Once a lone voice in the wilderness extolling the virtues of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) technology, Sonic Software Corp. now finds itself with lots of company. The idea of ESBs is to offer a standards-based integration platform that brings together service-oriented architectures (SOAs), messaging, Web services, and XML with a distributed deployment model. Perhaps the most vocal evangelist for this technology has been Gordon Van Huizen, Sonic's CTO, who has played a central role in developing his company's flagship product. Van Huizen recently spoke with InfoWorld Editor At Large Ed Scannell about the still evolving competitive nature of the ESB market and where his company's technology fits in between the offerings of IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp.'s still off-in-the-distance Indigo technology, which will be stitched into Longhorn.
IBM's Systems and Technology Group has introduced its Virtualization Engine, which allows a Unix-based system to be partitioned just like a mainframe, enabling it to run as many as 10 servers per processor.
Sonic Software Corp. next month plans to deliver a new version of its Enterprise Software Bus (ESB) that is intended to significantly increase the availability and reliability of a range of different services interoperating over services-oriented networks.
IBM on Wednesday rolled out a series of software and services intended to help corporate users more efficiently create and deploy SOAs (service-oriented architectures) on their existing infrastructures.
With its acquisition last week of its long-time business partner, Candle, IBM believes it is taking an important step in moving its collection of On Demand strategies forward. Company officials believe Candle's assortment of systems management and monitoring capabilities for both mainframes and distributed platforms, including Windows and Linux, can strengthen its competitive stance against archrival Computer Associates International.
Microsoft will lug out the marketing drum for its next generation of products later this month when it kicks off its Worldwide ISV Road Show that will travel to 11 cities in nine countries.
One of the important building blocks in helping IBM construct its Systems Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Over the past year or so, IBM has been delivering products that would help constitute an ESB, but delivery of all of the necessary pieces will not come until late this year. A key figure in helping Big Blue put those pieces in place is Bob Sutor, IBM's director of Web Services Technology for IBM's WebSphere. In his current role, Sutor is in charge of overseeing the future direction of the WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio product lines.
BEA Systems bolstered its Java-based development strategy Monday, rolling out new software that allows corporate and third-party developers to create and deploy any Java or service-based application for its WebLogic server.
SAN FRANCISCO (03/18/2004) - Hoping to further entrench its credibility as a top tier Linux player, Novell Inc. on Thursday became the first vendor to ship a retail version of the open source operating system based on version 2.6 of the Linux kernel that takes advantage of both 32- and 64-bit platforms.
SAN FRANCISCO (03/15/2004) - IBM Corp. on Monday announced it has signed up the first software developer, SPL Workgroup, for its newly announced ISV Advantage for Industries program, a small company specializing in customer care and billing software for the energy and utilities markets.
Remotely Anywhere, a division of 3am Labs Ltd., has rolled out to beta testers a browser-based remote access and systems management product designed to grant administrators and users complete access to client systems.
Trying to add more muscle to its supply chain software strategy, IBM on Tuesday announced it has agreed to purchase all the shares of Trigo Technologies.
With IBM's acquisition of Rational Software, Grady Booch -- one of the original developers of the Unified Modeling Language and a thought leader in the area of architectural software -- has become the proverbial kid in the candy store. In his role as an IBM Fellow, Booch will help invent IBM's software future. He believes IBM's large cash reserves and a close working relationship with the high-voltage brain power of IBM Research will significantly quicken to market a range of technical innovations in the area of tooling.
SAN FRANCISCO (01/30/2004) - Microsoft Corp. on Thursday said it would not, "for now, implement modifications" to Windows and Internet Explorer as demanded by the patent suit it lost to Eolas Technologies Inc. last August, because of many requests made by its corporate users and business partners.
A small software startup will make its debut at LinuxWorld next week by rolling out a package it believes can help developers manage and mitigate the intellectual property risks of reusing and mixing both open source and proprietary software code.