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Oracle Unveils Plan of Attack for BEA Technology Integration
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| Competitive Update |
Application Infrastructure
- [Jul 03, 2008]
Oracle's product roadmap, which favors existing customers but
not all OEMs, will merge ESBs, move to BEA's application
server, form a unified portal/Web 2.0 offering, create a new
JVM architecture and fashion a lifecycle-complete BPM offering.
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Progress Acquires IONA in Play for SOA Leadership
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Jul 01, 2008]
Progress' acquisition of IONA builds the
firm's creditability
as a heterogeneous SOA provider
through technology and vertical
industry additions, existing cross-
company interoperability,
and global market expansion and mid-
market opportunities.
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CiscoLive!: Cisco Beefs Up its Next Gen Datacenter and Gets Serious about Web 2.0 Collaboration
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| Show Update |
Application Infrastructure
- [Jun 26, 2008]
Cisco previewed a Web 2.0-savvy collaboration platform, WebEx
Connect, and moved its Data Center 3.0 initiative forward with
a focus on WAN optimization, virtualization, interoperability
assurance as well as energy consumption benchmarking.
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WSO2’s Registry and ESB Point Releases Are More than Simple Feature Upgrades
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| Product Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Jun 26, 2008]
WSO2's release of Registry 1.1 and ESB
1.7 employs protocol
adoption, performance improvements and
an enhanced API to
create new ESB market opportunities
within the financial
services industry and foster ISV
opportunities for an embedded
registry.
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Red Hat Summit 2008: Red Hat Takes to the Cloud and Refocuses Virtualization Efforts
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Application Infrastructure
- [Jun 23, 2008]
Red Hat has set the stage for an elastic
and agile datacenter
by open-sourcing its Linux management,
releasing its
application server as a service on
Amazon's EC2 platform, and
introducing an embedded hypervisor built
on KVM.
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IBM Adds Consumer Collaboration Tools with Connections 2.0 Upgrade
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| Product Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Jun 17, 2008]
IBM has matured its collaboration
portfolio and furthered the
consumerization of IT through a number
of interface and cross-
product interoperability improvements
targeting social
networking paradigms that were the
purview of consumer sites.
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TechEd 2008: Microsoft Moves Dynamic IT Initiative Forward
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| Show Update |
Application Infrastructure
- [Jun 12, 2008]
Microsoft demonstrated technologies and
a cohesive roadmap for
its Dynamic IT initiative, which calls for a
service-enabled,
cloud-capable, unified and virtualized,
process-led, model-
driven, and user-focused server
environment.
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Sun Rebuilds SOA Suite with MDM and Event Processing
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Jun 11, 2008]
Sun has greatly matured its Java Composite Application Platform
Suite adding important functionality and reworking the suite as
a modular, pluggable platform for future expansion that will
appeal to both enterprise customers and an ISV ecosystem.
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AmberPoint Targets Packaged and SaaS Applications
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Jun 04, 2008]
AmberPoint has deepened its commitment to SOA governance across
both custom-built and pre-packaged software with a move to
support SaaS environments and telecom software providers Amdocs
and NetCracker.
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IONA Blends Data Management and SOA with Artix Data Services 3.7
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| Product Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [May 23, 2008]
IONA releases Artix Data Services 3.7 with an eye toward
improved developer productivity and the necessary convergence
between data and transport layers as well as barrier between IT
operations and line-of-business users within a SOA environment.
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EMC Strengthens Documentum with Native XML Store
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| Competitive Update |
Application Infrastructure
- [May 16, 2008]
EMC released a native XML Store for
Documentum, providing transparency
across file system, RDBMS, and XML, and
stepped firmly into the high-end,
personalized Web publishing arena with
the introduction of Documentum Dynamic
Delivery Services.
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HP’s Power Play for EDS Delivers Dubious Synergies
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Business Network Services - U.S., Enterprise Network Systems, Contact Center Solutions, Internet/Managed Services - U.S., Application Infrastructure, Enterprise Communications , Business Telecom Services - Europe, Enterprise Security, Enterprise Mobility - Europe, Enterprise Mobility - U.S., Telecom Services - Asia, Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [May 16, 2008]
HP’s agreement to shell out big money to
bolster its services
portfolio by acquiring EDS appears a safe,
but expensive and
uninspired move. The synergy is about
additive finances, not
revolutionary new ideas, and IBM’s
position is not threatened.
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SOA Software Grabs Up LogicLibrary
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [May 14, 2008]
SOA Software has made a striking blow
at the competition by
grabbing up the highly complementary
SOA service lifecycle
management vendor, LogicLibrary,
automating governance across
both design/development-time and
runtime environments.
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Sun JavaOne: Sun Readies JavaFX, Evolves Open Source Portfolio and Business Models
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Application Infrastructure
- [May 09, 2008]
Sun has demonstrated its ability to leverage the ubiquity and
brand value the Java platform and associated developer
community to pursue new business models reestablished momentum
behind the company’s slow to emerge RIA initiatives.
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Red Hat Upgrades Its Middleware Management Prospects with JBoss Operations Network 2.0
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| Product Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [May 07, 2008]
Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 2.0
seeks larger enterprise
customers through improved
performance, security, and
modularity, but broader application
support for Red Hat and
third-party solutions awaits.
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TIBCO TUCON: TIBCO Bolsters Its Interoperability Stance and Moves Further Toward Event-driven SOA
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| Show Update |
Application Infrastructure
- [May 05, 2008]
TIBCO has updated ActiveMatrix with
predictive tools, launched
a messaging appliance, and expanded its
partnerships with
Microsoft and BMC, setting specific battle
lines for event-
driven SOA, platform interoperability, and
IT/business alignment
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SpringSource Enters the Application Server Fray
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [May 02, 2008]
SpringSource has capitalized upon its
well-respected Java
development framework with an open
source application server
that eschews full Java EE support in favor
of a streamlined and
highly modular kernel, favoring ISVs and
SpringSource customers.
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Progress Software Beefs Up Its ESB and Messaging Servers
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| Competitive Update |
Application Infrastructure
- [Apr 29, 2008]
Progress Software has updated Sonic
ESB and SonicMQ with the
release of Sonic 7.6, which offers a
number of customer-
requested refinements spanning
performance, connectivity,
interoperability, and manageability.
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O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo: Desktop and Cloud Computing Draw Closer Together
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| Advisory Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Apr 25, 2008]
Heavy-hitting vendors Microsoft, IBM and
Intel stampeded this year’s social
networking show with announcements
exploring SaaS enablement and hosting,
consumer mashup services, offline/online
data synchronization and webtop
computing.
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BEA Extends Its Social Computing Strategy with Portal and Web 2.0 Product Updates
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| Product Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Apr 18, 2008]
BEA has released AquaLogic User
Interface 6.5 and AquaLogic
Pathways 1.5, adding ubiquitous support
for REST and RSS, while
employing a unique social networking
activity feed. However,
the specter of the impending merger with
Oracle looms.
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IBM IMPACT 2008: IBM Smashes up Web 2.0 Collaboration
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Application Infrastructure
- [Apr 10, 2008]
IBM continues its Web 2.0 push with new capabilities in
WebSphere Portal 6.1 as well as new products including a global
SOA social network, comprehensive situational mashup suite and
a mashup scripting tool.
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IBM IMPACT 2008: IBM Seeks to Meld IT and Business through New Event and BPM Solutions
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| Show Update |
Application Infrastructure
- [Apr 09, 2008]
IBM delivers on its acquisition of AptSoft with a new business
event solution and captures new entry points for BPM with the
introduction of a BPM suite, both designed to enable business
users to make commerce with IT architects and developers.
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Sun Revises Java Licensing and Support Program
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| Product Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Apr 08, 2008]
Sun has built a more sustainable
business model for Java with
the introduction of Java SE for Business,
a support and product
update program capable of supporting
older Java installations
up to 15 years.
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IONA Expands .NET Integration Capabilities
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| Product Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Apr 03, 2008]
IONA is putting .NET interoperability into
the hands of
Microsoft Visual Studio developers with
the release of Artix
Connect for WCF, melding Java, .NET, and
even CORBA together
with an adapter-less architecture.
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MuleCON 2008: MuleSource Moves Its Open Source SOA Platform Forward with ESB Updates and REST Support
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| Show Update |
Application Infrastructure
- [Apr 03, 2008]
MuleSource has greatly improved the
configurability and
applicability of its ESB, bundling in an IDE,
employing a new
XML configuration schema, and adopting
support for the popular
REST communications methodology.
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WSO2 Deepens SOA Appeal for Spring Developers
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Apr 02, 2008]
WSO2 is rounding out its collection of
Web service enablement
toolkits with the release of WSO2 Web
Services Framework for
Spring 1.0, strengthening the Spring
framework as a popular
development platform for SOA-based
applications.
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Red Hat Expands its Professional Services Footprint with Amentra Acquisition
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Mar 17, 2008]
Red Hat, with the addition of more than 135 North American-
based Amentra professional services consultants, has enhanced
its ability to both scale JBoss deployments and to engage with
customers on a more strategic level.
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What It Means to Be ‘‘Green:’’ Environmental Responsibility in the Telecom Industry
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| Advisory Report |
Data Management, Business Network Services - U.S., Carrier Infrastructure , Enterprise Network Systems, Broadband Infrastructure , Contact Center Solutions, Internet/Managed Services - U.S., Optical Infrastructure , Wireless Services - Europe, Solutions Assessments, Application Infrastructure, Wireless Infrastructure , Enterprise Communications , Business Telecom Services - Europe, Enterprise Security, Enterprise Mobility - Europe, IP Services Infrastructure, Wholesale Telecom Services , Enterprise Mobility - U.S., Telecom Services - Asia, Digital Media Infrastructure, Telecom Infrastructure Services, Consumer Broadband Services Europe
- BeNeLux, Central Europe, China/Hong Kong, Eastern Europe, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Nordics, Pan-Asia, Pan-European, Singapore, Southern Europe, UK/Ireland [Mar 07, 2008]
As Kermit once said, “It’s not easy being
green.” Current
Analysis recognizes the challenges and
opportunities associated
with environmental sustainability and it is
taking a
comprehensive approach to analyzing the
key issues in this
movement.
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Microsoft Expands SaaS Footprint with Collaboration Tools
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| Competitive Update |
Application Infrastructure
- [Mar 05, 2008]
Microsoft has taken aim at the mid-
market with an extension to
its Microsoft Online Software program
featuring beta programs
for Exchange Online and SharePoint
Online, both running in a
true instance, multi-tenant SaaS
environment.
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Alcatel-Lucent Integrates with HP to Secure and Govern SOA Communications
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Feb 22, 2008]
Alcatel-Lucent has moved to improve its
ability to enforce
security and compliance policies at
runtime through a solution
that combines HP’s Systinet governance
platform with its
recently network-embedded SOA
appliance.
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JBoss World: Red Hat Ramps Up SOA Portfolio and Practices
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| Show Update |
Application Infrastructure
- [Feb 15, 2008]
Red Hat has further solidified its
leadership among open source
players with the introduction of a single,
supported SOA suite
of products, an enterprise enablement
program, and new open
source projects focusing on governance
and management.
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WSO2 Hits the Governance Market with a Web 2.0-Friendly Registry/Repository
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Feb 14, 2008]
WSO2 intends to rebuild the enterprise as a social environment
with a governance platform that, while still immature, employs
a number of tools including tagging, ratings and comments as
well as lightweight access methods such as AtomPub and REST.
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TIBCO Adopts Use Case Bundles with ActiveMatrix 2.0
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Feb 13, 2008]
TIBCO has upgraded its managed service
platform for SOA, ActiveMatrix, adding a
flexible bundling program, introducing an
entry-level ESB solution, coupling with
other TIBCO products, and improving
heterogeneous application support.
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Workday Targets Packaged Application Big Guns with Cape Clear Acquisition
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Feb 08, 2008]
Workday has acquired ESB vendor Cape
Clear, setting the stage
for direct competition with application
vendors SAP, Microsoft,
and Oracle through a SOA-centric, SaaS-
based ERP architecture
focused on pre-packaged and custom
integration services.
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Progress Revs Actional with Focus on BPM
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| Competitive Update |
Application Infrastructure
- [Feb 05, 2008]
Progress Software has released Actional 7.1 with lifecycle-
complete ties to BPM tools, a new API and non-XML payload
support, solidifying Actional as a best-of-breed SOA governance
platform on par with solutions from AmberPoint and SOA Software.
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HP Reinvests in Systinet with New Governance Software and Services
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Jan 31, 2008]
HP continues to move Systinet forward with an improved UI,
cross-product integration, a developer edition, implementation
services/software offerings and a new cadre of GIF supporters,
all ushering the vendor back into forefront of SOA governance.
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IBM Reinvents CEP as BEP with AptSoft Purchase
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Jan 28, 2008]
IBM ups the ante within the SOA market with a CEP buy that puts
line-of-business owners at the center of event processing via
an intuitive GUI for the definition of event sources, event
patterns and actions
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IBM Lotusphere 2008: IBM Renews Its Web 2.0 Push
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| Show Update |
Application Infrastructure
- [Jan 23, 2008]
IBM has unleashed a series of Web 2.0
announcements that
crosses its entire Lotus product family
under a compelling,
bottom-up collaborative philosophy
of “emergence.”
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IBM Lotusphere 2008: IBM Hits the SMB Market with Hosted and Hardware-based Solutions
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| Show Update |
Application Infrastructure
- [Jan 23, 2008]
IBM has introduced key collaborative tools based upon the Lotus
portfolio, a complete SaaS offering and a turnkey server;
though still embryonic, both solutions will significantly
extend IBM’s reach into the SMB market for collaboration.
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Oracle Finally Grabs Up BEA
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Application Infrastructure
- [Jan 18, 2008]
Oracle, despite the slow burn of this
acquisition, will boost
its stature within the SOA marketplace by
adding BEA’s J2EE and
high-end messaging capabilities,
profitable market reach into
Asia Pacific and dominance within the
telecom vertical.
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