Jim Wagner

IBM officials Thursday discounted a report the company was in discussions with JBoss Group to develop J2EE specifications around aspect-oriented programming (AOP) to counter Microsoft’s .NET framework popularity. “They’re working on a project, we’re working on a project,” said Laurie Friedman, an IBM spokesperson. “We are in fact investing in aspect-oriented programming, because we think […]

Weaving a Web services web into its content management software, Interwoven 6, Interwoven officials announced the inclusion of .NET support in its developer toolkit. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company is one of a handful who have tied its client-based content management software into the two main Web services frameworks: Microsoft’s .NET and Sun Microsystem’s J2EE . […]

Going all or nothing, Mercury Interactive Corp. executives earlier this week rolled out its business technology optimization (BTO) product suite. The announcement signals the company’s new focus and direction on business application optimization, a buzzword already long-familiar in the industry and one software companies are looking at to drive software sales. Slowly, best-of-breed software solutions […]

Sluggish sales receipts in 2001 and 2002 mean bad news for software companies today, but according to an IBM report released Tuesday night, the next couple years will see a resurgence in IT spending in key areas. The “2003 Retail CIO Outlook” shows IT spending is going to continue its incremental pace in 2003, with […]

VeriSign executives came out Tuesday explaining to the public its support for the controversial SiteFinder service and insistence it is a benefit to end users. The public statement is a followup to a rather terse open letter sent to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Monday afternoon, saying it was “premature” to […]

The JBoss Group, owners of the popular open-source application server software on the Java platform, recently joined Sun Microsystem’s Java Community Program (JCP). Bill Burke, chief architect at Atlanta-based JBoss, said the decision to join the JCP came after it decided to join the group as a company; a couple employees were already in the […]

VeriSign’s recent move to quietly launch an immediate change to the way mistyped e-mail addresses and Web site queries are handled on the Internet is creating far-reaching consequences for domain name policies, Internet denizens say. Since the plan began to trickle out last week about VeriSign’s inclusion of DNS “wildcards” in the root server maintaining […]

BEA Systems Monday launched its Controls and Extensibility program, designed to let Java developers create and market certified controls on its server software platform. The Workshop Extensibility Development Kit, a free download, gives Java developers access to free code samples, tags, compilers, support, documentation and testing harness to make their coding experience within the WebLogic […]

Officials at Postini announced Wednesday the launch of its Postini Threat Information Network (PTIN), a real-time blacklist (RBL) they say is completely impartial and provides customers protection from spam, viruses and other threats transferred by email. To date RBLs have been highly subjective with offenders judged guilty before a hearing; getting your domain off some, […]

SAP has announced several enhancements to its supply chain management (SCM) software to improve warehouse management and is touting a return on the software investement of less than six months. New to the SAP plate is more a tightly-integrated RFID and cross-docking to process incoming and outgoing goods in the yard. The new yard management […]

Officials at PeopleSoft announced Tuesday it would begin bundling webMethods Web services integration tool into Enterprise One products for interested customers. The deal is a continuation of J.D. Edwards existing contract with webMethods (called webMethods XPI) to provide the healthy integration platform found in its product suite, J.D. Edwards 5. Enterprise One is the new […]

Enterprise Web application maker Vignette will buy real-time collaboration software and services provider Intraspect for $20 million in cash and stock. The deal is still pending approval of Intraspect stockholders and closing conditions, and involves Vignette’s up-front cash purchase of $10 million and 4.2 million shares of privately-held Intraspect, which comes out to another $10 […]