'Compliance and security are the new Software Quality drivers,' said Dr Adam Kolawa, cofounder and CEO of Parasoft Corporation, talking live on SYS-CON.TV to Sean Rhody, editor-in-chief of Web Services Journal and Yakov Fain, Enterprise Editor of JDJ.

The availability of CocoBase Enterprise O/R version 4.5 service release 7 includes additional advanced support for POJO Data Persistence, and tight integrations with the new versions of the Eclipse IDE, IBM WebSphere IDE and IBM's DB2 Database. It is designed to greatly simplify the use of complex models with expanded aggregate support for models that share a single database table.

IBM Global Services announced today new services that create an end-to-end roadmap to help customers become on demand businesses by using an SOA. These new 'asset-based' services, says IBM, will help customers with specific aspects of an SOA including planning, design, implementation and management and execute the approach developed by 'SOMA' - IBM's unique methodology to align business and technology in an SOA.

New addition to Integrator portfolio to unlock the value of isolated content assets distributed across the enterprise.

FairUCE (Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail), represents not simply a SPAM fighting product from IBM, but a new security technology.

In a bid to promote an exchange of ideas between the two, the IC and WebSphere community have pledged to exchange more information with one another.

This year will mark the tenth anniversary of the official launch of Java technology. It seems like only yesterday. No doubt there will be celebrations similar to the five-year anniversary, so I thought I would take this opportunity to step back in time and track Java's course.

IBM WebSphere is giving doctors a way to enter and access patient information using their voice, a keyboard or handwriting. This is leading to improved response times in critical care units.

This year it looks certain that a new participation record will be set, as more than 4,000 votes have already been recorded in just the first seven days of voting, as more than 50,000 SYS-CON Media readers are estimated to cast their votes in this year's Readers' Choice Awards. Highlights after just one week's voting are as follows.

Carly Fiorina has stepped down as Chairman and CEO of Hewlett Packard. CEO since 1999, Fiorina is being replaced by Robert Wayman, HP's current CFO, while Patricia Dunn, was named non-executive chairman of the board, effective immediately.

Paul Simon sings, 'Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.' Each person who attempts to conquer the highly fickle music or fashion market frequently does so by merely rehashing old ideas. Trends are repeated and what was once passe becomes fashionable again, as the definitions of old and new are blurred by memory and packaging.

Finland's general public offered classes in Java-WebSphere through partnership of Kenetiks and FCS.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has quickly taken centre stage as the primary development style of the next decade and beyond. Businesses of all types are preparing for the SOA revolution that promises consistency of process, reduction in duplicate work, ease of maintenance, service reusability and broad interoperability.

IBM is introducing WebSphere Everyplace Mobile Portal Enable V5.0, an integrated server-side infrastructure offering that enables the design and deployment of mobile solutions.

The Department of the Interior announced ESRI was selected to develop the full implementation of the Geospatial One-Stop Operational Portal (GOS 2).

eBay, The World's Online Marketplace, has more than 114 million registered users, 10,000 developers, and over 700 live, third-party applications.

On February 16th at Web Services Edge 2005 in Boston, Mass., Mr. Farquharson will present the topic: 'B2B Policy Enforcement: The Third Rail of SOA Implementation.' In this presentation he will discuss XML Virtual Private Networks (XML VPNs) and their potential to mitigate security policy enforcement issues in B2B SOA.

Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB). Sonic enterprise integration and messaging products deliver flexibility, scalability, and continuous availability through patent-pending innovations. Sonic Software enables over 700 customers to integrate their organizations from the department to the extended enterprise with a standards-based, service-oriented architecture (SOA).

MQSoftware will be hosting a new Web Seminar, 'Real-Time SWIFTNet Transaction Assurance,' on February 15, 2005 from 11:00-12:00 AM CST, the company has just announced.

IBM has released more details about what the next edition of WebSphere will be like. Robert LeBlanc, general manager of IBM's application and integration middleware division, said it will add support for the latest Web services communications protocols and build on machine-to-machine messaging software.

Global Knowledge, the largest privately held provider of training and enterprise learning services for information technology (IT) and management professionals, is partnering with WestLake, aleader in Web development training, to offer customers the industry's bestand most respected Web development training.

Speaking Live at SYS-CON.TV 'CodePro AnalytiX has advanced technology to the point where significant quality improvements can be achieved automatically during the coding phase of software development,' said Mike Taylor, CEO of Instantiations.

SYS-CON Media, the world's leading i-technology media company, announced that its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards polls opened today, February 1, 2005, and will remain open for six months, until July 31, 2005. More than 50,000 readers are expected to cast their votes to select the best software products and services of the year for Java, Linux, Web Services, XML, Microsoft .NET, ColdFusion and Macromedia MX.

A California outfit by the name of PatentCafe has set up a database of the 500 patents that IBM has pledged to open up to open source developers claiming its natural language-based search engine will accelerate developers' use of the patents.

SAP America, Inc., the U.S. and Canadian subsidiary of SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), this week announced the addition of several key executives to its leadership team overseeing strategic market segments, geographic territories, vertical industries and service units. The new executives join SAP America upon the company's completion of nine consecutive quarters of significant revenue growth, market share gains and industry leading customer satisfaction.

Under its new CEO-elect, John Swainson, the import from IBM, Computer Associates is going to move from a brand unit to a business unit structure just like at IBM. According to Swainson, who circulated an e-mail internally last Friday tracing the bare outlines of the reorganization, 'Business units have proven to be a highly effective way to organize companies in the technology industry.' He said it was 'a sensible model for CA.'

Pantero debuts the Expression Builder for creating sophisticated data interpretation and validation services without having to write code.

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that SYS-CON.TV (www.sys-con.tv), the first streaming live i-technology television is scheduled to debut on February 15, 2005 to coincide with the first day of the upcoming Web Services Edge 2005 East - International Web Services Conference Expo.

BRMS to make it practical for business and IT professionals to collaborate in managing business policies across the enterprise. With ILOG JRules(TM) 5.0, ILOG has taken the lead in providing a collaboration platform for all the stakeholders in the policy management process -- IT professionals, business people and systems administrators.

Itemfield, the leading provider of next-generation data transformation software for high-performance, mission-critical enterprise applications, announced the appointment of Dr. Jacob Ukelson as Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Dr. Ukelson will oversee Itemfield's technical product strategy and product roadmap.

Parasoft, a leading provider of Web services solutions, announced the release of Parasoft BPEL Maestro 1.5. Designed to help enterprises develop, manage and orchestrate long-term, persistent Web Service business processes. Parasoft BPEL Maestro 1.5 delivers a comprehensive BPEL engine and development toolkit that strictly adheres to Web Services and BPEL standards.

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that the first branded blogging community, www.blog-n-play.com (TM), will go beta on February 15, 2005, to coincide with the opening day of the Web Services Edge 2005 East International Web Services Conference & Expo (www.sys-con.com/edg e2005east).

In a passing remark about how 'there may someday be a redistributable JVM RPM at jpackage,' a mailing list last week prompted new speculation that IBM's version of open-source Java might be on its way since 'someday' - apparently - 'may even be next week.'

'We've repeatedly passed along customer interest in having IBM support Solaris 10 with WebSphere, DB2, Tivoli, Rational and MQSeries products,' wrote Jonathan Schwartz yesterday in an Open Letter to IBM's CEO Sam Palmisano. 'They'd like the choice to run IBM products on Solaris 10,' he continued, 'and they're feeling that your withholding support is part of a vendor lock-in strategy. A strategy to trap them into IBM's proprietary Power5 platform only.' Schwartz asks IBM to 'tear down this wall.'

Is the Oracle/Peoplesoft battle stressing people out? Well, it's not helping, says a Bay Area stress management expert. 'People are having to live with the uncertainty of 'will I have a job tomorrow,' or on a larger scale, 'will the company be here tomorrow?',' says Lucy Yaldezian, who treats a variety of panic and anxiety disorders at an office not far from PeopleSoft's Pleasanton, Calif. headquarters. Yaldezian explains how all too often in Silicon Valley 'We're living in the emergency room,' instead of fear being an occasional response, it's a permanent state of mind.

Jonathan Schwartz in July delivered what must be a leading candidate or the title of 'i-technology quote of 2004' - but who has even better suggestions?

John Swainson, the former IBM Software exec now running Computer Associates, has been replaced with Michael Borman. Swainson ran WebSphere until last spring when a reorganization made him head of IBM Software sales, the job Borman has now inherited. The software division brings in about $14 billion a year. Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch downgraded CA's stock from 'buy' to 'neutral' Thursday.

'As we enter the new year, you should expect 2005 to be one in which we place an ever heightening focus on our dialog with the community, and the developer community in particular,' writes Sun's president and COO, Jonathan Schwartz, in his first blog entry of the new year. 'One community with whom we've maintained a strong (nothing's ever perfect) dialog over the past few years is the Java developer community,' he adds. He describes it as 'vibrant and thriving.'

Four Moscow-based security experts with Kaspersky Labs have reported that the number of new entries to its malware database jumped by more than 30 in 2004 - with the two record holders for damage caused being Mydoom.a (February) and Sasser.a (May).

A solution comprising IBM WebSphere and financial applications from Siebel Systems has been selected by UMB to standardize its CRM initiative so that customer behavior can be better understood.