Paul Krill

IBM Corp. is extending its DB2 Everyplace database for handheld devices by adapting it for .Net development and offering a special version for small- to mid-sized businesses.

Borland Systems Inc. executives trumpeted the company's profitability, cross-platform support, and integration capabilities during an opening keynote session at the BorCon conference in San Jose on Sunday evening.

Actional Corp. is about to announce a bidirectional integration of its Looking Glass Web services monitoring system with the Microsoft Corp.'s Operations Manager (MOM) systems management platform.

IBM Corp. on Monday is previewing 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.

OASIS on Monday said it has formed an ebXML Business Process Technical Committee to further define the e-business XML Business Process Specification Schema (ebXML BPSS ) model for business collaborations within and between enterprises.

In a move that builds support for its .Net Framework, Microsoft Corp. recently launched Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System.

Software licensing practices must change to accommodate economic and technology trends, stressed officials at the SoftSummit conference in San Jose earlier this month.

Web standards body the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has finalized a specification for next-generation Web-based forms used for e-commerce transactions.