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comScore Media Metrix
today released its
monthly analysis of U.S.
consumer activity at top
online properties and
categories for February
2007 and introduced a new
suite of metrics based on
site 'visits.' The
'visits' metric, defined
as the number of times a
unique person accesses
cont
Helmi Technologies Inc.,
the provider of an open
source platform for
building AJAX-based Rich
Internet Applications
(RIAs), is an exhibitor
and speaker at AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2007
East, the leading Web 2.0
and RIA event taking
place on March 19-21,
2007 in New York City.
Reactivity® Inc., the
leading vendordelivering
on the promise of SOA,
today announced that
Reactivity has beenchosen
by CheckFree Corporation
(NASDAQ: CKFR) for its
SOA infrastructureand Web
service delivery.
Reactivity's Gateway
serves as a mediation
enginethat manages,
secures and ac
Service-oriented
architecture (SOA) is a
fairly recent phenomenon
which often means
different things to
different people. While
the intended benefits for
businesses are business
agility, business-IT
alignment and better
management of the IT
environment, there is
considerable skepticism
MetaCarta®, Inc., the
leading provider
ofgeographic intelligence
solutions, today
announced support for KML
(KeyholeMarkup Language)
for MetaCarta Geographic
Text Search (GTS) and
MetaCartageOdrive. For
the first time, companies
and governments can now
searchunstructured text
document
Pervasive Software(R)
Inc. , a global value
leader in data
infrastructure software,
today announced FAMIS
Software, a provider of
world-class Integrated
Workplace Management
solutions, has embedded
Pervasive Business
Integrator(TM) in its
flagship product, FAMIS.
FAMIS applications mu
including reduced
latency,environmental
savings (space, power,
and cooling), lower Total
Cost ofOwnership,
simplified management and
much more. The paper also
describeshow 10GE blade
server switches will
facilitate the roll out
of value-addedservices
such as VoIP and
IPTV/Video-On-Dema
Krugle, Inc., the code
search engine for
developers, today
announced the beta
release of Krugle
Eclipse, a new code
search plugin for
Eclipse, the world's most
popular open source
development platform.
Krugle Eclipse enables
enterprise developers to
easily search and browse
open sourc
Nexaweb Technologies,
Inc., provider of
theleading
standards-based platform
for building and
deploying Enterprise
Web2.0 (EW2.0)
applications, today
announced its
participation at
EclipseCon2007, March 5-8
in Santa Clara. In
addition to being a
Silver sponsor ofthe
four-day event, Nex
Avaya Inc. , a global
leader in business
communications
applications, software
and services, today
introduced a new solution
that addresses the
challenges businesses
face in responding
faster, smarter and more
effectively in today's
'always-on' world. It
embeds Avaya Intelligent
Commun
In order to describe
itself as an 'open
source' company, need a
company merely be 'a
company that will help
you make the switch to
open source in your
company' - or does it
have to be one that lets
users feely download,
compile, and use the
software in question?
Where is the dividing l
At the Gartner
Application Integration
and Web Services
Conference today, Kapow
Technologies (http://www.
kapowtech.com/), the
leading provider of
mashup solutions for the
enterprise, today
unveiled openkapow, the
industry's first software
service and developer
community designed to acc
Chariot's team of Java
architects includes some
of the best and brightest
J2EE experts in the
region, the company says.
They are authors (books,
white papers, articles,
etc.) and frequent
speakers at the
international JavaOne
convention and regional
Java User Groups.
Skyway Software, the
award winning provider of
Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) design
and delivery solutions,
and GT Software, a
leading provider of rapid
SOA development tools for
mainframes, today
announced a formal
partnership encompassing
sales, marketing, and
product integrati
At my firm, Infosys
Technologies, I have come
across several clients
who are actively trying
to explore, consider,
adopt, embrace, or become
completely immersed in
SOA. Here is a typical
call I've received, where
our client rep says,
'Ajit, we've got a very
critical meeting with the
CI
By Anshuk Pal Chaudhari; Bijoy Majumdar; Sunny Saxena
Most organizations that
have tried have been
successful in
implementing a pliable
Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA)
paradigm. Analysts have
come out with strategies
to translate existing
applications into
SOA-compliant systems
using a staggered
approach. The rewards
reaped come in th
Integration New Media,
Inc. and Really
Strategies Inc. announced
a new joint white paper,
entitled NIMAS: An
Opportunity for
Educational Publishers.
This free white paper
provides educational
publishers with an
overview of the National
Instructional Materials
Accessibility Standard
(NI
Jeff Nick, SVP and CTO of
EMC, will be delivering
the June 26 keynote at
SOA World Conference &
Expo 2007, which is
colocating with
Virtualization Conference
& Expo 2007 at The
Roosevelt Hotel, New York
City, 25-27 June, 2007.
At the end of keynote
presentation by the CTO
of EMC, 'Serv
by exploiting a new
cross-vertical market
segment it established
last summer, Businesses
Living IN Change
(BLINC)(TM). Announcing
a 75 percent win ratio in
mid-market deals
pre-qualified as dynamic,
change-oriented
organizations, Agresso is
currently number five in
the revenue ranking
SOA World 2007 East
Conference & Expo and
Enterprise Open Source
2007 East Conference &
Expo, both to be held
June 25-26, 2007, in New
York City, announced that
the conference 'Call for
Papers' is now open.
Topics include all
development and
management aspects of Web
Services and Servi
ClearApp(R), Inc., the
only company offering
Application Performance
Management (APM)
Automation(TM) for
portal, J2EE and SOA
applications, today
announced that
QuickVision 6 for
Portals, a best-of-breed
enterprise portal
management solution, has
been extended to model
and manage the p
The number of mobile
workers globally will
soon be more than double
the total U.S.
population, according to
predictions by another
analyst firm, IDC Corp.
IDC has predicted that in
two years there will be
878 million mobile
workers linked to their
corporate headquarters by
notebook PCs
Stowe Boyd,
internationally
recognized authority on
social tools and their
impact on business and
society and editor of
/Message, the blog on
'what is happening at the
edge, and its impact on
the center,' will be
speaking at AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2007
East, being held 19-21
March
without the need to
download or install
anything on the client,
updating the changed data
on the screen without
reloads. It can also
enliven any traditional
thick-client application
with streaming data
through client APIs. The
optimized use of HTTP
together with bandwidth
control and a
There is more to Web 2.0
content than just Web 2.0
widgets. While some may
not know, XML is the
fabric of Web 2.0
applications. Web 2.0 or
Rich Internet
Applications are popular
due to the interactive
content on the browser.
Developers building these
applications will benefit
from incr
Most companies,
especially from the
banking domain, develop a
large amount of their
software in C/C++, and
generally, they are not
interested in
redeveloping the code in
any other new generation
language, such as .NET or
Java, due to cost and
performance reasons. One
well known advanta
'It's clear that many of
the services we consume
and manage going forward
will be services that
exist outside of the
enterprise, such as
subscription services
from guys like
Salesforce.com, or
perhaps emerging Web
services marketplaces,'
says David S. Linthicum,
who will be giving a se
IT Mill is a leading
Finnish software company
specializing in the
design and development of
web user interfaces and
the use of the Java and
XML platforms, as well as
AJAX expertise for its
clients. The company also
undertake sub-contract
software development and
offer high quality plan
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
Analyst firm explains
Nexaweb's Enterprise Web
Application leadership
through flexible, open
product platform and deep
expertise with over 5,000
successful deployments at
large, highly dispersed
enterprises Burlington,
MA 3/4 February 20, 2006
3/4 Nexaweb Technologies,
Inc., provider
Software AG is launching
the most ambitious
expansion program in the
37-year history of the
company. The company
plans to more than double
revenue to euro 1 billion
within five years
resulting in higher
growth rates in both
operational earnings and
net income. As the first
new growth
Emergent OnLine, an IT
Solutions Provider and
one of the most trusted
IT integrators in the
Washington metropolitan
area, announced that it
received a $1.5 Million
award to modernize the
desktop computing
infrastructure of a US
Department of Defense
agency, transforming it
into a virtu
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
Tidal Software, a leading
provider ofintegrated
application scheduling
and performance
management software,today
announced the appointment
of Jim Green, CEO of
Composite Software
andformer CTO of
webMethods, and Shahan
Soghikian, managing
director ofPanorama
Capital to the Tidal
Softwa
Capping fourteen
consecutive quarters of
profitability, Tidal
Software, a leading
provider of integrated
application scheduling
and performance
management software,
today announced its
results for the second
quarter of fiscal 2007,
ending December 31, 2006.
Total revenue was up 35%
com
Active Endpoints, Inc. (h
ttp://www.active-endpoint
s.com/), a leading
provider of BPEL
(Business Process
Execution Language)
solutions, today
announced that IONA(R)
Technologies
(http://www.iona.com/), a
world leader in
distributed
service-oriented
architecture (SOA)
infrastructure solu
Nexaweb Technologies,
Inc., provider of
theleading
standards-based platform
for building and
deploying Enterprise
Web2.0 (EW2.0)
applications, and
Inkriti, a technology
consulting company thatis
a leading provider of Web
2.0 Solutions for
customer-centric
e-business,today
announced a n
LISA already supported
easy test case attachment
as simple XML files
within Test Director (now
known as HP Quality
Center) and other test
management and
development process
solutions, from issue and
bug tracking tools, to
source code (SCM) and
requirements management
(RM) software. Now
Seagull Software , a
leading provider of
high-performance software
solutions that transform
legacy business
applications into
service-oriented
architecture (SOA)
assets, announced that it
will be a presenter and
will exhibit at the 2007
SHARE User Event which
began on Sunday, February
Exigen Services, one of
the largest application
outsourcing firms in
Central and Eastern
Europe, and StarSoft
Development Labs, a
leading provider of
software development
outsourcing services in
Russia and Ukraine, today
announced their merger.
The combination of Exigen
Services' EU op