Jim Wagner

In an effort to leverage new portlet standards within the Web services movement and within the Java Community Process (JCP) group that advocates Java, database giant Oracle has placed two new tools for portlet developers on its Web site. The move comes as part of an adoption effort behind the Java Specification Request (JSR)-168, which […]

After refusing to pay Sun Microsystems licensing fees for its Java test certification kit, open source consultancy JBoss Group has buried the hatchet and ponied up in order to gain a J2EE certification. The two companies had been involved in a long-running, acrimonious debate over licensing fees for the JBoss application server software. After calling […]

A federal judge Monday said he needed more time before making a decision on a restraining order request made by an ISP against e-voting machine maker Diebold. Getting approval for the restraining order filed by the Online Privacy Group (OPG), a non-profit Web hosting company and ISP out of San Francisco, is the legal first […]

Two Silicon Valley giants are getting together to cut into the enterprise server and processor sectors currently dominated by the likes of IBM and Intel . Sun and Advanced Micro Devices executives announced Monday the release of Sun Fire servers running on 64-bit Opterons (originally codenamed the “Hammer”). It’s the first step in what both […]

In a first for the Java community, JBoss Group officials said they would protect customers from legal hassles surrounding any potential patent claims involving the popular open-source application server. “We really want to show people that open source is an equal or better way to doing business as commercial software,” said Bob Bickel, JBoss vice […]

Agile Software Monday launched the latest version of its product lifecycle management (PLM) software for manufactures. In addition to core component enhancements, the software features a tool for keeping tabs on environmental hazards and materials that could mean millions in fines if they aren’t disposed of properly. The San Jose, Calif.-based software developer, keying in […]

The dot-com bust was unkind to ASPs . What seemed like a good idea for businesses in the mid-90s — outsourcing the software at a hosted location — turned into a nightmare as flash-in-the-pan providers suddenly couldn’t keep up with the bills. In many cases, the customer was stranded with their critical data stored in […]

The next time you use the self-checkout register at your local Wal-Mart or grocery store it might be using IBM technology, thanks to an acquisition by Big Blue Thursday. The retail stores solution division of the Armonk, N.Y.-based tech giant bought out Productivity Solutions, Inc., to bolster its point-of-sale (POS) product line for retailers for […]

Sun Microsystems is keeping with its strategy to sign tighter agreements with independent software vendors (ISVs), this time signing content manager Vignette as an OEM reseller. This is the second such arrangement for Sun and a software developer: in early October, the Santa Clara, Calif., company signed a similar deal with collaboration software makers Manugistics […]

The nation’s sixth-largest bank and Microsoft are teaming up to deliver an automated accounting and banking solution for small to medium sized businesses (SMBs). The partnership opens the door for many small businesses that can’t afford to purchase more expensive financial services enterprise software, such as SAP mySAP Business Suite or Oracle E-Business Suite. Bank […]

Investor reaction was mixed Tuesday a day after Oracle said it might have to drop its $7.3 billion hostile bid for PeopleSoft over the enterprise software company’s licensing/rebate plans. On a light trading day Tuesday due to the Veteran’s Day holiday, shares of Oracle had slipped by 13 cents during the day but recovered to […]

The OASIS technical committee drafting up a specification for the asynchronous service access protocol (ASAP) is mulling whether to rewrite its code to accommodate the wireless device community, or to press on and revamp the draft later. ASAP is an amendment to the simple object access protocol (SOAP), that brings into account the waiting times […]