Paul Krill

Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. provided a progress report Wednesday on their interoperability efforts, touting ongoing cooperation on Web services standardization, deployment of Windows on Sun systems, and other areas.

Oracle Corp. at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco the week of Dec. 5 plans to unveil Oracle Integration, a product that combines the company

BEA Systems Inc. at the ApacheCon conference in Las Vegas on Monday announced it is adding the Jonas and Geronimo application servers as platforms supporting the Project Beehive open source development initiative.

Systinet Corp. on Monday released an upgrade of its UDDI-based business services registry that adds a configurable services console, advanced classification management, and publishing wizards for mapping and publishing of service data.

Looking to provide a catalyst for e-commerce, OASIS on Monday announced ratification of Universal Business Language (UBL) Version 1.0, which defines a common XML library of business documents for use in online transactions.

BEA Systems Inc. and Enerjy Software this week are expanding Java tools efforts while MKS Inc. is focusing on boosting Microsoft Corp.

Sun Microsystems Inc. and several other vendors on Wednesday released an early draft of a specification intended to ease integration of Java-based systems, but IBM Corp. and BEA Systems Inc. have dropped out of participation in the effort.

Borland official cites productivity improvements in touting the tool