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 abo

'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 communi

As many people correctly predicted, Web services and their corresponding service-oriented architecture (SOA) have proven their promise. Companies and businesses are starting to not only integrate new components and technologies, but are also opening up back-end systems and legacy proce

Another month is upon us and the world continues to change. The world of corporate governance is making its presence felt in all corners of information technology as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements begin to take effect with regard to Section 404. You only need to read the daily new

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.

IBM is aggressively developing applications for data synchronization. While still a largely underdeveloped technology with few standards, IBM's latest move seeks to establish publishing protocols, before data starts being enter.

A new version of IBM WebSphere is being introduced that uses radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. This is expected to create tighter integration between enterprises and off-site satellites.

'While the stock market can be unpredictable, the technology running it can't be,' said IBM's software chief Steve Mills - Senior Vice President and Group Executive, IBM Software - this morning as Big Blue announced in New York that it's working with the New York Stock Exchange on a ne

Time is money in any industry, but for life sciences companies a single day of having a new drug on the market can be worth hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of dollars. And that money, in addition to its obvious effect on the balance sheet, funds research into new treatments

Swainson: 'Let's start by defining 'on demand.' First, on demand reflects what our customers are doing with their businesses - streamlining their business processes to make them more flexible and adaptive to new markets and opportunities. They use information technology as a tool to in

In an effort to help companies reduce costs associated with the execution of redundant tasks, Bowstreet has released applications offering automation of services, along with enhanced self-service. The application is designed for use with IBM WebSphere Portal and Workplace.

IBM's Workplace Service Express 2.0, is designed to enable SMBs utilizing the Java development platform move onto a single server. In areas that have small market size, this is especially advantageous, letting SMBs streamline their operations by working with one partner.

The PeopleSoft board today recommended to its shareholders that they give Oracle the cold shoulder and reject its $24 per share bid for the company, seriously undervaluing it - says PeopleSoft - at just $8.8BN. Larry Ellison issued a statement saying that the offer is good till midnigh

Akamai is offering customers pay-as-you-play WebSphere and J2EE services. Companies, like Best Buy, can avoid the development lifecycle, and no longer need to worry about licensing agreements with individual vendors.

As the world becomes progressively more comfortable with e-business as a business model for the 21st century, criminals are also gaining a level of comfort in stealing information at a progressively alarming rate. Information theft is a global problem that will continue to grow as crim

Richard Monson-Haefel, now Burton Group's senior analyst but familiar prior to joining Burton for his well-regarded books and articles about Java and his open source projects like Apache Geronimo, has just published a report - J2EE: A Standard in Jeopardy - which suggests that LAMP tec

Web services will continue to play a vital role within enterprises, as companies strive to create cost-effective solutions that can be integrated into existing infrastructures. J2EE and Microsoft's .NET are the two primary platforms used in Web services. And while these two platforms c

Oracle this morning raised its price for PeopleSoft from $21 a share to $24, a total of $8.8 billion, saying $24 represents a 60% premium to where PeopleSoft was trading when Oracle made its first run at the company a year ago June. In a letter to PeopleSoft's board yesterday, Oracle

Ascential has entered into a reseller agreement with IBM that will enable Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite to be sold with IBM DB2 Information Integrator software. This ensures that businesses with extensive investments in IBM infrastructures like WebSphere will remain interopera

IBM is helping China's SMBs grow their technological infrastructures. To this end, IBM will open a center in Beijing that will work to adapt current software used by SMBs to applications employed by global corporations.

The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) is an open source code generation tool distributed under the Eclipse umbrella. It is a tool created in the spirit of the OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and an excellent example of the power of MDA.

Whether they produce cameras, equipment to make semiconductors, plasma TVs, medical equipment, printers, or cell phones, electronics companies share an all-encompassing requirement; they must continually bring more innovative products to market faster than ever before.

Application developers have always been under pressure to develop applications faster, with fewer resources. Recently, this has directed attention to service-oriented architectures (SOAs) because of their promise to provide libraries of reusable services that can be snapped together ea

IBM just announced WebSphere Application Server (WAS) version 6, which IBM says can save companies as much as $110,000 per minute in lost revenue and productivity. This capability is a major advance for enterprise-class computing.

Wily's new management package, Management 360, seeks to bring all the stakeholders within enterprises together, sharing information using a common language. Wily's approach, the company says, enables organizations to act in real-time in a cooperative manner.

After publicly retracting the results of J2EE versus .NET benchmark tests it conducted back in 2002, The Middleware Company (TMC) bravely ventured recently to revisit this minefield. From IBM's point of view, according to an internal document obtained today by WebSphere Journal, TMC ha

'SAP is now delighted to be able to participate in the application server shootout and demonstrate the power of SAP Web Application Server as a development and runtime platform for enterprise-scale Java applications,' said SAP's Christopher Hearn as the news was announced.

Which application server will be found to most resilient and flexible? And which most secure? It didn't take long for the enterprise software community to start discussing the 'Application Server Shootout' outlined this week by SYS-CON Media as it tapped Burton Group to stage the shoot

As I'm sure you've noticed. over the last few months I've been asking you whether you think BEA is DOA? The response has been intense and interesting. At some points some readers started with personal attacks on me and, in some cases, the publisher of this magazine. I think those peopl

IBM has no intention of giving up application server market share to open source competitors JBoss, Apache Geronimo, or JOnAS. Accordingly, explains IBM's Bob Sutor - director of WebSphere Foundation Software - the latest WebSphere release contains support for various Java and Web Serv

In an out-of-court settlement reached this morning, pending the signing of a final agreement, Sun has agreed to pay Kodak $92 million cash, bringing to an end the patent infringement proceedings instigated by Kodak last week, in which Java was declared by a federal jury to breach certa

Making itself the first app server to deliver this type of simultaneous detection and recovery capability together, WebSphere Application Server Version 6, when it becomes available before the end of the year - says IBM - will 'help protect Internet business applications built on it, f

Aldon has gained IBM Ready for WebSphere Studio V5.1 certification for its suite of Lifecycle Manager plug-ins. Enterprise systems can integrate the plug-ins, says the company, allowing developers to continue working in native WebSphere environments while retaining all Lifecycle Manage

Single sign-on was developed with the idea of making life more convenient for the user, but you may have to put a little more work into it to make that convenience a reality.

Red Hat's vice president for open source affairs, Michael Tiemann, has said Sun needs to prove its devotion to the open source community, by releasing Java. According to Tiemann, the move is needed to stop Microsoft's .NET from advancing. Open sourced Java, he believes, will accelerate

NEON Systems and Cape Clear Software announced they are working together to provide enterprise customers with integration solutions. The integration expertise offered by each company, will enable IT environments to maximize mainframe operability between applications and data throughout

Neon Systems, a leader in enterprise-class mainframe integration, today announced the availability of Shadow z/Services, a SOAP-based mainframe integration solution that allows organizations to rapidly transform CICS, IMS, and Advantage CA-IDMS applications into Web services.

A 2003 initiative between IBM and Art Technology Group (ATG) has been actively developed by ATG. Art Technology provides software used to measure potential reactions by consumers using e-commerce Web sites. ATG created the plug-ins for Java developers to save time with the coding of su

From now on, PeopleSoft's applications will be built on open standards using IBM's middleware platform, primarily the core components of WebSphere. The announcement came today as IBM and PeopleSoft began an expanded strategic alliance to provide customers, as they put it, 'with the mos