit for pricing purposes for customers deploying its middleware, the company said on Monday. August 22, 10:30 a.m. PDT Product previews BEA builds out WebLogic 9.0 with enterprise enhancements BEA last week unveiled WebLogic 9.0 with updates to the kernel, support for multiple programming models, and a honed focus on operations, administration, and management. The new version has side-by-side upgrade capabilities for migrating users to new applications, and hot upgrade functionality that gives administrators the ability to upgrade servers in a cluster without disrupting users. BEA also added support for the Spring Framework and Apache Beehive programming models, in addition to J2EE, which it already supported. Moreover, in the operations, administration, and management realm, WebLogic 9.0 comes with the WebLogic Diagnostic Framework, so administrators can monitor applications as they are running. The latest version also features a My Yahoo-like UI and the WebLogic Scripting tool for automating scripting jobs. WebLogic 9.0, BEA Systems August 15, 5:00 a.m. PDT BEA enters WebLogic 9.0 into app server fray Making the latest kick in the application server races, BEA Systems on Monday slid WebLogic 9.0 onto the speedway. August 8, 6:00 a.m. PDT Farewell, CTO Connection If you haven’t checked out this week’s columns yet, let me be the one to break the bad news: Chad Dickerson is hanging up his InfoWorld CTO spurs and heading off to Yahoo, where he’ll be toiling away in the brave new world of search. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT Open source portals Standards support is an important criterion for most corporate development projects. In the area of enterprise portal servers, that means a J2EE-compliant engine that supports standards such as portlets (JSR 168) and WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets). Fortunately, there are quite a number of open source projects competing in this space. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT Startups vie to make Linux more attractive with bundled offerings Integrating open source applications is a task daunting enough to lead some companies toward proprietary products. To that end, several startups this week revealed plans to offer prebuilt, certified solutions so customers have fewer integration migraines. August 3, 6:00 a.m. PDT That Aha! moment You gotta love Greg Raleigh’s attitude. The man who invented the technology behind the forthcoming 802.11n Wi-Fi standard insists that solving problems is easy. The real challenge, he says, is “deciding what problems are interesting to solve.” August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT Sun plans to make all its software free Stanford, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems president and COO Jonathan Schwartz on Thursday cited the company's plans to eventually offer all of its software for free as a way to build communities around its technologies. July 21, 12:09 p.m. PDT Arm Holdings boosts Java apps with new Jazelle RCT SAN FRANCISCO - Chip designer Arm Holdings unveiled a new version of its Java acceleration technology Monday that adds support for a wider variety of compilers in order to improve the performance of Java applications on mobile phones and handheld devices. June 27, 12:07 p.m. PDT JBoss embraces EJB 3.0 JBoss is upgrading three of its Java middleware products to include an early version of the EJB 3.0 specification. June 27, 5:00 a.m. PDT Java, 10 years later Java’s first decade has proven it to be remarkably adaptable. Originally conceived as an embedded language for consumer devices, Java emerged from Sun Microsystems in 1995 as the programming language for Web browsers. It then morphed into the leading tool for business computing and serious application development -- in many ways the successor to both Cobol and C++. June 27, 5:00 a.m. PDT JavaOne features Sun open source ESB Open source and free software strategies will be at the forefront during the JavaOne conference this week in San Francisco, with varied rollouts from BEA Systems, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and others. Although the Java language specification itself remains out of the open source domain, vendors are providing Java technologies through open source. June 26, 9:01 p.m. PDT Exclusive: JRules 5.0 touches all the bases Abstracting business logic from underlying code into a separate language that business users can understand, a BRMS (Business Rule Management System) puts the control of business applications into the hands of the business owners. An enterprise BRMS, such as ILOG's JRules or Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor, removes the “impedance mismatch” between the IT department and business analysts, shortcutting the traditionally lengthy software change process and allowing applications to be updated quickly and easily as business requirements dictate. June 24, 5:00 a.m. PDT SOA styles Infoworld’s first SOA Executive Forum rolled out in San Jose, Calif. two weeks ago. This week we held the second installment in New York. At both events it was my privilege to engage some of the industry’s brightest minds in a series of conversations about SOA, and I’d like to thank everyone who participated. May 25, 5:00 a.m. PDT AJAX breathes new life into Web apps One year ago, Thomas Lackner didn’t ask much of JavaScript. When he sketched out the architecture to a Web application, he knew he could count on the browser language for “set-a-cookie hacks” and for loading images, but he turned to the server side for the heavy lifting. But when Google began launching highly interactive Web sites such as Gmail and Google Suggest, the scales dropped from Lackner’s eyes and he saw the opportunity. May 23, 5:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft to talk .Net at JavaOne For the first time since settling its long-standing legal dispute with Sun Microsystems, Microsoft will be a full-fledged participant in the JavaOne developer conference, which is being held in San Francisco next month. May 20, 5:05 p.m. PDT Watching the Java stack Most enterprise programmers know that the French playwright Jean-Paul Sartre was onto something when he wrote, “Hell is other people.” But they would tell you that hell is really other systems. A set of Web services, databases, and Web applications that work well on their own can slow to a crawl or even deadlock when they’re stitched together. It’s not enough to do a good job on the individual parts because the sum of the parts is something completely different. May 16, 5:00 a.m. PDT Product previews Sun heats up Java EnterpriseSystem with Version 3 Sun Microsystems late last month updated its JES (Java Enterprise System). The latest version, JES 3, features an upgraded application server; support for HP-UX and Windows; and licenses for Sun’s Identity Manager, N1 Grid Service Provisioning System, Portal Server Mobile Access, and Java Studio Enterprise products. Also new to Release 3 is the Enterprise Edition of Sun’s application server, which supports the latest version of the J2EE specification, Version 1.4, as well as some features for improving application availability. JES Release 2 came with the standard-edition application server. Sun increased the price of the JES suite to $140 per employee. This includes the additional products, although they are not integrated into the suite but offered separately. JES 3, Sun Microsystems May 2, 5:00 a.m. PDT Write once, run everywhere -- no kidding As free servers continue to rack up rapid gains in the installed base, Oracle hopes to hang on to its third-place position among vendors selling commercial J2EE-certified app servers. To boost AS (Application Server) 10g’s attractiveness alongside freeware alternatives, Oracle tries to split the difference between the cost benefits of free and the feature-richness of branded by making the entire server stack and tools free for development use. April 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT JBoss expanding indemnifications against IP claims JBoss on Tuesday is strengthening indemnification against intellectual property-related claims, seeking to mimic what customers have expected from rival commercial software vendors. April 4, 9:01 p.m. PDT Friendster scales the network with open source Who says open source can’t measure up to commercial software for mission-critical applications? Far from being a mere quick fix or low-cost alternative, open source software is helping real-world companies solve their most pressing IT problems. April 4, 6:00 a.m. PDT Blame Visual Studio .Net I dreamed that Microsoft put me in charge of development for its 64-bit enterprise server applications, the Exchange and SQL Server, and so on, all of which travel collectively as Windows Server System. I was asked to find out why some elements of WSS won’t run on 64-bit Windows, even though Opteron and 64-bit Xeon run 32-bit apps unmodified. “That doesn’t make sense,” I said to myself as I sized up my expansive corner office. March 23, 6:00 a.m. PST Sun readies scripting for NetBeans IDE Sun Microsystems Inc. has released the first, early fruits of a project to let developers use scripting languages from inside its NetBeans IDE (integrated development environment), a move that could improve productivity for NetBeans users and, Sun hopes, draw additional developers to the tools platform. March 16, 1:51 p.m. PST JBoss upgrades object-relational technology JBoss at its JBoss World 2005 conference in Atlanta next week will upgrade its Hibernate object-relational mapping software and debut service programs for open source projects and users of the vendor’s middleware. February 25, 4:30 p.m. PST Whatever happened to yesterday's hot technologies? Remember push technology? Or virtual reality for the Web? Or Microsoft Bob? Some ideas are probably better left consigned to history. And yet the roadside of the information superhighway is littered with ideas that sounded promising but never quite made it to revolution status before dropping off IT’s radar. February 25, 3:00 p.m. PST Startup Azul steps into the data center If Stephen DeWitt gets his way, the data center will become a much cooler place. Literally. February 24, 4:24 p.m. PST Microsoft promotes 'smart clients' San Francisco -- Three years after introducing Visual Studio .Net and the .Net Framework, Microsoft on Monday promoted the benefits of the developer tools and demonstrated some of the updates coming later this year in Visual Studio 2005. February 7, 11:53 a.m. PST BEA aims 'Da Vinci' software at telcos BEA Systems has rolled out a new version of its Java application server software aimed specifically at telecommunications providers, part of a broad push to increase business from one of its traditionally stronger markets. February 7, 9:39 a.m. PST Sun revamps Java Enterprise System Sun Microsystems on Tuesday is broadening its Java Enterprise System network services software package, releasing middleware suites tailored to functions such as service-oriented architectures and collaboration. The Java Enterprise System is also being upgraded. January 31, 9:01 p.m. PST JOnAS app server gets J2EE-certified PARIS - The ObjectWeb consortium's open source application server has been certified compliant with Sun Microsystems's enterprise Java specification, a development that the consortium hopes will help it to attract more corporate and government users. January 31, 4:48 p.m. PST Product Previews IBM adds to Power5 lineup IBM last week rolled out a low-end, power5-based 64-bit eServer OpenPower Model 710 that supports Linux distributions by both Red Hat and Novell. The server can be purchased with the company’s virtualization and micropartitioning software. Along with the new hardware, IBM also announced OpenPower Consolidation Express software that is intended to allow midsize users to streamline their overall IT infrastructure. The company also announced that SAP products have been certified to run on the Model 710 and, later this quarter, Sybase products will also be certified as well for that machine. The 710 will be available starting Feb. 18 and contains a 1.65GHz Power5 chip, 1GB of memory, a 73GB drive, and has an entry level price of $3,449. eServer OpenPower Model 710, IBM January 31, 6:00 a.m. PST Microsoft plans first Office System developer event Microsoft is inviting approximately 800 specially selected developers to attend the first-ever Microsoft Office System Developer Conference from Feb. 2 through Feb. 4 in Redmond, Wash. December 20, 4:05 p.m. PST JBoss set to shine with JEMS middleware stack JBoss on Monday plans to flesh out details of its open source middleware stack consisting largely of existing software technologies, with the company intending to fill out the stack over time. December 10, 9:40 a.m. PST BEA hails app server upgrade SAN FRANCISCO -- Not to be outdone by rival Oracle's conference being held a block away, BEA Systems on Monday unveiled Version 9.0 of its WebLogic Server application server, code-named Diablo. December 7, 9:00 a.m. PST Oracle readies major app server upgrade SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle on Wednesday will introduce Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2, which is being characterized as a significant upgrade to the product with improvements in Java, Web services, and identity management and the addition of RFID backing. December 6, 3:45 p.m. PST IBM software executive to become CA CEO Computer Associates International (CA) has named a former IBM software executive as its president and chief executive officer elect. November 23, 6:27 a.m. PST Report: IBM software executive to become CA CEO Computer Associates is set to name a recently departed IBM executive as its new chief executive officer, The Wall Street Journal reported online on Monday. November 22, 3:36 p.m. PST Oracle readies integration splash Oracle at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco the week of Dec. 5 plans to unveil Oracle Integration, a product that combines the company’s application server with several other technologies for integration and enablement of SOAs (service-oriented architectures). November 18, 11:15 a.m. PST Sun previews next version of Java Sun Microsystems on Monday night posted a prerelease, "snapshot" version of Java 2 Standard Edition 6.0, code-named Mustang, which represents the next generation of the Java platform. November 16, 12:25 p.m. PST Update: Apache Geronimo readied as Java app server LAS VEGAS -- Geronimo, the open source Java application server in development by the Apache Software Foundation, will provide a malleable technology base amenable to applications such as regulatory compliance systems, according to a technologist working on the project. 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