TIBCO Software Inc. and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services and consulting firm, today announced an expansion to its strategic partnership that addresses the heightened demand for service-oriented architecture (SOA) software across all vertical industries (se...

Delivering the value of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) 'by evolution' to midsize companies, SAP AG today introduced the next version of its SAP(R) All-in-One solutions, with significant enhancements to provide midsize companies with greater agility in managi...

How can financial data from the Internet and from legacy enterprise systems be easily manipulated to bring that information into one browser where it will be viewed and reviewed under multiple lenses, bringing new information to light as different factors are added to the mix? This is ...

Mastech, a leading North American information technology consulting firm, today announced it has joined the Business Objects Solutions Provider Partner Program for software and service providers. As a new channel partner, Mastech will further enhance its value proposition to customers ...

XAware, a provider of next-generation software products that enable business enterprises to integrate business data in dynamic, fast-changing environments, announced the release of XA-Suite 4.3. The latest version of XAware?s flagship Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution featur...

While scripting frameworks such as script.aculo.us dominate the current AJAX landscape, there are signs that the next phase of development will be in the creation of XML binding models that will associate JavaScript functionality with XML structure.

Nexaweb's Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions enable businesses to deploy Richer, Thinner, Faster applications over the Web. Specifically, applications built with Nexaweb deliver the high performance and robust functionality of client/server software with the universal reach, no-install deplo...

The efforts going on on the Web right now are not a radical revision of the past, but rather a refinement and 'refactoring' that is at the heart of nearly every software endeavor, and it is this refactoring, far from obvious for those in the thick of it but profound nonetheless, that i...

David Linthicum, an internationally known application integration and service oriented architecture (SOA) expert, announced the availability of 'SOA Practitioner's Crash Course' - a three-day, custom-designed fast-paced seminar/workshop geared toward getting a corporate or government S...

Even though I write for SYS-CON, I've never publicly complimented them. But this time they really deserve a credit. SYS-CON will present the AJAXWorld 2007 Conference & Expo 2007 East in March. Usually, attendees have very limited access to speakers during conferences, and SYS-CON Even...

Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., provider of theleading standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web2.0 (EW2.0) applications, today announced availability of the latestversion of Nexaweb Studio. Nexaweb Studio 3.0 is an Eclipse-basedIntegrated Development Environment (...

Laszlo Systems is the original developer of the open source platform OpenLaszlo, and provider of Rich Internet Applications and services that advance the Web experience. OpenLaszlo is an XML-native foundation for building next generation Web applications that increase customer retentio...

Understanding the complexity of AJAX at the browser level is critical to refining and debugging rich AJAX applications that leverage Web technologies such as JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and XMLHttpRequests. Adding a third-party AJAX runtime heightens the complexity and su...

At the end of each year, when SYS-CON informally polls its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors, our question is always the same: where's the industry going next year?

HP is going to have to sit by and suffer more boardroom revelations - or at least rehashings - in silence. Tom Perkins, the ex-board member who ratted out HP to the feds and exposed its spying escapades to very public scrutiny, is going to write a memoir called 'Valley Boy: The Educati...

Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., provider of theleading standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web2.0 (EW2.0) applications, today announced the availability of NexawebPlatform 4.5. Version 4.5 builds on the success of earlier editions bydelivering the industry's fir...

Nexaweb announced availability of the latest version of Nexaweb Studio. Nexaweb Studio 3.0 is an Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that offers enterprise Web developers, AJAX, J2EE?/Java? developers and software engineers a standards-based, visual design environmen...

Most businesses have an urgent need for up-to-date, accurate information based on data from multiple data sources. It would be much easier if all your data were stored in one database so it can be queried as a whole, but this is rarely practical. In the real world, data integration is ...

DataDirect Technologies, a Progress Software company, announced the launch of XQuery.com (www.xquery.com). The Web site provides software developers and IT architects with a comprehensive resource for navigating the complexity of today?s application architectures via the power of XQuer...

It's been over three years since the JDBC Expert Group held its first meeting to gather requirements, requests, and pipe dreams for the JDBC 4.0 specification. In that meeting, we discussed a wide variety of topics, including performance enhancements, clarifications on the existing JDB...

Cape Clear(R) Software, the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Platform leader delivering on the promise of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Systar, (Euronext Paris ISIN: FR0000052854-SAR), the leading provider of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) solutions, today announced a strate...

Berkeley DB XML (BDB XML) is a popular native XML database. It can be accessed through the shell or within another program. This month I will show you how to use BDB XML in Java. BDB XML has similar APIs for all supported languages such as Java and C++, therefore the ideas presented in...

Based on the fact that the first working draft of the design principles for XML were published on 14 November 1996, XML guru Uche Ogbuji declared this week XML's 10th Birthday. Although the actual W3C Recommendation Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 wasn't published till 10 February...

Microsoft has added its Office XML File Formats its Open Specification Promise (OSP) not to enforce its patents no matter who uses it and what their business model is. It started the OSP in September with a variety of web protocols like SOAP that it wanted broadly used and tucked its S...

Instantiations, Inc., a leading provider of advanced software development solutions, today announced the release of GWT Designer(TM) 1.0, the first comprehensive tool for creating Ajax Web applications using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Shorthand for asynchronous JavaScript and XML, A...

There's no doubt that the computing era of Service Oriented Architecture is upon us. Everyone has caught SOA fever (is it S-O-A or SO-AH?) and most Fortune 500s are considering or have already implemented their first set of services.

Furthering its commitment to developers, customer choice and open, flexible IT environments, Oracle today announced expanded support of open standards for building, deploying, managing and securing service-oriented applications with Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware. Building on more than 2...

SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com) announced today that the first international 'AJAXWorld(TM) Conference & Expo' (www.ajaxworldexpo.com), taking place on October 3-4, 2006, at theSanta Clara Convention Center, California, will offer AJAXWorld University - Developer Bootcamp progr...

DataDirect Technologies, an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), today announced that an independent report from ZapThink on DataDirect XQueryTM version 2.0 concludes that the performance challenges imposed by very large XML messages potentially threatens ...

Looking at the uncertainty and volatility of market conditions today, enterprises are depending on new cutting-edge technology to have an edge over their fierce competitors. At the same time, they try extracting more value from their existing IT investments. Adding to these disparate a...

ThinkFree, Inc., developer of the first online office productivity suite, today debuted the beta version of its Ajax Edition software at the 2006 DEMOfall conference.

XML is a simple, flexible text format initially designed for large-scale electronic publishing. It is flexible, open, and human-readable, and can be learned easily. XML can also be generated, parsed, analyzed, and transformed easily. It's no wonder that XML has been widely used for ser...

W3C published new editions of the XML 1.0/1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.0/1.1 specifications for data exchange that include corrections for all known errata. W3C said that the strong foundation provided by the stability of these core XML specifications underlies the steady increase in W3...

GT Software, Inc. will host the next Integration Consortium Atlanta Chapter meeting on September 21 in Atlanta. Guest speaking that evening will be Steve Benfield, CTO of Agentis Software.

Canoo announced the release of ULC XML, a tool that allows developers to create UltraLightClient user interfaces from XML files. ULC XML is a free and open-source tool for Canoo?s Java RIA library. It is available for download at the ULC XML project site.

Bluestream Database Software Corporation has announced the general availability of XDocs 1.0, an XML content management system.XDocs 1.0 XML CMS is ideal for budget conscious organizations seeking solutions in technical publication, content management, web content management and E-Lear...

Washington Group International, a leading provider of engineering, construction and management solutions to businesses and governments worldwide, is using Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware as the foundation for its service-oriented architecture (SOA). With Oracle, Washington Group is better ...

SOA Leaders, the world's largest peer-to-peercommunity of end-user SOA implementers, today announced that it has madeseveral additions and enhancements to its offerings to better serve membersworldwide. SOA Leaders has added a new members-only online forum, whereend-users and those for...

webMethods, Inc. , a leading business integration and optimization software company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Infravio, Inc. for approximately $38 million in cash. The deal is expected to close during the month of Septemb...

SYSPRO, a leading producer of enterprise software for SMB manufacturers and distributors, has announced that SYSPRO CyberStore, a next generation e-commerce application, further extends the concept of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) to the application of B2B and B2C trading.