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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the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta.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. Unified communications: Here at last? While Todd Sharp is driving down the highway between Charlotte and Atlanta, a new sales order triggers a lookup for the customer phone number and salesperson (that would be Todd) assigned to it. The system then polls Siemens OpenScape UC (unified communications) software and checks Todd’s presence status, discovering that he’s working remotely and available only on his cell. OpenScape kicks off a VoIP call to Todd’s cell phone and, using a text-to-speech engine, reads the sales order over the phone. It then prompts Todd to press 1 to autodial the customer. Minutes after the order arrived, Todd is thanking the customer from his car.  September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Web services-based app server upgraded by WSO2 WSO2 is upgrading its open source application server, which has been centered on Web services rather than being of the usual Java variety most common in this product space. July 13, 5:00 a.m. PDT Vendors seek unity on identity protocols Microsoft will participate in a meeting later this month with vendors and organizations that are backing several different identity management systems, an indication that cooperation between the software giant and its peers is improving. June 6, 5:10 a.m. PDT Garmin opens GPS data to Web site developers Garmin International has published some APIs for connecting to its GPS devices, making it easier for Web developers to write applications that use information about where consumers are located, the company announced Tuesday. May 29, 8:22 a.m. PDT Microsoft loosens grip on Windows Live APIs In an effort to drum up support for its Windows Live hosted services, Microsoft has changed the terms of use for APIs to key services, including Windows Live Search, to allow companies to use information and leverage Microsoft's back-end infrastructure for their Web-driven businesses. May 1, 3:52 p.m. PDT How to get bought by Google (or IBM, or Oracle) May is a month of rebirth and new beginnings. It's a time when flowers are blooming, trees are flowering, and young bucks lock horns in battle over the privilege of choosing a mate. Those kinds of biological imperatives are a bit masked in the super-refined atmosphere of Silicon Valley, but it's safe to say that betrothal is on the minds of many a young company these days. They're complex emotions, to be sure, but they find their truest expression in a question that flits across the mind of many a traveler on Route 101 or, if articulated, is done so only in whispers: "How do we get bought by Google?" April 30, 3:00 a.m. PDT CEO: Amazon Services losing money, but hopeful Amazon.com's Web services business isn't profitable, but it's growing very rapidly and the company expects it to make money eventually, Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos said Monday. April 17, 7:39 a.m. PDT Web 2.0 Expo draws startups, superstars If anyone knows about the potential of what has been dubbed "Web 2.0" it's the folks over at O'Reilly Media. Heck, company founder Tim O'Reilly himself coined the phrase back in 2003 to describe the emergence of a new generation of Web-based business models in the wake of the dot-com collapse. And if this week's first-ever Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco is any measure, the Web 2.0 phenomenon is on track to exceed expectations. April 16, 4:00 a.m. PDT Google plans worldwide developer day Google hopes to woo more developers to its Web services software platform with a 27-hour-long "Developer Day" on May 31. April 11, 4:24 a.m. PDT Yahoo opens up Web mail APIs Yahoo is opening up its Web mail platform to external developers, so that they can create plug-ins, utilities and applications for the popular Yahoo Mail service. March 29, 4:46 a.m. PST Cisco launches interoperability platform for emergency services Taking the concept of unified communications back to the old-school world where first responders and emergency service workers still use walkie-talkies and police radios, Cisco unveiled IPICS (IP Interoperability Collaboration System) 2.0 for interoperability on Monday. March 26, 3:13 p.m. PST Cisco boosts metro switches to 10Gbps Ethernet On Wednesday, Cisco Systems announced an upgrade of its Catalyst switching portfolio to include 10-gigabit Ethernet uplink and extensive PoE capabilities. January 31, 11:12 a.m. PST Portal aids development of identity-based apps A new portal has been launched to help developers who are building applications using identity management technology. January 23, 9:04 a.m. PST The smart business of diversity Carly Fiorina served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. After she was ousted, along with a $21 million exit package, Fiorina did what a lot of us would do if we had millions of dollars in the bank and some time on our hands: She wrote a book. In Tough Choices, published in October, Fiorina talks about rising to the top of a male-dominated culture. Fiorina spoke with InfoWorld correspondent Carmen Nobel for our upcoming feature on the issues women face in IT. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Brightcove lands $59 million in VC Internet TV startup Brightcove announced Wednesday that it has raised more than $59 million in venture capital that it plans to use to expand and solidify its lead as a provider of Internet TV content. January 17, 10:46 a.m. PST Liberty Alliance, Microsoft discuss identity protocols The Liberty Alliance, a consortium working on policy and technology issues for identity management, is discussing with Microsoft how to reconcile their competing sets of protocols for secure Web transactions. January 10, 4:38 a.m. PST Arizona Cardinals IT team has championship season It’s a pity that this year’s edition of the Arizona Cardinals is struggling so mightily in the field, because the organization’s IT team is putting together a championship season. Through a combination of teamwork, timing, and bold strategy, Technology Director Mark Feller transformed the brand-new Cardinal Stadium -- already a crown jewel of NFL venues -- into a high-tech wonderland. Working with IT solutions provider Insight and Cisco Systems, the Cardinals have succeeded in building out one of the world’s most sophisticated converged IP networks. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST AOL to offer Web APIs for AIM AOL plans to give external developers a way to embed functionality from AIM into their Web sites, another step in AOL's efforts to encourage programmers to use its popular instant messaging service. October 19, 1:20 p.m. PDT Coghead unveils beta of hosted Web platform Startup Coghead is opening up the beta version of its hosted Web development environment to technically savvy users in small to midsized businesses (SMBs) who are keen to create their own applications. October 11, 7:40 a.m. PDT BEA's 360 vision still fuzzy BEA jumped ahead of the pack last week, announcing the industry’s first native SOA platform, SOA 360. But the company left enough unanswered questions about the new platform to prompt one analyst to say there’s still much explaining to do. September 25, 3:00 a.m. PDT Technology with no past To the extent that it’s possible, I’m declaring today the beginning of recorded history in information technology. On this day, the phrase “information technology,” abbreviated IT, came into being as shorthand for electronic devices that aid humans in storage and sharing of, analysis of, protection of, and access to significant amounts of digitized content. Content? That’s anything you’re capable of holding in your brain for even a nanosecond. IT is not a department or a group of people. It’s a smart phone. It’s a room full of SPARC servers. A telephone headset? A keyboard? I don’t know. They’re new terms. We’ll work that out as we go. I do know that if we didn’t have such things, information technology would be inaccessible. September 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Office 2007 creeps toward release Microsoft Corp.'s Office 2007 suite is nearing the end of its long testing process. Microsoft on Thursday will offer a refresh of beta 2, the last external test release of the product before it is released to manufacturing, the company said. September 13, 1:15 p.m. PDT The end of VC? For anyone who doesn’t play close attention to developments in the SaaS (software as a service) space, the story of San Francisco startup Kieden might sound like a replay of one of those “spin straw into gold” tales from the height of the dot-com bubble. But Salesforce.com’s Aug. 21 announcement that it acquired six month-old Kieden and its technology for tracking Google AdWord campaigns was no act of drunken optimism. Kieden’s success, like that of Salesforce, is evidence of a new and powerful wave that’s just starting to break in the IT sector, as SaaS vendors create an environment in which countless smaller companies can quickly and effortlessly be born, grow, and thrive. Kieden founder Kraig Swensrud, now senior director of product marketing at Salesforce.com, spoke with InfoWorld Senior Editor Paul F. Roberts about SaaS, Web 2.0, agile development and how the rules are changing for startups of all stripes. September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT BMC updates batch management In a real-time world, batch processing has all the sex appeal of an old gray filing cabinet, but as Gur Steif, a product marketing vice president for BMC, said, "Almost every Web transaction we execute online actually ends up being processed in batches." So when you buy your Motorola Q phone with one click, the processes that order kicks off will crank some time later with a barrel full of others. August 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT Salesforce taps AppExchange startup for AdWord integration Kraig Swensrud and three friends who started Kieden are partying like it’s 1999 — for real. August 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT Amazon's pragmatic approach to metered infrastructure In March, Amazon.com introduced S3 (Simple Storage Service ), a metered storage service for arbitrary blobs of data. Recently, Amazon’s adventure in metered Web services continued with the announcement that its SQS (Simple Queue Service), which had been in beta since well before the surprise announcement of S3, has now joined S3 as a commercial offering. July 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT WS02 offers open source app server sans J2EE stack WS02 is offering an open source application server which, unlike that of its rivals, is not based on a J2EE stack but instead focuses on XML and Web services. June 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Andrew Nash During his 10-year stint at RSA security, Andrew Nash worked hard developing identity and access management technologies, wrote a book on PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), and co-authored several security standards. But one day, in the middle of an RSA presentation, he realized he was “bored to tears” and decided to focus on fresh security challenges better suited to an emerging Web services world. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25 The top technology slot in the enterprise has changed. Once, forward-looking CTOs and CIOs scanned the horizon for new technologies that would improve the lot of IT. Today, as many of this year’s top 25 CTOs can tell you, technology leaders must also focus on understanding the business goals of the enterprise -- and then craft technology strategies to meet those objectives. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT SAP's ESA strategy is on track Convincing users to abandon software they know and trust for technology that still seems like a vision to some of them is no easy task. May 18, 6:02 a.m. PDT Tech startups to watch Startups are back! or at least, startup fever is back. Scan the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and you won’t find any hockey sticks -- the level of investment in enterprise-related technology startups has actually remained fairly flat, hovering between $1.5 and $2.3 billion per quarter from 2003 through 2005. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Product previews Sonic Software revs enterprise service bus Sonic Software today announced Sonic ESB 7.0, an upgrade to the company’s SOA platform. It brings the Sonic Workbench to the Eclipse IDE; incorporates support for advanced Web services standards WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-Security, WS-Addressing, and WS-Policy; and introduces a lighter-weight approach to high availability through a new mode in the Continuous Availability Architecture, which the company says provides highly reliable and available brokered communications without the latency of persistent messaging. Sonic ESB 7.0 will be available in April. Sonic ESB 7.0, Sonic Software March 27, 3:00 a.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 Metered Web services Amazon’s new simple storage service, S3, burst on the scene a few hours before I had to hop on a plane. There was enough time to sign up for an account, download and run some sample programs, snag the documentation, and take the pulse of the blogosphere. But now, Wi-Fi-less at 35,000 feet, I can’t connect my laptop to the S3 data cloud in order to try out some of the ideas it has sparked. Frustrating! March 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Software as a service: Pay as you build, but at what cost? See correction below January 24, 3:00 a.m. PST Reining in SOA Want to immerse yourself in tech minutiae? Ask a developer about his company’s SOA (service-oriented architecture) plans. After all, service-enabling application components and combining them to make new apps is a complex business. Yet according to Contributing Editor Phillip J. Windley, author of “Governing SOA”, the most critical piece of the SOA puzzle calls more on social than on technical expertise. January 23, 3:00 a.m. PST Exclusive: Infravio brings structure to unwieldy SOA Although you could use e-mail, wikis, and spreadsheets to govern SOA, such tools leave much of the accountability and control necessary for good governance up to manual processes. Automating those governance tasks requires repositories custom-built to the task, such as Infravio's X-Registry 5. Without governance, many of the benefits of SOA will be lost. January 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Understanding UDDI The following is a basic step-by-step guide of how companies use a Web services registry such as Infravio X-Registry for their SOA. January 19, 3:00 a.m. PST The tolerance continuum I distinctly remember the first time I heard the term AJAX. I was having dinner with a friend who mentioned, in passing, that he’d been interviewed on that topic. “AJAX?” I asked. “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML,” he replied. January 11, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 Technology of the Year Awards: The winners' list See correction at end of article January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Do-it-yourself software services? If you’re a regular reader of my column, you know that I’ve been looking closely at the pluses and minuses of the SaaS (software as a service) model recently. SaaS solutions let you easily deploy standard functionality across a wide spectrum of users cheaply, as opposed to best-of-breed, on-premises applications, which cost more but offer product and competitive differentiation. December 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Toward swappable Web services Walt Johnson is an IT planner at California Independent System Operator (CalISO), the not-for-profit operator of the state’s wholesale power grid. I met him at InfoWorld’s SOA Executive Forum last week, where he described CalISO’s transition to service-oriented architecture. November 16, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft is stuck on the C: drive Bill Gates’ Nov. 1 announcement that Microsoft would soon be in the SaaS (software-as-a-service) business should be taken as a warning sign to the faithful: Something is rotten in Redmond. In the past, Gates has aimed his message at the consumer, both business and personal. He usually extols the virtues of whatever technology is being unveiled and explains to his audience how it will fundamentally change their lives (for the better, of course). This time he had nothing substantive to offer them. November 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Sabre's customer-driven SOA How does a technology-driven company with massive performance and scalability requirements -- and incredibly varied customer and supplier bases -- transition to SOA? For Sabre Holdings, the answer was a lot of in-house development and a complex interweaving of the old and new. November 7, 3:00 a.m. PST Verizon goes back to the workbench To overcome its SOA roadblocks, Verizon had to build an entire SOA operational infrastructure virtually from scratch -- and it has the patents to prove it. "As a technology, Web services are great, but today's standards don't have nearly enough operational infrastructure around them," says Shadman Zafar, Verizon's senior vice president of architecture and e-services. "You can end up with a plethora of Web services but no awareness of which of them are where and provide what function -- and most important -- which have the right kind of capacity and SLA to be usable by what and whom. The result is that SOA risks simply becoming a toy for the developer." November 7, 3:00 a.m. PST Exclusive: Systinet reins in Web service registries At the outset, I should admit a bias: I’m a UDDI skeptic. Still, I’m willing to believe that maybe I just haven’t dug deeply enough into UDDI to see its real value. So, I was naturally eager to review the latest version of Systinet’s Web services registry. November 7, 3:00 a.m. PST British American Tobacco builds SOA one step at a time For British American Tobacco (BAT), SOA success came early. The challenge now lies in determining how quickly SOA should be scaled across the enterprise, and for which functions. November 7, 3:00 a.m. PST Making SOA work Implementing SOA (service-oriented architecture) is one of the most daunting projects that an enterprise IT organization can undertake. Service orientation represents a whole new way of thinking and doing, one that changes the way developers operate and interact with the business. November 7, 3:00 a.m. PST New processes for Thomson Prometric "The biggest challenge we've faced in creating an SOA has been identifying exactly what a service is," says Christopher Crowhurst, vice president and chief architect at Thomson Learning. "Understanding what the business is doing, converting that to a set of services, and working out how to expose those services in a granular, extensible way so that you're not constantly breaking consumers' interfaces -- we learned that many people just can't do it." November 7, 3:00 a.m. PST Sun looks to boost Java-.Net interoperability Sun Microsystems, in a move to improve interoperability between Java and Microsoft's .Net platform, plans to develop and distribute open source versions of several industry-wide Web services specifications. The company is planning implementations of WS-* specifications in messaging, metadata, security, and quality of service. November 3, 4:43 p.m. PST The importance of interaction data The twin themes of this year's Accelerating Change conference were AI (artificial intelligence) and IA (intelligence amplification). On the AI track, people talked about making systems smarter. On the IA track, people talked about harnessing collective human intelligence. The tension between the two groups struck some sparks. October 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Effective description, discovery, and integration The Rodney Dangerfield of Web services standards is clearly Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration. UDDI don't get no respect. Its original conception -- a global e-marketplace for services -- looks, for now, like a dot-com-era fantasy. October 5, 4:00 a.m. PDT Web services registry aids both IT and business interests As the Sprint Business Services (SBS) IT group rationalized its existing Web services and figured out what services were still needed, it became clear that something else was needed: a registry for Web services. In a large company, having an SOA in and of itself doesn’t prevent various IT groups from duplicating others’ efforts, nor does it prevent customers from asking IT to develop services that already exist. A shared services registry, however, can do that. September 12, 4:00 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 Apache kick-starts open source Web services Go beyond a few basic protocols, and confusion still reigns in the wild world of Web services and SOA. Not just the towering, complex stack of Web services specs, but also fundamental questions about how those specs should work together and how Web services should be deployed and managed. August 22, 4:00 a.m. PDT IT's seven dirty words Remember the George Carlin routine “The Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television”? (No, I’m not going to print them here; if you’re really curious, Google ’em.) I got to thinking the other day that IT has its own set of dirty words. Try saying any one of these in polite IT company, and someone will hand you a bar of soap to wash your mouth out. My filthy seven: August 15, 5:00 a.m. PDT Neon Systems offers mainframe ESB Looking to tackle the problem of data integration in scenarios involving mainframes, Neon Systems on Monday is shipping what it calls the industry’s first ESB (enterprise service bus) for big-iron boxes. August 8, 4:45 p.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 Open source business process management A full-featured business process management suite might not be the first thing you'd expect to see coming from the open source community, and yet that's exactly what a number of projects are working to deliver. With the rise of SOAs, the need for a business-process engine to manage and orchestrate disparate services and EJBs has never been greater -- even for sites that otherwise rely on open source technologies. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT Rackable iSCSI system stacks up Meeting growing storage requirements is no longer just a matter of accommodating a few more files. Thanks to legislation that mandates the archiving of e-mail and customer records and to the increased use of multimedia and VoIP apps, storage needs can double or triple in a very short time. 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 Sonic’s ESB takes new approach to fail-over If the SOA movement had an official flag, on that flag would be a diagram of an ESB (enterprise service bus) — an open and distributed integration platform that provides interfaces to a wide variety of systems and applications and ensures reliable messaging among them. And if you dotted the flag with the logos of leading SOA vendors, Sonic Software’s would surely have to stand out from the rest. August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT Enterprise service buses hit the road See correction at end of article July 22, 5:00 a.m. PDT A bus by many different names The definition of the ESB (enterprise service bus) is often in the eye of the beholder, especially when the beholder is a major vendor with a product line to protect. While the vendors in our roundup were busy working out packaged solutions, the big boys were outside buzzing with promises and revised road maps. July 22, 5:00 a.m. PDT Starwood nears end of SOA revamp Every major enterprise applications vendor has hopped on the SOA (services-oriented architecture) bandwagon and extolled the virtues of using standards-compliant software to expose business processes as Web services, reducing the pain of integrating heterogeneous systems. But for customers, implementing an SOA environment in their own data centers can be a complex and lengthy process. One chief technology officer nearing the end of a five-year SOA project says the results, though a long time coming, are worth it. July 20, 10:40 a.m. PDT BEA presses Tuxedo for SOA activities BEA systems on Monday will release an upgrade to its Tuxedo transaction-processing monitor and intends to feature it as a component of an SOA. July 18, 12:00 a.m. PDT IBM, Microsoft to turn over Web services specifications SAN DIEGO - IBM and Microsoft are set to turn over to a standards body a key set of Web services security specifications they have been developing for establishing trust and exchanging data between partners. July 15, 12:40 p.m. PDT Iona to offer open source ESB Iona on Monday will unveil Celtix, an open source ESB (enterprise service bus) project that will be Java-based and hosted by the ObjectWeb open source community. June 20, 5:30 a.m. PDT BEA's Paul Patrick discusses Project Free Flow Paul Patrick is the chief architect for BEA Systems' Project Free Flow product release, which is set to be formally unveiled June 9. Project Free Flow is intended to enable deployment of services infrastructure for SOA, with an enterprise service bus serving as a key component. Previously, Patrick worked on CORBA technology at Digital Equipment. InfoWorld editor at large Paul Krill recently interviewed Patrick about SOA, Project Free Flow, and other topics, including the company's relationship with Java founder Sun Microsystems. June 8, 4:00 p.m. PDT Microsoft details long-range Indigo plans at TechEd June 6, 3:30 p.m. PDT Java Web services spec gets new name JAX-RPC 2.0, a planned upgrade to a Java specification for use in Web services and remote procedure calls in Java, is getting a name change to JAX-WS, Sun Microsystems acknowledged on Wednesday. May 25, 5:00 p.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 SAP revs up BI, CRM at Sapphire Continuing its push past ERP, SAP unveiled a plethora of enhancements to its newest application suite, mySAP CRM, at its annual customer gala in Boston, Saphire 05. In addition, SAP rolled out a new hardware appliance to support its NetWeaver integration platform. May 23, 5:00 a.m. PDT BEA eyes services vision BEA Systems, whose annual revenues have been mired in the $1 billion range for several years, is forging ahead with efforts to grow through provision of application services infrastructure and SOA. May 20, 6:00 a.m. PDT Lawson Software buys into IBM's SOA vision Lawson Software will work with IBM to develop new service oriented architecture (SOA) interfaces to its line of business application software, the two companies announced Wednesday. May 12, 4:28 a.m. PDT SOA Forum: Execs cite successes, challenges San Jose, Calif. -- Motorola’s three-year-old campaign to build an SOA has yielded deployment of 180 services so far, and is expected to expand to 1,000 by early next year, a company official said at the InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum here on Thursday. May 5, 2:15 p.m. PDT Enterprise grid group moves on Web services The Globus Consortium for grid computing on Wednesday is announcing three projects promoting the Globus Toolkit. The projects focus on Web services, bug fixes, and internationalization. May 4, 4:11 p.m. PDT Update: OASIS seeks clarity on SOA Help is on the way for anyone who may be confused about what exactly constitutes an SOA. May 3, 9:20 a.m. PDT Web services reliable messaging spec submitted to OASIS Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems, and Tibco Software on Tuesday said they will submit the latest version of the WS-RM (Web Services ReliableMessaging) specification, featuring protocol and policy assertions, to OASIS for consideration as an OASIS standard. April 19, 4:20 p.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Dan Foody “A lot of people are afraid of change, but I like it because it’s a new challenge all the time,” says Dan Foody, CTO of Actional. Good thing. Three years ago Foody saw the need to dramatically change the direction of his company, which at the time developed point-to-point EAI adapters to connect big enterprise applications from players such as PeopleSoft and Siebel. Foody realized that approach wouldn’t scale -- and that Web services would change how people tied systems together. With that insight, he helped refocus the company on systems management rather than integration and on customer business challenges. “Not a single one of the products we sell today has any relation to what we sold three years ago,” Foody says, referring to Actional’s current SOA Command and Control Platform. “My contribution was how to fundamentally change what the company’s DNA was.” April 11, 5:00 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 Iona heats up ESB market with Artix 3.0 Iona Technologies this week announced an upgrade to its ESB (enterprise service bus), Artix 3.0, featuring mobile support and new development-tools options. March 18, 9:01 a.m. PST SOA emphasized by IBM exec SANTA CLARA, CALIF. – SOAs (service-oriented architectures) are needed to accommodate the distributed nature of today’s businesses, said an IBM official at the SD (Software Development) West 2005 Conference here on Tuesday. March 15, 4:20 p.m. PST Service-oriented architectures To understand and apply the principles of SOA, you’d think we would have to agree first on what we mean by a “service.” To a surprising degree, we haven’t, but this is hardly the first time a powerful idea has been tricky to nail down. Definitions of “objects’ and “components” -- the ideas that powered earlier phases of software’s evolution -- were just as elusive. March 11, 3:00 p.m. PST Web Services Distributed Management spec approved OASIS on Wednesday announced that its members have approved the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) specification as an OASIS standard. March 9, 4:30 p.m. PST Sonic upgrades SOA offerings Sonic Software on Monday will unveil release 6.1 of the Sonic product line for building service-oriented architectures based on ESB (enterprise service bus) technology. March 7, 5:00 a.m. PST Patrick Grady's calculated debut How did Patrick Grady manage to build his service when others have failed? How did he draw in big-name customers? In addition to his forceful personality, 10 years in high-tech venture capital gave him extraordinary access. In the early development phase, for example, senior technologists from Ariba, BEA, BellSouth, CommerceOne, Genesys Labs, Palm, and Sun got together once a week to advise him on architecture. That lends some credibility to Grady’s claim that his platform will become “the global de facto standard for how you describe and discover and deliver and transact for services.” February 28, 6:00 a.m. PST SOA's killer app unveiled See correction at end of article February 28, 6:00 a.m. PST OASIS approves UDDI upgrade OASIS on Thursday announced that the organization has approved Version 3.0.2 of the UDDI Web services directory specification as an OASIS standard, the highest level of ratification. February 3, 3:45 p.m. PST BEA, IBM build out SOA services BEA Systems and IBM have both added to their SOA (service-oriented architecture) offerings. January 28, 3:00 p.m. PST BEA boosts SOA services BEA Systems on Thursday is unveiling a free Web-based tool to measure a customer’s “baseline” for pursuing an SOA (service-oriented architecture), and also is bolstering professional service offerings. January 27, 6:00 a.m. PST The best products of 2004 Hardware and Software Platforms December 30, 3:00 p.m. PST Former Sun, BEA execs forge grid venture Former executives from companies such as Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, and Oracle this week are formally launching a venture called Cassatt, which is endeavoring to automate IT operations, leverage commodity hardware and software, and govern network compute cycles in a grid-like manner. December 6, 5:01 a.m. PST On-demand apps demand a richer browser Can the browser meet the demands of on-demand? On-demand apps are by definition Web apps. That won’t come as a shock to enterprises because most of the latest internally deployed enterprise apps — besides a few client/server holdouts — already rely on the browser to deliver user experience. November 26, 3:00 p.m. PST Industry group might buy Commerce One patents A move is afoot to form an industry consortium to buy about 40 patents that are among the assets of bankrupt Commerce One. November 24, 4:30 p.m. PST Tools wrap: Sybase, Cape Clear eye data modeling, BPEL Sybase later this year will ship PowerDesigner 11.0, an enterprise data modeling tool for building or re-engineering business processes and aligning business and IT goals, according to the company. November 19, 3:05 p.m. PST Blue Titan adds reliable messaging to SOA tool Attempting to fine-tune its software for use in business-critical applications, Blue Titan Software on Monday is unveiling Network Director RM (Reliable Messaging), a tool for policy distribution and messaging in SOAs (service-oriented architectures). November 12, 8:00 a.m. PST > Web services |
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