Universal Business Language 1.0, which is intended as a common XML message format for e-commerce, is now available for public implementation testing in a beta format, according to an official of OASIS.
Software licensing practices must change to accommodate economic and technology trends,rn officials stressed at the recent SoftSummit conference in San Jose.
Infravio Inc. and Actional Corp. are advancing their Web services management products Monday, with Infravio focusing on a "contract-based" approach and Actional touting support of Microsoft Corp.
Sun Microsystems Inc. next week will ship Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4, which is designed to enable the use of Web services in Java applications, along with an application server based on the new platform.
IBM Corp. last month previewed enhancements planned for the next version of the DB2 database that are intended to help simplify development of applications for the Microsoft Corp. .Net platform.
Sun Microsystems Inc. is pondering joining the Eclipse open source development tools project for Java led by IBM Corp., but still has some concerns, a Sun official said recently.