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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 Fear of insider threats hits home The more money that companies spend on securing their IT operations from external attack, the more it seems they become aware that the potential threat posed by their own employees remains their most significant risk. September 18, 10:42 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 The best open source programming language When we started working on the Bossies, we divided the broad Application Development group into many subcategories, including Language. It seemed like a good idea at the time. September 10, 3:00 a.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 The ABC's of RIA Rich Internet applications, or RIAs, comprise a spectrum of application types and technologies. The lightweight end of the spectrum is anchored by AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) or Web 2.0 applications, which add richness and responsiveness to standard Web sites with asynchronous JavaScript libraries: that's the "AJA" part of "AJAX." The "X" stands for "XML," but these days XML is not the only data format used by such libraries; it's also common to see asynchronous data exchange in JSON, HTML, and plain text formats. At this point, many people have stopped treating "AJAX" as a specific acronym and talk instead about the generic "Ajax" class of applications. August 6, 3:00 a.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 Java to get 'superpackage' for software distribution Sun Microsystems, which continues to plan for upgrades to the core Java platform, announced Tuesday at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco that Java Standard Edition (SE) 7 will feature a "superpackage" capability for improved distribution of small pieces of software. May 9, 5:20 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 Software Development: Simplicity tops the agenda Software development continued to move toward simplicity in 2006. Most evident was the widespread adoption of SOA (services-oriented architecture), which has become the technology of choice for integrating systems of all kinds -- in-house between departments, across stovepipe applications, and in B2B and B2C commerce. January 1, 3:00 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 Sun surprises with GPL for open source Java With wealthy companies increasingly eyeing the advantages of going open source with their proprietary wares these days, the caveats are multiplying around open source promises. And yet there was Sun Microsystems last week, doing things the old-school way: offering the Micro, Standard, and Enterprise editions of Java via the GNU GPL (General Public License) 2. The choice of the liberal GPL is significant because it requires derivatives of GPL code and any code combined with it to be distributed under the GPL. November 20, 3:00 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 CEO: Open source Java is "momentous" Santa Clara, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems's offering of the Java platform via open source under the GNU General Public License is a "momentous" change, said Sun President/CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Monday. But IBM wants the Apache Software Foundation in charge of Java. November 13, 1:10 p.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 Sun CEO sets open source Java time frame SAN FRANCISCO -- Demonstrating a perhaps more aggressive path than anticipated, Sun Microsystems is set to announce the open-sourcing of the core Java platform within 30 to 60 days, Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz said at the Oracle OpenWorld conference on Wednesday morning. October 25, 1:00 p.m. PDT Sun's Rich Green: Open source Java due in late-2006, 2007 Rich Green is in his second incarnation at Sun Microsystems, returning in May as executive vice president for software at the company. He is responsible for the Solaris Enterprise System, including the Solaris OS, the Java Enterprise System suites, N1 management software, Sun Studio and Java Studio developer tools. Green also heads up a variety of industry-standards efforts and open source communities. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Green last Friday at Sun offices in Menlo Park, Calif. to discuss the open-sourcing of Java and Solaris, as well as a number of other topics pertaining to the company, including the recent changing of the guard at the CEO level at Sun. October 23, 11:15 a.m. PDT JBoss awakens Hibernate with persistence API In the tedious world of middleware, the complexities of technologies can be difficult to grasp for the layman. But open source middleware vendor JBoss has put forth a straightforward description of what its new Hibernate 3.2 object/relational mapping software does: It makes its easier for developers take Java objects stored in memory, such as a customer object, and maintain them in a database. October 16, 5:00 a.m. PDT Sun: Java will work well with Vista Fending off reports that Java doesn’t jive with the upcoming Microsoft Windows Vista OS, Sun Microsystems is saying, Don’t worry, Java Standard Edition 6 will get along with Vista just fine. Java SE 6 is due in November; Vista will be out early in 2007. October 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT 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 DRM holds key to the digital home Web music stores have taken off with such gusto that now everyone wants to get in on the online media action, and the next battle ground is the digital movies and TV shows aimed at your living room. September 26, 3:55 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 Dynamic languages for agile enterprises At the 2004 Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Ore., Jim Hugunin, the creator of Jython, made the dramatic announcement that he would be joining Microsoft to pursue his latest project, IronPython, a Python implementation for the .Net CLR (Common Language Runtime). The timing was awkward for OSCON -- nothing chills the room like news that an open source hero is emigrating to Redmond -- but it was opportune for me. I had just written the keynote talk that I would deliver a few days later, at the Vancouver Python Conference; it ended with a plea to consummate the marriage between popular dynamic languages, such as Python and Ruby, and the dominant managed runtimes, namely the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) and the CLR. September 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Open source breathes life into Java There can be no doubt that open source has been a tremendous boon to Java. The JCP (Java Community Process), by which the Java language and platform moves ahead, seems to inch forward at a glacial pace. Committee review and approval are slow, thoughtful processes, but they’re conducted at a pace that cannot be wholly condemned. Java, after all, is the leading platform for enterprise applications and as such, it should evolve slowly, even when needs are pressing. Resolving one set of problems by creating another is never a good solution. September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Java resource management technology advances A standard mechanism for managing resources such as memory and network bandwidth in Java applications is advancing through the Java Community Process. September 1, 2:10 p.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 Does “built to last” apply to IT? Over the weekend, I bought an amazing antique chair: a fancy wooden office swivel chair in practically mint condition, including all its original cast-iron hardware. Although probably made between 1900 and 1915 (the patent date is 1897), it’s remarkably modern, with fully adjustable height, tilt, and back support, like the best Aeron chairs of today (well, its wooden surfaces are a tad stiffer). With any luck, it will last another 100 years and be just as functional. August 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun's Brewin toasts Java Robert Brewin is a newly appointed co-CTO of software at Sun Microsystems. Tackling the application platform side of Sun software, Brewin is focusing on technologies such as Java, developer tools, Web services, and Web 2.0. The other co-CTO, Tim Marsland, keys in on technologies such as Solaris. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill spoke with Brewin this week about Java, Web 2.0, and what Sun is pondering in the area of software development. July 21, 8:00 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 still not answering the call to open source Java Have you heard? Sun Microsystems is open sourcing Java. May 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun lays out Java road maps Sun Microsystems executives revealed at the JavaOne conference on Tuesday future Java technologies being pondered, including Project Semplice, which will enable Visual Basic developers to use Java. May 16, 5:13 p.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 Upstart startups Startups aren’t typical fodder for InfoWorld stories. For that matter, we don’t devote all that much ink to tech companies in general, preferring to focus on technologies, products, and strategies that help IT do what it needs to do. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT JSR 170: A standard content repository The databases underlying many applications aren't particularly suited for content management, due to special requirements specific to content management for handling objects such as documents and images. May 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Java to get Linux boost Menlo Park, Calif. - Java development is expected to get a boost on Linux at the JavaOne conference in two weeks, with partnerships anticipated for including the Java Runtime Environment with Linux distributions, Sun officials said on Thursday. May 4, 4:45 p.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 The hidden challenges of federated identity For years, companies have kept stores of identity information about employees, customers, and partners. These databases and directories are critical components of a company’s identity infrastructure. But as businesses push to create new products and increase productivity, they have discovered that they often must cooperate to provide the services their customers and employees demand. March 24, 3:00 a.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 Sun set to release Mustang Java beta on Wednesday Sun Microsystems on Wednesday is releasing a beta version of the next desktop version of Java, codenamed Project Mustang and officially known as Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6). February 15, 6:00 a.m. PST Mustang Java release jumps on Web 2.0 and scripting The next version of Java, code-named Mustang, is expected to feature Web 2.0 functionality in the form of expanded support for scripting languages. Mustang is due in a beta release later this month. February 10, 3:00 p.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 ECMAScript: The Switzerland of development environments? There is a perpetual debate in programming circles about the pros and cons of static vs. dynamic typing. I've always favored dynamically typed languages, such as Lisp, Perl, and Python, because my own coding efforts tend to focus on application prototyping, content wrangling, data analysis, and system automation. December 28, 3:00 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 C and C++ give way to managed code One important trend highlighted by this year’s research is the ongoing transition away from C and C++ -- the two languages that have been programmers’ mainstays for many years -- in favor of Java, and, more recently, C#. This shift might seem peculiar to some. After all, C remains the implementation language of choice for Linux, the Apache Web server, the MySQL database, and other key open source projects, which points out the fundamental position of C: It’s a terrific language for systems programming and infrastructure-level software, but it’s less suited to the needs of straightforward applications. November 30, 12:30 p.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 BEA buys Java tools developer SolarMetric BEA Systems Inc. said Thursday it has acquired Java tools maker SolarMetric Inc., a small, private company in Austin, Texas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. November 3, 11:05 a.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 IBM Gluecode to support Geronimo SAN FRANCISCO - IBM Corp. plans to offer support services for the Apache Software Foundation's Geronimo open-source Java application server starting Sept. 15, the company will announce on Tuesday at the Linuxworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. August 8, 9:27 p.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 Open source enterprise service bus With Java application servers rapidly becoming a commodity item, it's no surprise that we're now beginning to see open source implementations of other elements of the enterprise middleware stack. In particular, a number of surprisingly mature ESB (enterprise service bus) implementations have been announced in recent months. August 8, 5:00 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 Memory Firewall monitors apps at run time When it comes to foiling hackers, Saman Amarasinghe views the world in stark terms. August 1, 5:00 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 Sun, NTT DoCoMo plan new cellular Java platform NTT DoCoMo and Sun Microsystems have begun work on a new Java platform for cellular handsets. The work, which began last year but was first revealed two weeks ago at Sun's JavaOne conference in San Francisco, is aimed at refreshing the mobile Java platform for today's more advanced handsets and applications. It could also be promoted as a cross-industry standard, the companies said in interviews. July 15, 6:06 a.m. PDT > Application development > Standards |
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