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BEA looks to new products for licence growth

BEA Systems is looking to new products to stimulate licence revenue and allay concerns about the company, according to its CEO Alfred Chuang. Read more »

BEA Systems acquires Fuego

BEA Systems announced on Wednesday that it bought business process management software maker Fuego for US$87.5 million in cash. Read more »

BEA lights US$87.5m fire under its SOA ambitions

Fuego has been acquired to give BEA's offerings a BPM boost. Read more »

Q&A: Borland's latest saviour

In the course of its 22 years in Silicon Valley, Borland Software has lived through its share of ups and downs. Read more »

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Can't J2EE and .NET just be friends?

The two Web services standards are now settling into their respective roles and the reasons for choosing one over the other are becoming clearer. But can they play nicely together? Read more »

Could application servers be overkill?

Cape Clear CEO Annrai O'Toole says XML-based services don't require full blown app servers. Oracle vice president John Magee calls O'Toole's claims "fallacious." You be the judge. Read more »

Do you need an application server?

If you're big on technology trends, you may be considering which application server to put in place. But the first question you should ask is whether you truly need one. Read more »

Sharing COBOL business logic through Web Services

What's causing the delay in the adoption of web services and what's all the hype about anyway? Builder Australia columnist Keith Mante investigates. Read more »

The seven deadly sins of integration

Software that is open, approachable and agnostic enables customers to cut costs and increase revenue and business opportunity. Does "on demand" fit that bill or is it just the next fad? Read more »

Open source Java route yields big savings

What do you do when the heterogeneity of your IT infrastructure and your OS-specific legacy deployments are standing in the way of true progress? Read more »

Java jams: five IDEs tested

We put five of the most popular Java Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) up against each other. Find out which tool is tailor made for your development requirements. Read more »

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