Clint Boulton

Some fruits of the Web services lovefest between Microsoft and IBM were unveiled Wednesday as the firms published previously promised Web services specifications to help businesses share information securely. In conjunction with BEA Systems, RSA Security, SAP AG, and VeriSign, Microsoft and IBM said the publication of technical security specs and business policies represent the […]

OASIS Tuesday said its members have decided to hash out standards to automate the translation and localization process as a Web service. Common Web services partners IBM and Microsoft will be joined by DataPower, Oracle, SAP and the Localisation Research Centre to use Web services as the backbone to a workflow linking the tasks that […]

In a sign of ever-increasing cooperative competition, Sun Microsystems and BEA Systems Monday paired up to strengthen their Web services offerings for the enterprise. Santa Clara’s Sun and San Jose’s BEA will distribute an evaluation version of BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 with the Solaris 9 Operating Environment System Administrator’s Kit to increase the choices customers […]

With the buzz of software tools for developers hot theses days following IBM’s bid to acquire Rational Software, the Eclipse Consortium Monday unveiled three new projects and added thirteen new member companies. The first project centers on creating tools for the COBOL Language and is funded in part by a donation from Fujitsu. Dating back […]

On the same day software tools group Eclipse announced new projects and members, Microsoft Corp. unveiled Web Services Enhancements 1.0 (WSE) to support the latest specifications to make it easier for Visual Studio .NET developers to complete projects. The Redmond, Wash. software giant said Monday its new WSE support WS-Security, WS-Routing and WS-Attachments, and works […]

With the promise of another year around the corner, research firms are caught between wrapping up what has come before and looking ahead to what will be. Analysts at XML and Web services consultancy ZapThink Friday made the prediction that the native XML database (NXD) niche no longer exists as a separate market. XML.com defines […]

When IBM recently moved to acquire Rational Software , it touched off a frenzy of speculation in the software industry. While the deal had been pegged as all but a foregone conclusion for the last several years, the debate roiled among analysts and other software vendors, many of whom took different tacks in discussing the […]

HP got cozier with DirecTV Thursday when it announced a five-year agreement with the leading digital satellite television service provider to operate its billing system. Financial terms of the deal, believed to be worth millions of dollars, were undisclosed. HP will deliver and maintain computing infrastructure to support the operation and performance of DIRECTV’s billing […]

Sun Microsystems Wednesday tabbed Aligo, which makes software to power mobile applications, to provide mobile infrastructure software for upcoming Sun ONE products. Sun plans to add Aligo’s M-1 Mobile Application Server technology to make Sun ONE’s products better for its customers, who will be able to access applications, data and content from any mobile device […]

With security as a major barrier to the widespread adoption of Web services, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday recommended two specifications for an XML-based approach for securing XML data in a document which will be used by organizations who build Web services to help safeguard their payloads. The XML Encryption Syntax and Processing […]

Members of the Storage Networking Industry Association’s (SNIA) Supported Solutions Forum (SSF) said Tuesday they have developed a new storage interoperability solution that helps midrange storage users combine disparate storage systems in their data networks while safeguarding their corporate data with offsite backup. The culmination of testing by SNIA members IBM , MTI Technology , […]

Looking to expand hard drive storage capacity for home and office networks, wireless network specialist Linksys made its new storage device available to the public Monday. The EtherFast Instant GigaDrive (EFG80) is a network-attached storage (NAS) device that makes possible file and printer sharing for small office/home office (SOHO) network users. Out of the box, […]