Paul Krill

Pursuing enterprise departments and smaller businesses, Oracle Corp. and Dell Inc. are offering a package featuring a Dell PowerEdge server bundled with the Oracle Database10g Standard Edition One database and the Microsoft Corp. Windows Server 2003 operating system.

JBoss Inc. on Monday is shipping JBoss Application Server 4.0, which the company is billing as the first open source application server certified as compatible with the J2EE 1.4 platform.

A Sun Microsystems Inc. official at the BorCon conference in San Jose, California on Tuesday touted the Java Community Process (JCP) for amending the Java programming language, but did not have any revelations pertaining to industry calls for making Java available under an open source format.

At the BorCon conference this week, Borland Software Corp. will reveal its Software Delivery Optimization strategy, which leverages the company's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and developer products to ease software development and maintenance.

Web services management and security provider Digital Evolution Inc. on Monday is announcing its acquisition of former competitor Flamenco Networks Inc., which has provided specialized network infrastructure for implementing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs).

Macromedia Inc. is looking to bring Web conferencing to the masses by making its Breeze Live hosted service available on a pay-as-you go basis instead of requiring a subscription.

Macromedia Inc. is looking to bring Web conferencing to the masses by making its Breeze Live hosted service available on a pay-as-you go basis instead of requiring a subscription.

IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., and Computer Associates International Inc. have jumped aboard in support of the WS-Eventing specification for subscribing to Web services-based events, joining original developers Microsoft Corp., BEA Systems Inc., and Tibco Software Inc.