Tangosol has introduced a series of new capabilities in Tangosol Coherence designed to enhance applications running on BEA WebLogic Portal.

IBM alphaWorks has released Real Interfaces Visualizer - a framework for three-dimensional UIs. According to the company, working in three-dimensional (3D) space enhances the user interface (UI) by breaking the limits of the two-dimensional world and leaving one with many more visualization possibilities as well as exciting new methods of computerized interaction. The expressive power of UI increases by adding this third dimension, but it can greatly increase the complexity of assembling such 3D enhancements and adding them to the user interface.

This year it looks certain that a new participation record will be set, more than 16,000 votes have already been recorded, as more than 20,000 SYS-CON Media readers are estimated to cast their votes in this year's Readers' Choice Awards.

Based on core open source technology from the J2EE-certiefied Apache Geronimo application server, WAS CE and related subscription support provide a flexible and affordable alternative to traditional commercial software offerings and can help customers begin to deploy a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Kapow Technologies, a leading web integration platform provider, announced Glenn Hasen as CEO. Operating out of Kapow's newly established headquarters in the Silicon Valley, Hasen will lead the company's rapid expansion into key domestic and international markets.

IBM has announced that according to IDC, IBM is the leading server vendor in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India, based on customer revenue for the second quarter of 2005

IBM has a broad portfolio of SOA solutions that enable clients to more effectively model, assemble, deploy and manage business processes. , SOA services and consulting. As part of its SOA Business Partner initiative, IBM now has over 150 partners, which can benefit from the new deployment model the DataPower acquisition provides. Data centers can also benefit from DataPower's XML and security technology, including its product designed for IBM eServer zSeries mainframe integration.

A new IDC report ranks IBM WebSphere Portal as the number one application environment in the Enterprise Portal market. IBM has announced new customers in this market as well.

Wily Technology, the leader in Enterprise Application Management, announced Wily 6, the latest generation of the most advanced solution for monitoring and improving the availability and performance of business-critical web applications.

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (Brocade(R)) , the leading provider of infrastructure for Storage Area Networks (SANs), today announced that the industry's first 4 Gbit/sec capable SAN director is now qualified for FICON(R) connectivity at 2 Gbit/sec to networked storage in IBM(R) zSystem 9-109 and eServer(TM) zSeries(R) computing environments. Enterprises that rely on IBM mainframe systems for their most critical data and applications can now benefit from the higher performing enterprise SAN solutions for FICON and open system Fibre Channel servers and storage.

Do you recall BEA's Alfred S. Chuang giving interviews to the trade press as recent as early last year and swearing to God that BEA customers did not give a rat's dudu about Eclipse? Then what happened? BEA proudly announced their membership to Eclipse.org this year.

Strategic Computer Solutions, a leading IBM Premier and On Demand Business Partner, has launched a new Security and Networking Practice to complement its broad portfolio of software and hardware solutions with full-service security solutions and consulting services.

MQSoftware AppWatch configuration tool and StatWatch transaction tracking and auditing tool will integrate with Introscope to provide companies with a comprehensive solution to effectively manage and monitor the IBM WebSphere MQ family of products, the companies say.

entimo AG, a leading company providing manufacturers of the pharmaceutical and crop science industries with high quality e-business Research & Development (eR&D) products and solutions, as well as custom IT solutions for the regulatory authorities, announced it has achieved industry optimized in IBM's PartnerWorld Industry Networks for healthcare and life science.

Integrated Development Enterprise, Inc. (IDe), the leading provider of product portfolio management (PPM) solutions, announced its industry optimized status with its new product suite IDeWeb in IBM's PartnerWorld Industry Networks.

Oracle and IBM have reached agreement on an initiative to enable IBM's WebSphere products to be an additional run time environment for 'Project Fusion,' the Oracle engineering effort underway to fuse the 'best of' functionality across all Oracle applications into a single, standards-based product suite.

Vormetric Inc., a leading provider ofsecurity solutions for protecting sensitive information, announced todaythat CoreGuard Information Protection System has achieved Ready for IBM DB2Software status. With this designation Vormetric customers can be assuredthat their CoreGuard solution interoperates with their IBM DB2 UniversalDatabase software. Together, these solutions from IBM and Vormetric helpcustomers to protect their sensitive information from unauthorized accessand viewing.

ILOG today announced it is the first Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) software vendor to offer integration with the new IBM WebSphere Process Server version 6.0, announced yesterday by IBM.

IBM is embracing SOA...in a bear hug. In a teleconference fronted by Steve Mills, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, IBM Software Group and the General Manager of WebSphere, Robert LeBlanc, it was manifestly apparent that the company - which considers itself the world's leading provider of technologies that support Business Integration and Business Process Integration - is not looking over its shoulder, not at Oracle nor anyone else. And IBM Global Services turns out to be the secret ingredient of Blue's software portfolio 'realignment.'

IBM today announced new software, services andan expanded partner initiative to help clients manage business processes bydeploying a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

IBM announced it has finalized the agreement to acquire DWL, a privately held company based in Atlanta and Toronto. Financial terms were not disclosed. With this acquisition, IBM will provide clients with customer data integration software that enables a single, integrated view of customer information spread across multiple product and business silos.

A new report from IDC concludes that IBM Global Services is a leading 'global market maker' for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), demonstrating IBM's leadership in helping clients become on demand businesses, with business processes that are integrated across their company, as well as externally with key partners, suppliers and customers.

'We feel fortunate, as a smaller vendor and BEA/Plumtree partner, to have been selected by both vendors originally,' he said. 'And so we think this merger is a really positive development for us and our joint clients with both BEA and Plumtree. These two companies combined cover about 20% of the global portal market, so in reality, this will make Kapow's technology a de facto standard for importing, or clipping, applications into portals.'

'Wily believes it's time to get real,' said Dick Williams, president and CEO of Wily Technology, Inc. 'Wily 6 provides end-to-end web application management that works in the real world. Critical business processes depend on applications running in highly complex heterogeneous environments. With Wily 6, we give our customers a single tool to understand in real-time the experience of real users and real transactions in those environments.'

The NetBeans Profiler is an add-on to NetBeans IDE adding a full-featured CPU, memory and threads profiling capabilities, . Visit http://profiler.net beans.org to download or get more information.

Ryman's blog can be read at ryman.eclipsedeveloper sjournal.com. He is the latest i-technology celebrity whose blog is syndicated on SYS-CON's branded blog-n-play community pages next to James Gosling, Marc Fleury, Ben Forta, John C. Dvorak, Alan Williamson and others.

Extending the capabilities of WebSphere Application Server and the WebSphere Platform, IBM yesterday announced the availability of new software that delivers the combined capabilities of autonomic and grid computing: WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 6.0.

IBM today announced that Avaya has selectedIBM WebSphere Voice Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server as theinitial speech and middleware platforms for Avaya Voice Portal, Avaya's newWeb services-based speech self service platform. The combination offerscustomers the flexibility to integrate enterprise applications with theircontact centers through a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework.

The latest version of WebSphere Portal, which includes new features to further support customers' efforts to build service oriented architectures (SOA), is available for the IBM eServer zSeries and iSeries platforms, as well as the new IBM System z9, IBM announced yesterday.

'With this acquisition, IBM can now deliver the industry's most comprehensive set of master data management solutions on the market,' said Janet Perna, IBM's general manager, Information Management, as Big Blue today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire DWL, a leading provider of customer data integration middleware.

IBM made announcements across a broad spectrum of its speech offerings, demonstrating progress with open-source based initiatives that can advance the speech self-service ecosystem.

IBM has announced that it has again been positioned as the number one vendor-based software revenue in 2004, according to IDC's 'Worldwide Application Deployment Software 2004, Vendor Shares By Operating Environment,' IDC report #33697, July 2005.

IBM today announced that Cisco Systems, Inc. hasselected IBM's WebSphere software as part of its new Applicati on-OrientedNetworking technology.

The privately held Isogon Corp., headquartered in New York, is being acquired by IBM. Isogon specializes in software that automatically tracks inventory and measures usage of software running on mainframe computers. The company will be integrated into IBM's Tivoli division.

IBM and Peregrine Systems have extended their strategic alliance to develop end-to-end solutions that help global organizations better manage their IT infrastructure.

Wireless operators and handset manufacturers worldwide can develop and deliver firmware over-the-air (FOTA) update capabilities with technology from a new agreement between IBM and InnoPath. The two companies plan to co-sell and co-market the solution to wireless operators and handset manufacturers worldwide.

DB2 Anonymous Resolution aims to address a major privacy issue by enabling financial services, healthcare, and other organizations to share individual data anonymously. Digital signatures and new correlation techniques are brought to bear on this challenge.

The creation of an impromptu shrine at former PeopleSoft headquarters in Pleasanton, CA, bemoaning the company's takeover by Oracle, apparently caught the eye of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.

IBM and Cisco jointly plan to deliver speech-enabled self-service solutions designed for use in contact centers, combining IBM's WebSphere Voice Server product and Cisco's Customer Voice Portal. The solutions, planned for Q2 2005, combine IBM's integration and application infrastructure software and speech technology with Cisco's Internet Protocol (IP) communications.

IBM has enhanced its WebSphere business integration software to address the needs of small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Specifically, IBM announced new versions of its WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) Server Express software. SMB is one of the largest and fastest growing opportunities in the IT industry, IBM says, pointing to IDC reports that say SMBs will spend $360 billion on IT in 2005.