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 Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite 11g, which helps customers and partners to lower costs, improve efficiencies and increase visibility into their businesses and operations. This next-generation business application infrast...Jul. 1, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 457 |
 Having used both sites for about two weeks, there is still a great deal I am learning to do with both Ulitzer and Ning, but a reader asked if I would do a quick comparison, so I will.Jun. 30, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,361 |
 Boulder, CO. Managed Methods Inc. (www.managedmethods.com ) the leader in SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) visibility and SOA runtime governance today announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance product JaxView 5.0. While providing full support for SO...Jun. 17, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 924 |
 Software AG is the world's largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. The company's 4,000 global enterprise customers achieve business results faster by modernizing, integrating and automating their IT systems and processes. As a result, they rapidly build measur...Jun. 17, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,023 |
 Are you still using expensive, proprietary middleware? Tired of rising license costs? Enterprises such as Priceline.com, Citistreet, and many more have decided there is a better way. There are compelling reasons to switch to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform including more capabili...Jun. 17, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 856 |
 IT organizations are constantly faced with the challenge to produce high-quality solutions with a lower total cost of ownership. With the growing recognition that open source software provides quality, stable solutions, migrations of existing enterprise applications to products such as...Jun. 17, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 543 |
 I just read SYS-CON's response to the recent attacks in Fuat Kircaali's Social Media Terrorists blog entry. I realized the email quoted at the end of Kircaali's blog was also copied to Ted Weissman of Lois Paul & Partners, a public relations firm with clients in technology.
If this...Jun. 12, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,951 |
 Do you believe that the day when programmers could focus on one language in their jobs is gone? Thanks to the ever-changing IT landscape and the uncertain financial times, contemporary developers are expected to work with a wide range of platforms, frameworks, languages as essentially ...Jun. 2, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,605 Replies: 2 |
 Even with these impressive first stats, Ulitzer users for the next 12 to 24 months will only be a fraction of the early adopters of tomorrow's social media tools. Ulitzer offers quality content under a managed environment. Google News keyword alerts are already contaminated with meanin...May. 1, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,113 Replies: 3 |
 As the complexity, immediacy, and scope of enterprise processes increase, so does the risk of failure. Comprehensive, proactive management of next-generation information processes and services is critical. Traditional application management tools are inadequate to manage next-generatio...Apr. 27, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 697 |
 Web Applications are now woven into the way that many enterprises operate, and the monitoring and management of these applications become extremely important to businesses that require nimble datacenters. The risks of failure rise with enterprise application complexity, immediacy, and ...Apr. 23, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 814 |
 In this Webinar, Gartner analyst Will Cappelli talks about how applications have become central to enterprise IT operations, and how complex architectures have led to significant challenges in monitoring and managing the performance of applications. As enterprise application architectu...Apr. 22, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 737 |
 A notable problem of Java Enterprise Development is its inherent complexity. The ideal solution for this problem could be the Model-Driven Development approach. However, for today, the MDD usage is still very complex. Fortunately you can enjoy the benefits of MDD without any pain.Mar. 27, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,441 |
 Tegrit Technologies is pleased to announce that it has been chosen to implement its Arrivos pension administration system for the City of Fort Worth (TX) Employees' Retirement Fund (FWERF). Based in Livonia, MI, Tegrit Technologies will help FWERF manage and maintain its retirement pro...Mar. 9, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,362 |
 The 80/20 rule has negative implications for traditional IT reousrce allocation, with the 80 percent going to maintenance, and only 20 percent to innovation. How can you innovate with SOA to flip this ratio on its head?Mar. 7, 2009 10:00 PM EST Reads: 1,825 |
 Think in terms of all of your IT assets as part of a portfolio of innovation, and it becomes easier to think of you to put them to creative use that drives operational efficiency.Mar. 7, 2009 07:42 PM EST Reads: 1,542 |
 IT budgets don't simply disappear, but it can be difficult to get what you want during tough economic times. But if you focus on the business value your chances will improve. You’re in a squeeze. How things ultimately shake out is not relevant right now, because you need to act right n...Feb. 20, 2009 08:30 PM EST Reads: 1,594 |
 Bull is going to push Cassatt widgetry - software from BEA co-founder Bill Coleman's start-up - to improve the effectiveness of data center infrastructures of large European organizations. It's going to hit on select lines of business, sectors like large government and local authoritie...Jan. 14, 2009 02:58 PM EST Reads: 1,856 |
 As a new year approaches we must prepare for new Internet security threats. Every year, new and innovative ways of attacking computer users emerge and continue to increase in volume and severity. To know where we are going it is helpful to look at where we have been. Finding trends in ...Dec. 29, 2008 11:45 AM EST Reads: 3,249 |
 Cassatt, the company started by BEA founder Bill Coleman, is redirecting its data center widgetry into creating internal clouds comparable to Amazon or Google out of infrastructure customers already have in-house. Coleman observed that most IT professionals aren’t comfortable outsourci...Nov. 13, 2008 08:15 PM EST Reads: 2,483 |
Gartner Magic Quadrants position vendors within a particular market segment based on their completeness of vision and their ability to execute on that vision. According to Gartner, vendors in the Leaders quadrant "have a full range of capabilities to support a range of portal deploymen... Nov. 5, 2008 04:10 PM EST Reads: 1,726 |
 Openadaptor is a software toolkit that may be classified as a lightweight Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solution. It provides a configurable component framework for connecting various systems and middleware implementations. In less technical parlance, the components are akin...Oct. 28, 2008 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,991 Replies: 2 |
The Infrastructure-as-a-Service model of early cloud computing providers has focused on making the hardware layer consumable as on-demand compute and storage capacity. This is an important first step, but for companies to harness the power of the cloud, it should enhance the alignment ... Oct. 25, 2008 03:47 PM EDT Reads: 1,607 |
Addressing the requirements of business analysts and IT, Oracle has unveiled Oracle Business Process Management 10g Release 3 (Oracle BPM 10g R3), a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. The new release allows business and IT users to collaboratively automate and optimize business pro... Oct. 23, 2008 01:12 PM EDT Reads: 1,658 |
 Watching VMware stock and its market cap spike since it IPO'd must have had Red Hat positively pea green with envyWatching VMware stock and its market cap spike since it IPO'd must have had Red Hat positively pea green with envy - so green in fact that it's gonna try taking VMware on b...Sep. 11, 2008 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 20,644 Replies: 1 |
 A standard from OASIS called Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) is used so portlets can be decoupled from a portal. In part one (JDJ, Volume. 13, issue 3) of this article, we introduced the relevant standards and specifications and then demonstrated WSRP's capabilities by consumin...Jul. 17, 2008 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,819 |
 SYS-CON's upcoming '3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo' faculty includes such distinguished speakers as: Al Aghili (Managed Methods), Alan Chhabra (Egenera), Andi Mann (Enterprise Management Associates), Andrew Conte (APC), Andy Astor (EnterpriseDB), Ariel Cohen (Xsigo ...Jun. 18, 2008 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 6,753 |
 From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown ...Jun. 10, 2008 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 98,322 Replies: 2 |
Red Hat announced that Cybercity has chosen to use the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform for system integration and middleware. The JBoss solution is expected to reduce Cybercity's total cost of ownership (TCO). In selecting an SOA solution, Cybercity initially evaluated Oracle Fusion, BEA... Jun. 4, 2008 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,430 |
 The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 24,789 Replies: 6 |
 BEA Systems announced that it was selected by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to join the solution delivery team for the Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) Service-Oriented Architecture Foundation (SOAF) program. CSC, in partnership with BEA, Raytheon and Sun Microsystems,...Mar. 28, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,615 |
BEA announced the availability of BEA WebLogic Portal 10.2. This new release solidifies the mission- critical enterprise portal capabilities and introduces enhancements designed to build more dynamic and interactive experiences. Numerous improvements are focused on developer and end-us... Mar. 4, 2008 03:30 PM EST Reads: 5,749 Replies: 1 |
 I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning: 'Because they can only give you answers.' Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would share with you what some of t...Feb. 23, 2008 02:45 AM EST Reads: 106,124 Replies: 14 |
Then suddenly at the beginning of December - after canceling a meeting at Icahn's offices in New York - BEA and Oracle are each marking up a draft merger agreement without any sweetened price being agreed - or even extended - and then without so much as a by your leave Icahn calls BEA ... Feb. 16, 2008 03:15 PM EST Reads: 3,183 |
Arcturus released Applicare 3.5, a significant upgrade to its powerful artificial intelligence based Application Performance Management suite. Applicare 3.5 adds many exciting new features including user extendable knowledge base, pluggable knowledge modules 'Knoms' framework (patent p... Feb. 5, 2008 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,829 |
 It said this morning that it had reached a compromise price with BEA and that the acquisition would go through after all, having been resisted by BEA, demanded by BEA's biggest stockholder, the dangerous Carl Icahn, and walked away from by Oracle. Oracle is going to pay $19.375 a share...Jan. 21, 2008 04:00 PM EST Reads: 14,889 Replies: 6 |
BEA Systems announced the release of BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0, a comprehensive enterprise service bus (ESB) that is designed to improve the integration process for enterprise-wide service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments. The solution is an SOA integration platform designed... Dec. 24, 2007 05:45 PM EST Reads: 8,309 |
 'BEA established itself as the enterprise Java leader in being the first major vendor to market with Java EE 5, and we're doing it again for application composition with Service Component Architecture,' said Guy Churchward, BEA's vice president of WebLogic products and a past speaker a...Dec. 13, 2007 10:00 AM EST Reads: 6,433 |
In keeping with the longstanding SYS-CON tradition of being at the very forefront of software development with all its online and offline resources, SYS-CON Media & Events jointly today announced a double whammy, launching both 'Open Web Developer's Journal' (http://openweb.sys-con.com... Dec. 12, 2007 02:45 PM EST Reads: 41,878 Replies: 1 |
 For building applications, BundleWorks includes ant tasks and command line tools to allow developers to build standard bundles for both custom and third-party applications. For testing, BundleWorks allows a developer to create and manage multiple environments to test multiple versions ...Dec. 5, 2007 01:30 PM EST Reads: 24,538 Replies: 1 |
