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Thank you very much for Peter Coffees fine piece imagining a world without Windows (“If Windows Had Never Happened…” Nov. 14). For those of us old enough to remember software vendors specifying which brands of PCs they would support their product on, Microsofts OS domination resulted in a much-needed standard. I have no problems with […]

While the aqualogic product has “service bus” in its name, BEA describes it mainly as a platform for managing services. This is probably a good thing, because as a straight ESB, AquaLogic Service Bus is merely competent and is clearly less mature and capable than more established ESBs, such as Sonic Software Corp.s Sonic ESB. […]

Don Box is an architect assigned to the “indigo” project at Microsoft Corp., where he is working on next-generation Web services protocols and plumbing. Box recently spoke with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft about upcoming technologies from the Redmond, Wash., company such as the Language Integrated Query project, Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication […]

WebLogic has been one of the premier enterprise-class Java application servers on the market for several years now. However, the product is facing more competition as corporations become increasingly comfortable with open-source alternatives. Click here to read the full review of Weblogic Server 9.0. 2 WebLogic has been one of the premier enterprise-class Java application […]

Intalio last week announced the acquisition of FiveSight Technologies, provider of an open-source implementation of Business Process Execution Language 2.0. Intalio, which calls itself an open-source BPMS (business process management system) company, acquired FiveSight for an undisclosed amount. The pair have a history of working together. BPEL, an OASIS standard, extends the Web services interaction […]

SAP quietly acquired a small data integration software developer, Callixa, whose technology SAP will use as a core component of its NetWeaver platform, officials said. Callixas technology centers “around helping customers with the overall data challenge,” said an SAP spokesperson. “The challenge is to get a unified cleanse of data, and in the same way […]

Microsoft Corp. is expected to make available to testers this week the first beta version of its Windows Live Messenger instant-messaging service. According to a posting on the MSN Messenger enthusiast site Mess.be, Microsoft will launch the first Windows Live Messenger beta test on Tuesday, Dec. 13. Testers report that they have received beta invitations […]

eWEEK Labs recent feature on the benefits (and complexities) of locking down Windows systems elicited many reader responses (“Lock out Problems,” Nov. 28). Most readers were in favor of the practice, if not entirely capable of implementing it at their own organizations—for a variety of reasons. Whats your system lockdown story? Write us at eweek@ziffdavis.com. […]

The decoding of the Sober worm, as I noted last week on the Inside eWEEK Labs blog, is all the demonstration anyone should need that the Net has become an application platform. Using time services to synchronize the local clocks of infected clients, and using pseudorandom address composition and communication to download and execute the […]

Hard drive vendor LaCie has teamed up with Mandriva on a bus-powered USB 2.0 hard drive preloaded with desktop Linux. The “GlobeTrotter” boots Mandriva Linux LE 2005, and is available in 40GB and 80GB models priced at $140 and $199, respectively. The GlobeTrotter drives feature an industrial design by F.A. Porsche. The devices have rubber […]

SOAtest Lives Up to Its New Name Finally, theres a product to help developers test and debug their service-oriented-architecture projects, Parasofts SOAtest. Actually, SOAtest isnt a new product, its just a renaming of Parasofts SOAPtest tool. But the name change is warranted—SOAPtest was always about a lot more than testing SOAP. SOAtest 4.1, which was […]

Lucent Technologies and Infoblox joined forces last week to provide highly scalable IP address management technology for midsize to large enterprises. The deal combines Infobloxs network appliance and management technology with Lucents VitalQIP IP address management software. Infoblox agreed to resell the combined technology through its channel partners worldwide. The joint technology includes support for […]