Fortune magazine has been poking around those court-sealed charges that HP bought Dell's printer plans from a former senior Dell executive before Dell entered the printer market and got a previously mum Dell to say that 'The more we look into it, the more concerned we become.'

SYS-CON Events has created a hands-on, immersive learning experience for all Web developers who want to know the how, what, and why of the tools and concepts behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), the popular user-interface approach to creating Rich Internet Applications. AJAXWorld University AJAX Bootcamp is a compelling, intensive, one-day, hands-on training program that will teach Web developers, Web designers, and other Web professionals how to build high-quality AJAX applications from beginning to end.

SYS-CON Events announced today that the 'Call for Papers' for the Real-World Java Seminar is now open. The largest Java developer event on the East Coast, the Real-World Java Seminar is a one-day event with three concurrent tracks and more than 30 sessions, and is packed with technical presentations delivered by the Java industry experts. Attending this event will allow delegates to take a fresh look at the architecture of the projects they are working on now, and can serve as a roadmap for their further development as Java professionals.

'The Java backlash,' writes Bruce Eckel, 'has been building up steam, and we're starting to see some fundamental shifts because of it.' Java has been around for 10 years yet applets are not the primary way that we interact with the web. Applets are not ubiquitous, and everyone got excited about AJAX instead.

The 'Real-World Java Seminar' is an intense one-day educational event that's packed with technical presentations delivered by the Java industry experts. Attendees of this event will allow participants to take a fresh look at the architecture of your the projects they are working on now, and can serve as a roadmap for further development as a Java professional.

IBM has announced its next generation WebSphere Portal, which includes comprehensive Web 2.0 tools and targeted customizations, known as business accelerators, that speed the deployment of common portal solutions while maintaining the flexibility desired by customers. Also available later this month is IBM Portlet for Google Gadgets that helps extend the value of Internet services to business environments and needs.

The Real-World Java Seminar is a one-day event that's packed with technical presentations delivered by the Java industry experts. Attending this event will allow you to take a fresh look at the architecture of the projects you're working on now and can serve as a roadmap for your further development as a Java professional. The largest Java developer event on the East Coast, Real-World Java Seminar will offer sponsorship and exhibit opportunities to the leading Java technology companies. Additional information on sponsorship and exhibit opportunities can be obtained by e-mail at events(at) sys-con.com or by phone at 201 802-3021.

Prolifics announced that it will begin distributing a brand new product designed byits SOA Practice Manager, Kadeer Beg. WebSphere Message Broker Extender for TIBCO RV provides TIBCO RV message handling capability, enhancing IBM WebSphere Message Broker beyond IBM WebSphere MQ messaging into a morecomplete brokering solution.

SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM became a 'Platinum Sponsor' of AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West. The world's leading Rich Internet Applications & Web 2.0 event is expected to attract more than 2,000 i-technology developers. AJAXWorld grew from a single track, one-day seminar, less than a year ago, into a four-day international conference & expo with more than 150 sessions delivered in nine simultaneous tracks, by more than 120 faculty members. The conference now includes the world famous AJAXWorld University's AJAX Developer Bootcamp, OpenLaszlo Track and Adobe Flex 3 Developer Bootcamp. This year's AJAXWorld Expo Floor is expected to display bleeding edge RIA technologies from more than 75 leading AJAX vendors.

BEA may ultimately end up being acquired, however, we think that path will at the very least take some time and won't be as easy one might hope. While we believe BEA Systems ought to be part of another company, we aren't sure the recent disappointing Q1 is enough to push the management team and board to engage in any serious discussions. Our sense is that it will take a concerted effort by shareholders to move any process forward

Remember last October when IBM sued Amazon claiming the great dot.com had knowingly built its business model on the back of IBM's patents? Well, the pair patched up their difference the other day outside the courtroom after Amazon paid IBM some unsung amount of money. There is now a long-term IP cross-license in place with Amazon remarking that 'IBM's patent portfolio is the largest and strongest in the IT industry' and that 'our license to its portfolio, and specifically to its web technology patents, gives us greater freedom to innovate.'

One of the biggest complaints we hear about many company Web sites, from customers and employees alike, is that it's too hard to find what you need. At IBM, with 2.5 million Internet pages and more technical content than any single entity, including the Pentagon, that's no surprise. A new IBM advanced information search and delivery system for the IBM support site (www.ibm.com/support) is expected to solve this problem. Code-named Digital Blue (dBlue), this project is a digital interface to IBM customers. The result of two years of work and five patentable inventions, dBlue is now available to IBM customers.

'SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for organizations because of the business flexibility it enables,' said Sandy Carter, vice president, SOA and WebSphere, IBM Software Group. 'Micro Focus' commitment to SOA provides their customers with a powerful way to reduce development costs while rapidly deploying operational, fully modernized applications.'

At its PartnerWorld 2007 Conference, IBM previewed the latest in next generation client computing with the new BladeCenter 'Workstation Blade', developed in collaboration with Blade.org partner Devon IT. The new offering will include the new IBM Workstation Blade and its associated 'eco' system of connection broker software and desktop device from Devon IT, designed to help customers host workstation environments remotely to significantly reduce energy consumption in the workplace.

Sandy Carter, vice president in charge of IBM's SOA and WebSphere strategy is a graduate of Duke University with a B.S. in Computer Science and Math and an M.B.A from Harvard University. Her professional associations include Member and Best Speaker Award, the Marketing Focus Advisory Council; Board Member of the Grace Hopper Industry Advisory Committee; and membership in Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Inner Circle. She recently won an Award from AIT United Nations for helping developing countries, is an active member of the Women in Technology Group, and the Lead IBM Partnership Executive at Duke University.

Chelsio Communications announced availability of its T3-based Unified Wire Accelerators, which enable server networking, storage networking and clustering on a single platform. The Unified Wire interconnect solution has been qualified by industry organization Blade.org for use with IBM BladeCenter enterprise servers.

'SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for organizations because of the business flexibility it enables,' said Sandy Carter, vice president, SOA and WebSphere, IBM Software Group. 'Prolifics' commitment to SOA provides their customers with a powerful way to reduce integration costs while rapidly deploying operational SI Solutions.'

Nastel Technologies, a leading provider of performance monitoring and management software for integrated applications and an HP Platinum Partner, announced that its Nastel AutoPilot WebSphere MQ (APWMQ) Smart Plug-in (SPI) for HP Software is available through HP, effective immediately. The Nastel SPI for WMQ has been certified by HP for its functionality and integration with HP Operations Management Software.

A couple of weeks ago I stopped by at our publisher's offices (SYS-CON Media) and they showed me our Flex book with the correct cover, but all pages were blank. Yesterday, I've got an email from them with the words, 'Yakov your book is ready, stop by and pick it up'. The guys from production department are really nice, so they've attached this video just to show me that the book is really really finally super-duper ready. Check this out (the video file is large though).

There's no question that Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) will continue to lead the IT and business agenda. After all, an SOA offers a flexible, extensible, and composable approach to reusing and extending existing applications and services, as well as constructing new ones.

Service oriented architecture (SOA) could revolutionize the way we think about IT. Why is that possible? Because SOA finally has the potential to make the concept of reuse real. Companies have been talking about reuse for years, but have never been able to transform that talk into full-scale reality. Now, you might be asking, 'How can SOA succeed where previous approaches have failed?' Because the standards, best practices and governance models have finally matured to the point where reuse can actually work.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has opened its 'Innovation Factory,' a Web 2.0 solution that manufactures ideas and new products and services for business growth. The first industry-specific version of Innovation Factory is being demonstrated simultaneously in Boston and Orlando today and was developed by IBM's High Performance On Demand Solutions (HiPODS) group working in concert with IBM's Telecom Solutions Lab in Austin, Texas. IBM Innovation Factory for Telecom is designed to capture the innovation process from ideas to commercialization, speeding up co-creation among employees, partners, software developers and subscribers through online communities.

IBM and Intel are holding hands now over an initiative to push virtualization on multiprocessors, saying larger, more expandable MP servers deliver the best return on investment. To prove their point, they've come up with a new virtualization benchmarking methodology called vConsolidate that runs multiple instances of consolidated database, mail, web and Java workloads in multiple virtual partitions on IBM's industry-standard servers that's supposed to simulate real-world server performance in a typical environment.

The AJAX for IBM WebSphere Platform Early Program is an optionally installable product extension for IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 6.1 and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition that offers targeted, incremental new features that can make Web applications running on WebSphere Application Server easier to use.

Kapow Technologies (http: //www.kapowtech.com/), the leading provider of mashup solutions for the enterprise, today announced the opening of a new office in Tokyo, Japan. Macaraeg, an industry veteran who successfully established several U.S.-based enterprise software companies in Asia throughout his career, has been named as Kapow's General Manager, Japan.

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) describe what the software development community aims to do; break out of primitive Web delivery to deliver robust functionality, exciting data visualization and 'thicker,' role-based and process-oriented user interfaces. These types of RIAs are now possible.

Organizations are scrambling to drive costs out of their IT infrastructure, while making it more flexible. They're looking for ways to avoid upgrades, and to use what they already have to meet new and demanding information processing requirements. In addition, enterprises are working to optimize their IT infrastructure to enable new business initiatives. A new video-based program from IBM and WatchIT -- a leader in on-demand education -- presents successful techniques for achieving these sometimes conflicting goals.

Pop quiz: what company both doubled its annual revenue in 2006 and closed a $26.25 million round of funding? Clue: it also tracked 290,000 downloads of its RIA platform and lined up IBM, Walmart.com, H&R Block, Monster, Barclays Global and Pandora as customers. Extra clue: it also announced project 'Orbit' which will allow developers using its platform to compile into Java Mobile and run it on devices.

Attune Systems, Inc., a provider of enterprise-class file virtualization solutions, today announced that it has appointed Thomas Wong as vice president of engineering. Wong joins Attune Systems with more 25 years of industry experience in both early-stage and established technology companies.

Seagull Software, a leading provider of high-performance solutions that transform legacy business applications into service-oriented architecture (SOA) assets, announced its acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements. With this achievement, Seagull Software's LegaSuite(R) software solution has been validated to integrate with the IBM SOA Foundation; a single, integrated platform that combines the industry's top application server and integration capabilities to help enterprises accelerate IT response to business change.

across the multiple applications and serversthat are often involved in composite SOA applications. Intersperse 6.0delivers a readily customizable user interface to provide a visual,role-based display of the wide range of information needed for managing SOAdeployments. And with this release, Intersperse 6.0 now supports Tomcatand SAP NetWeaver and offers expanded coverage for WebLogic, WebSphere,JBoss, and .NET.

Today at Lotusphere 2007, emoze, a subsidiary of the Emblaze Group , announced the introduction of the industry's most secure and comprehensive solution that enables corporate and personal users to send and receive emails to and from a mobile phone or other mobile device. emoze pushes emails, calendars, tasks and contacts to mobile devices as soon as they are sent, delivering secure, real-time synchronization anytime, anywhere. emoze software is free for individual users and simple to download from the emoze website (http://www.emoze.com/) , register and use. All emoze users need a data package from a mobile service provider.

SYS-CON Events (www.sys-c on.com)announced today that AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East(www.ajaxworld.com), which will take place on March 19-21, 2007, will attract over 1,000 developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of every stripe who will be converging in New York City toattend the most comprehensive meeting on the most significant technology subjects of recent times: AJAX, Rich Internet Apps & Web 2.0.

B2B marketplaces facilitate efficient search and transactions by offering services such as buyer/supplier and product/services searches and transactions such as procurement and asset disposal.

BMC Software announced today that two of its executives will speak at the SHARE User Event, February 11-16 in Tampa, Florida at the Tampa Convention Center.

IBM announced plans to create a Product Development Integration Framework to better link the design and development of products with core business processes, elevating product lifecycle management and development from an engineering-centric function to a strategic business process that improves executive decision-making abilities across the enterprise.

to IBM's manufacturing execution systems (MES) customers, among others.

willinclude real-time point-to-point video for expanded communicationcap abilities. This release will also include integration with MicrosoftOutlook and Office applications and support for Linux servers and Macintoshclients.

At Lotusphere today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announcedthe planned availability of the IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino 8 publicBeta starting this February. This is the final beta phase before theproduct's target ship date of mid-2007, concluding the most collaborativesoftware review program in Lotus' history.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has released details of asignificant project with EBS Building Society, one of Ireland's largestbuilding societies. The agreement, part of EBS' IT upgrade strategy, is toenhance its business flexibility by implementing a Service OrientatedArchitecture (SOA) which will enable the company to connect seamlesslyonline with thousands of mortgage brokers in Ireland.