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IBM brings relational XML tools to mainframes
IBM has made its Viper engine available on mainframes, and the company predicts a bright future for Viper in driving through service-oriented architecture environments. Read more »
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 »
SOA arguments 'drowning in alphabet soup'
A report indicates that arguments about the benefits of SOAs are not be in communicated to those at the top of businesses that could use them. 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 »
Oracle packs SOA in PeopleSoft tools upgrade
Oracle on Monday in the US launched PeopleTools 8.48, an upgrade designed to offer Web services functionality and serve as an entry point into Oracle's Fusion Middleware. Read more »
XML spec moves ahead despite gripes
The World Wide Web Consortium has been accused of favouring IBM through its decision to advance XML 1.1 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 »
Linux use doubles in financial organisations
Growing support for Linux has been the single biggest technology change in financial organisations over the past twelve months, say researchers. Read more »
Jan Baan launches Web services firm
Jan Baan, best known as the driving force behind business software maker Baan, has shifted his attention to Web services with the launch of a new company, Cordys. Read more »
Sun's next goal: A Linux ecosystem
Sun Microsystems' ambitions have grown another size larger. Read more »
Features (16)
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 »
Legacy apps and .NET
Maximise your investments by using legacy apps in conjunction with the .NET Framework. Use Host Integration Server to integrate your old apps with .NET to save money. Read more »
SOA do's and don'ts
SOA is commonly acknowledged as the most cost-effective and efficient way to integrate disparate information systems together. Here are some tips from Builder AU to get you started. Read more »
Programming for Cell
As the Cell has seven usable cores and some exotic memory features, it can offer more parallelism than other chips in the marketplace but it comes at the cost of ease of programming. We discuss the challenges faced by this difficult yet highly parallel architecture. Read more »
IBM lights up mainframe's 40th birthday
Forty years after Big Blue introduced the S/360, the zaftig systems are still going strong and finding a way to fit into 21st-century computing. Read more »
Agile Modelling with IBM's Scott Ambler
You may already be doing agile modelling and not realise it according to Scott Ambler, head of Agile Development at Rational Software. Read more »
Top five problems in IT business: Rational VP
We talked to Hayden Lindsay, IBM Rational's vice president of enterprise tools and compilers about enterprise modernisation. He identified five key factors that are inhibiting business responsiveness. Read more »
Despite its aging design, the x86 is still in charge
With most of the world's software written with x86 in mind, it's doubtful that any future chip architecture would be able to displace it. Read more »
Thinking more like Booch
I'd be the first one to say that talking about the future of software development and the computing world is a difficult endeavour. Read more »
Digging code: Software archaeology
At first glance, business software developers have little in common with Indiana Jones. But the emerging field of software archaeology applies some of the same skills, if not the dashing adventure. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.