Loosely Coupled news releases live feedLive feed of the latest press releases and other news items from web services and business process suppliersJBoss Introduces Industry-Leading Open Source Business Rules Engine- April 3, 2006 JBoss(r), Inc., the Professional Open Source company, today announced JBoss Rules 3.0, the newest version of the company's open source business rules engine. With JBoss Rules, one of several new product releases announced today, JBoss continues to deliver proven open source middleware products that improve business agility and solidify the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS(tm)) as the market's leading open source platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA).JBoss Rules enables product.http://www.jboss.com/pdf/press/rules.pdf Service-Oriented Architecture Will Offer a Tremendous Opportunity for Service Providers Through 2010, IDC Reveals- April 3, 2006 According to a newly released IDC study, service-oriented architecture (SOA) will continue to have a profound impact on the overall services market, as implementation of this architecture often requires spending on a range of external services. These services include consulting and systems integration, and eventually outsourcing, application management, support, and training. IDC forecasts that worldwide spending on SOA-based external services will reach $8.6 billion in 2006, experiencing a...http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS20108306 BT Chooses New Compute Model from Azul Systems to Power Demand Driven Infrastructure- April 3, 2006 Azul Systems, Inc., the pioneer of the industry's first network attached processing solution, today announced that BT has selected Azul Compute Appliances as a critical component of its network service delivery infrastructure. Azul will enable BT to deliver massive throughput and scalability to some of its most transaction-intensive applications and services, such as those based on the Java(tm) platform or Microsoft(r) .NET(tm) framework, drive out significant cost from existing infrastructure..http://www.azulsystems.com/news/press_sub46.html TA Associates Announces $200 Million Buyout of Global 360, Inc. Leads Investment with Technology Crossover Ventures and JMI Equity- April 3, 2006 TA Associates, a leading private equity and buyout firm, today announced the completion of a $200 million buyout of Global 360, Inc., a global software and services company providing business process management and optimization solutions. TA led the investment along with Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), a leading provider of growth capital to technology companies, and JMI Equity, a private equity firm exclusively focused on investments in the software and business services industries.Global.http://www.ta.com/news/news_detail.asp?id=125 JBoss jBPM 3.1 Expands Business Process Agility- April 3, 2006 JBoss(r), Inc., the Professional Open Source company, today announced the release of JBoss jBPM 3.1, the company's powerful Java-based business process management (BPM) system. A core piece of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS(tm)), JBoss jBPM 3.1 adds multi-process language support as well as integration with JBoss Seam, the company's new framework for building Enterprise Java applications. JBoss jBPM 3.1 is one of three core products announced today that together bolster JEMS as the.http://www.jboss.com/pdf/press/jbpm3.pdf JBoss Releases Industry's First Enterprise Open Source Solution for Mission Critical Transactions- April 3, 2006 JBoss(r), Inc., the Professional Open Source company, today announced the release of JBoss Transactions, an open source distributed transaction management platform based on industry-proven technology acquired from Arjuna Technologies and HP in 2005. This release marks the first time that a high-end transaction engine has been made available for free and unlimited use through the open source community. JBoss Transactions, one of several core products announced today, builds on JBoss' vision of...http://www.jboss.com/pdf/press/transactions.pdf Zimbra Launches On-Demand Partner Program- April 3, 2006 Zimbra ( http:www.zimbra.com ), a leader in open source, next-generation collaboration and messaging, today announced that its flagship Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is now available on-demand through a worldwide partner program for Hosted Service Providers (HSPs) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs).Through Hosted Zimbra(tm), small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and other companies that prefer not to host their own collaboration servers have access to the benefits of ZCS including...http://www.zimbra.com/about/zimbra_pr_2006-04-03.html Reactivity Completes WS-Security Interoperability Testing with Windows Communication Foundation- April 3, 2006 Reactivity(r), Inc., a leading XML enabled networking solutions provider, today announced successful completion of interoperability testing with WS-Security and Microsoft's Windows Communications Foundation (WCF). WCF is a part of WinFX, Microsoft's managed code programming model included in Microsoft's next generation operating system, Windows Vista. Completing and passing interoperability testing with WCF ensures that Reactivity's award-winning XML Gateways are compatible with WCF within the..http://www.reactivity.com/news_and_events/pr_040306_wcf_plugfest.html |