BEA Systems is giving its Tuxedo transaction processing platform a new fitting and jazzing up the software with a more slick look and
feel based on service-oriented architecture
Lorenzo Cremona, director of marketing for Tuxedo, said Tuxedo 9.0 is
designed to help customers build new and repurpose legacy applications and
extend them to a SOA distributed computing environment.
“For developers, we’re providing the ability to integrate the two sides of
the IT house,” Cremona said. “On one hand you have all the new development
on Java
applications.”
“Tuxedo has the ability to integrate the legacy apps into mainstream
languages. We think that developers are receptive to that idea because it
changes their whole migration strategy.”
Cremona said Tuxedo 9.0 boasts better support for XML, which lends it more
punch for SOAs, as well as tighter integration with WebLogic Server and
BEA’s AquaLogic Service Bus for Web services
Tuxedo is a popular software program that processes transactions for
communications networks, ATMs and credit card purchases. The software,
designed to run applications based on C, COBOL, C++ and CORBA C++ languages that run more than
5,000 transactions per second, was created by AT&T Bell Labs in 1983 to
support that phone giant’s network.
BEA acquired Tuxedo from Novell in the mid-’90s and turned it into its top
transaction processing platform, gaining 2,000 customers in
telecommunications, retail and finance fields by 2000. Tuxedo has proven to
be a great revenue stream for BEA, which went on to create a leading
application platform, called WebLogic.
A new Tuxedo service metadata repository offers application developers and
administrators the ability to store
services parameter information on any Tuxedo application services.
Cremona said 9.0 is more secure, supporting Kerberos for single-single sign
on (SSO), and CERT-C Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) support for digital
signatures.
BEA Tuxedo 9.0 is available now. Those interested may contact BEA for more details.
The new iteration comes as BEA is overhauling its software portfolio, making
the middleware services more flexible to be transferred across the Web on
the fly regardless of the different types of computing gear involved.
BEA has good reason to upgrade its software. Foes IBM and Microsoft are
doing the same and most software makers are aching for a large chunk of what
IDC recently said will be a $15 billion Web services market by 2009.
