Can afford to take just one day off, get out of your cubicle and see what other people up to these days? Is J2EE still in favor? What's this ESB is about? Have you even heard of using Flex as a Web front end of your Java applications? Do not miss an event in NYC this Monday, that is cr

Terracotta, a provider of infrastructure software for enterprise Java high availability and scalability, has announced support for IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition. With this addition, Terracotta 2.4 can now be used to deliver scalability and availability for

Terracotta, a provider of infrastructure software for enterprise Java high availability and scalability, has announced support for IBM's WebSphere and WebSphere CE application servers, and Hibernate, a high-performance object/relational mapper. With these new capabilities, Terracotta c

SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM joined SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East as 'platinum sponsor.' IBM (www.IBM.com/SOA) is the world's leading technology provider of SOA and Web Services solutions. IBM's 'SOA' website answers the question 'Why Service Oriented Architecture an

SOA has moved beyond a technology initiative. It is fundamentally about creating an alignment between business and IT -- about driving IT design and deployment decisions from a clear understanding of the business design being automated by IT. Doing so creates an economic context in whi

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. AJAXW

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

'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 exci

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

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 la

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 furth

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 messagin

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 semin

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

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 lo

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

'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 dev

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 'ec

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 C

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

'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 integ

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.

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 prod

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

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 develope

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 vConsolida

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

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

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 pos

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 t

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 anno

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 com

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 re

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 r

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

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 N

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.