Loosely Coupled news releases live feedLive feed of the latest press releases and other news items from web services and business process suppliersAmberPoint Secures Additional Financing, with New Lead Investor Meritech Capital Joining Existing Investors- March 28, 2006 AmberPoint today announced that it has completed a $10.3 million round of funding. The financing was led by new investor Meritech Capital Partners, with all previous investors -- Crosslink Capital, Motorola Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures -- participating on a pro-rata basis. This latest round of funding, which raises AmberPoint's total financing to $41.1 million, was based on a significant increase in valuation.AmberPoint will use the funding to expand engineering...http://www.amberpoint.com/releases/pr_124.shtml JBoss Accelerates Open Source Middleware to High-End Market with New Projects- March 28, 2006 JBoss, Inc., the Professional Open Source company, today introduced two open source projects designed to further strengthen the JBoss(r) Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS(tm)) as the leading open source platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA): JBoss Messaging and JBoss Web Server (JBoss Web). These new technologies move JBoss further into the high-end market, which has long been presided over by expensive, proprietary application platforms.JBoss Messaging provides an open source and...http://www.jboss.com/pdf/press/messaging.pdf FreeCRM Leverages RatchetSoft to Integrate Contact Management Data Directly into Applications- March 28, 2006 FreeCRM.com, the world's largest on-demand service provider for customer relationship management software announced today it has partnered with RatchetSoft to deliver integrated web services. By utilizing Ratchet-X, FreeCRM.com users can link their application screens directly to any web service without requiring programming or changes to FreeCRM.com.The first release related to this partnership is the integration of FreeCRM.com with RatchetSoft's Contact Xtend. Contact Xtend is a free...http://www.strikeiron.com/news/si_freecrm.aspx OMG Announces Results of BPMI Steering Committee Election- March 27, 2006 The Object Management Group(tm) (OMG(tm)) and its BPMI (Business Process Management Initiative) Steering Committee today announced the results of elections to appoint members of the Committee for 2006 - 2007. For more information on the activities of the BPMI Steering Committee, visit http:www.bpmi.org. The BPMI Steering Committee provides Business Process Management thought leadership and expertise for the entire industry through education programs, public advocacy, and advice to the combined..http://www.omg.org/news/releases/pr2006/03-27-06.htm Sonic Software Announces ESB 7.0 Product Family with New Eclipse Workbench and Advanced Web Services- March 27, 2006 Sonic Software, the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB), and an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), today introduces the latest release of its highly successful Sonic ESB(r), the cornerstone of Sonic Software's service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure offering. The Sonic ESB 7.0 release includes a new Eclipse-based workbench that dramatically accelerates the modeling, configuration, testing and deployment of projects across...http://www.sonicsoftware.com/news_events/press/pressitem/pressrelease_756780/index.ssp LogicBlaze Launches Comprehensive Open Source SOA Solution- March 27, 2006 LogicBlaze(tm), a leading provider of open source solutions for business integration, today announced availability of LogicBlaze FUSE, the industry's first Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform provided as an open source distribution. LogicBlaze FUSE aggregates, packages and pre-validates a set of proven technologies from the Apache Software Foundation and Apache Software Foundation Incubator, including an enterprise service bus (ESB), messaging platform, persistence database, service...http://www.logicblaze.com/press_060327a.jsp |