What a week. It's amazing how much news you can make by throwing around a few billion dollars. We found that out by observing the sound (though maybe not the fury) of SAP and Oracle placing billion dollar bets on the future outlines of the enterprise software industry. In the last week or so, Oracl...
Oracle announced it wants to acquire BEA Systems, a provider of Web-based business productivity and integration software, for $6.7 billion, or $17 per share in cash. BEA has already rejected the offer, according to news accounts, saying that Oracle's bid seriously undervalues the company's overall w...
SAP has announced it will acquire Business Objects for about $6.78 billion. The French business intelligence vendor is one of the few assets on the market able to go head to head with Hyperion, which Oracle bought earlier this year for $3.3 billion. The acquisition will allow SAP to move into the BI...
Making use of distributed computing, such as service-oriented architecture and integrated Web application services, means greater complexity and security design challenges for organizations and IT managers. Open standards play a big role in developing and making better use of efficient and effective...
Software designers and developers are being challenged to build efficient security measures into their project work as computing is increasingly distributed via Web application services and service-oriented architecture. Research recently conducted by the Ponemon Institute and CipherOptics found tha...
In a move heavy with symbolism, Sun Microsystems said Thursday it would change the ticker symbol under which its stock trades on the Nasdaq to "JAVA." Sun will replace its current ticker of SUNW with the new symbol, which is also the name of the widely used software for handling Web applications tha...
Trick question: When taking a look at an open source content management application, companies chose to test that application using which operating system? If you guessed Microsoft Windows, you're right. That's according to the findings of a recent survey conducted by Alfresco Software. The company,...
Bringing services-oriented architectures to life is a lot like delivering a baby -- it requires a copious nurturing, understanding, labor and ultimately ... pushing. So far, the job openings for SOA midwives outstrip the available pool of talent. These are great jobs: transforming companies and indu...
Big news on the SOA/open source front in recent days: A large, European concern that has had an SOA environment in production for five years is apparently spinning it off to an open source community. A new proposal for an SOA framework runtime project within Eclipse.org includes word that Deutsche P...
As Red Hat and its JBoss unit ramp up their SOA (service-oriented architectures) offerings and capabilities, they are re-emerging as a powerful mischief-maker to the established commercial vendors -- this time on the subject of data lifecycle in the age of SOA. However, there soon could be much more...
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