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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. 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 Google plans YouTube antipiracy tool for September Google aims to deliver in September a long-awaited and much-promised technology to combat piracy in its YouTube video sharing site. July 27, 3:46 p.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 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 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 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 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 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 Microsoft to link with Live for single sign-on Microsoft aims to sync its Active Directory with its Live Web-based services to give users single sign on for applications and services both inside a company network and on the Web. June 21, 12:35 p.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 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 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 DoD puts SOA into action When it comes to modeling complex business processes, the folks at the U.S. Transportation Command (U.S. Transcom) have a lot of experience. As the central defense agency responsible for worldwide air, land, and sea transportation for the U.S. armed services, U.S. Transcom has been developing internal process architectures for more than a decade. March 13, 3:00 a.m. PST SOA planning: Sizing up business processes As SOA goes mainstream in the enterprise, its success may hinge on a crucial meeting of the minds -- a mashup of talent that can uncap a font of creative potential. March 13, 3:00 a.m. PST CA's Project SOA tackles Web services security CA Inc. is readying new software designed to help secure and manage systems using Web services software. February 14, 8:15 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 Governing SOA SOA (service-oriented architecture) promises enterprises endless advantages: increased code reuse, reduced integration expense, better security, and -- the big payoff -- greater business agility. Whether you achieve those benefits, however, probably has more to do with your policies and procedures than the quality of your code. January 19, 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 2006 Technology of the Year Awards: The winners' list See correction at end of article January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST No. 5: Optimize network connectivity Most mid-level enterprise servers now have dual gigabit NICs -- but most of them don’t use the second pipe. Moreover, gigabit switch prices have dropped through the floor. With a 120MBps link to your fileserver, a number of 100-megabit clients can achieve wire-rate file access simultaneously. November 28, 3:00 a.m. PST WSIS - Net governance: Will anything change? Let's call it a clash of cultures: engineers who know the Internet inside out on the one side and government policy makers grappling to understand it on the other. November 23, 8:04 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 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 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 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 The spiral staircase of SOA Back in the 1980s, object-oriented programming was a state of mind, not the state of the art. Sure, there were OO languages, tools, and frameworks -- such as Lisp and Smalltalk -- but mainstream developers didn’t use them. Mainstream developers worked mostly in C. September 28, 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 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 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 Sun readies SOA Web services registry Sun Microsystems on Wednesday is announcing early access availability of Sun Service Registry for tracking and managing Web services. June 15, 4:40 p.m. PDT Cisco buys app accelerator Cisco plans to acquire privately held FineGround Networks, a Campbell, Calif., maker of bandwidth optimization appliances, for $70 million. May 27, 5:37 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 Countrywide Financial simplifies lending For half a decade, Countrywide Financial has seen its loan, insurance, and banking services businesses grow dramatically -- and its IT systems increase in complexity -- as customers, products, and markets have multiplied. To meet this increase in demand, Countrywide decided to embrace a flexible SOA approach, the long-range goals for which are a familiar refrain in enterprise IT: decrease complexity, improve scalability, and reduce overhead. May 2, 5:00 a.m. PDT British Telecom dials into SOA Telecom providers are competing tooth and nail to provide consumer and business customers with the latest and greatest value-added services. This smorgasbord of offerings includes everything from ring-tone downloads to hosted messaging, accounting, and other business services. An SOA makes perfect sense in this have-it-your-way environment because it enables providers to cobble together new offerings with those of third parties and integrate them quickly with their internal, mainframe-based billing, provisioning, and other support systems. May 2, 5:00 a.m. PDT Exclusive: CoreSV brings management simplicity to Web services It starts simply enough. First someone builds a SOAP interface for an internal system; then the next upgrade to your financial package sports a Web services API. At some point you wake up and realize that all these services need to be managed. April 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT SOA wrap: webMethods, Jacada, Systinet make moves In separate announcements, webMethods, Jacada and Systinet on Monday are bolstering wares for deploying service-oriented architectures, focusing on business processes, composite applications, and governance. April 18, 12:01 a.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 InfoWorld CTO 25: Brent Carlson Back in 2000, when software reuse was widely dismissed as a nice but impractical idea, Brent Carlson had the vision to co-found a company devoted to the concept. LogicLibrary and its product Logidex help enterprises identify and understand the software development assets they already have. This means locating and making sense of thousands of applications, components, database tables, design patterns, application frameworks, and other dispersed application-development building blocks so that the right ones can be leveraged effectively. Logidex also provides tools for governing the production and consumption of those assets and delivering them to the developer inside an integrated development. “There are a lot of challenges to getting governance right,” Carlson says. “You can’t define one model and expect every enterprise to adapt. Every organization has different rules and good reasons for those rules.” April 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT AmberPoint touts graphics in SOA management pack Amberpoint is enhancing graphical capabilities in its management system for SOAs (service-oriented architectures) and Web services. March 28, 12:01 a.m. PST 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 SOA Software gains messaging technology SOA Software, formerly Digital Evolution, on Monday is announcing its acquisition of ThoughtDigital, which will add event-based reliable messaging to the SOA Software product line. March 14, 6:00 a.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 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 The best products of 2004 Hardware and Software Platforms December 30, 3:00 p.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 Systinet CEO sees three phases for Web services Thomas Erickson recently took over as president and CEO of Systinet, one of a growing number of companies focused on the Web services and SOA (service-oriented architecture) management spaces. October 20, 3:15 p.m. PDT Actional, Westbridge merge for Web services Web services management vendor Actional and Westbridge Technology, which sold security infrastructure for Web services, are merging to focus on what company officials call “SOA (service-oriented architecture) enablement.” October 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft, Sun, Intel push IT management via Web services Microsoft and Sun Microsystems on Friday are publishing a specification to leverage Web services for managing a broad range of IT systems including PCs and devices on a network. October 8, 6:01 a.m. PDT CA to name CEO in 30 to 45 days Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) expects to fill its chief executive officer (CEO) vacancy within the next 30 to 45 days, the company said Friday. October 1, 1:24 p.m. PDT Web services software vendors offer SOA package Web services software vendors AmberPoint and Systinet are now selling an integrated suite of software for service-oriented architectures, featuring products from both companies. September 20, 9:00 a.m. PDT Web services management vendors combine Web services management and security provider Digital Evolution on Monday is announcing its acquisition of former competitor Flamenco Networks, which has provided specialized network infrastructure for implementing SOAs (service-oriented architectures). September 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT What about performance? The five challenges highlighted in this article reflect trade-offs intrinsic to the distributed, loosely coupled nature of Web services-based SOAs. But skeptics frequently cite another issue -- performance -- as a particular weakness of the model. This criticism generally has two parts: the distributed nature of SOAs and the overhead of Web services protocols. September 10, 3:00 p.m. PDT 3amLabs delivers free remote access management tool Bolstering its lineup of remote access management offerings, 3amLabs on Thursday debuted three products including a free version of its flagship product, LogMeIn, that helps IT managers locate and manage remote access products. September 2, 10:00 a.m. PDT IT Myth 6: IT doesn't scale At one time or another, nearly every kind of information technology has been judged and found wanting. The failures are often summed up in that most damning of epithets: “It doesn’t scale.” The reason, of course, is that at one time or another, for one reason or another, every kind of information technology has failed to scale. August 13, 3:00 p.m. PDT Digital Evolution links ID management to SOAs Digital Evolution on Wednesday is shipping what it calls its identity-based SOA (service-oriented architecture) management platform. July 21, 10:35 a.m. PDT Liberty Alliance preps technology demo The Liberty Alliance trade group announced several new members Monday, including Oracle Corp. and Sharp Laboratories of America Inc. The 3-year-old organization now boasts more than 150 members, with some of the IT industry's top vendors signing on for full participation in recent months, including Intel Corp. and Computer Associates International Inc. July 19, 12:12 p.m. PDT Microsoft, AmberPoint link on Web services development Microsoft and AmberPoint are hooking up to boost Web services development in the upcoming Visual Studio 2005 tool box. July 12, 5:00 a.m. PDT Rounding up Web services intermediaries WSIs (Web services intermediaries) are a unique class of middleware for managing and monitoring Web services. Useful for everything but the smallest of Web services applications, WSIs provide important features such as message routing, security, exception handling, abstraction, message transformation, and logging. July 2, 3:00 p.m. PDT Is BPEL the real deal? BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) is an XML-based, special purpose language that many hope will provide a standard way for specifying and building sharable business processes. July 2, 3:00 p.m. PDT AmberPoint scales its Web services management system AmberPoint on Monday is announcing an upgraded version of its Web services management software that can manage of thousands of active service-level agreements. June 21, 5:00 a.m. PDT Actional expands Web services management platform Focusing on SOA (services-oriented architecture) management, Actional on Monday will extend its Web services management platform to manage relationships between other types of services as well, including databases, Web pages, middleware, and non-XML legacy systems. June 14, 5:00 a.m. PDT IE is the browser that won’t die Microsoft TechEd 2004 is over, and it was one of Microsoft’s better shindigs. TechEd and Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference are the midyear one-two punch that helps me adjust my total technology perspective, not just my view of Windows and the Mac platform. June 11, 3:00 p.m. PDT Sonic tacks on high availability to integration suite Focusing on availability of application services, Sonic Software on Tuesday announced it is shipping Sonic Business Integration Suite 5.5, which utilizes the company’s “Continuous Availability Architecture” in development of service-oriented architectures. June 8, 4:41 p.m. PDT CA updates WSDM Computer Associates cranked up its Web services effort, edged into the hosted-software fray, and released a new tool for managing wireless networks at its CAWorld conference last week. May 28, 3:00 p.m. PDT BEA announces Liquid Computing Intense speculation about a secret BEA project code-named Sierra ended last week when CEO Alfred Chuang used the company's eWorld forum to give the initiative a real name: Liquid Computing. An amalgam of current and future BEA technologies centering on Web services and SOA (service-oriented architecture), Liquid Computing is basically BEA's answer to IBM's On Demand initiative. May 28, 3:00 p.m. PDT TechEd drills into IT challenges Microsoft trained its focus on concrete challenges facing IT at its TechEd 2004 conference last week, rolling out products designed to enhance security, productivity, and integration. May 28, 3:00 p.m. PDT WebSideStory files for $57.5 million IPO Web site analytics company WebSideStory Inc. added its name Thursday to the growing list of tech companies planning to go public, filing registration papers to raise up to $57.5 million through an IPO (initial public offering). May 27, 12:25 p.m. PDT BEA shining up Diamond release of WebLogic Platform SAN FRANCISCO -- Continuing its focus on service-oriented architectures (SOAs), BEA Systems is mapping out the next version of its WebLogic Platform product suite, code named Diamond. May 27, 9:10 a.m. PDT Project Beehive has BEA pondering Eclipse, NetBeans SAN FRANCISCO -- BEA Systems' decision to offer its WebLogic Workshop run-time framework under an open source format, through its Project Beehive effort, may prompt the company to reconsider its current stance of not participating in either the NetBeans or Eclipse open source tools programs, said BEA's Cornelius Willis, vice president of developer marketing May 26, 5:15 a.m. PDT TechEd: Microsoft to kill 'Kodiak' code name SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft will dump its "Kodiak" code-name that had been tagged to the next generation release of Exchange Server, instead shifting strategy to release individual improvements as they are ready, according to company executives here at TechEd 2004. May 25, 10:00 a.m. PDT CA dips toe in hosted services pool LAS VEGAS - Computer Associates International Inc. edged into the hosted software market Monday, making the latest version of its Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) software available as a managed service. May 24, 3:53 p.m. PDT Cape Clear, CA hop on The enterprise BUS At CA World on Monday, Cape Clear Software announced its intention to integrate its Business Integration Suite with Computer Associates International's Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) in hopes of providing a richer environment for helping create and manage a services-oriented enterprise. May 24, 2:11 p.m. PDT Blue Titan orchestrates Web services The label “Web services management,” which gained currency a couple of years ago, never did justice to the ambitions of the key players in the field. For Frank Martinez, Blue Titan’s chairman and CTO, the goal was and is to support “SOA [service-oriented architecture] in the large.” How large? Martinez says, “We’re talking hundreds of endpoints, hundreds to many hundreds of contracts, tens of millions of messages over the wire, and a new class of process-centric composite applications.” May 21, 3:00 p.m. PDT Systinet, Actional hail Web services tools Systinet and Actional are boosting their respective Web services wares, and both vendors are adopting an increased focus on SOAs (service-oriented architectures) and management. May 17, 5:00 a.m. PDT Feds jump online integration hurdles Can services-oriented architectures help government agencies provide better self-service? In the race to provide online government self-service, integration is one of the biggest roadblocks. Most governments are heavily invested in custom legacy applications. Linking Web-based self-service applications to those systems is difficult for any organization, but for government agencies, the problem is compounded. May 14, 3:00 p.m. PDT > Web services |
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