Paul Krill

IBM Corp. on Tuesday unveiled beta releases of the first two products from its Xperanto federated data integration project, DB2 Information Integrator and DB2 Information Integrator for Content.

BEA Systems Inc. on Tuesday will pursue departmental developers with a price reduction on its WebLogic Express application server, intended for basic Web site development, and the launch of WebLogic Server, Workgroup Edition, a more full-featured application server that is limited to use by 20 developers.

Officials from Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. debated the merits of their companies' respective Web services development platforms Wednesday, with a Microsoft executive taking a more combative stance than his Sun counterpart in pitting .Net against Java.

BEA Systems Inc. on Monday introduced a technology called XMLBeans, which is designed to improve developer productivity by eliminating challenges to incorporating XML data into Java.

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday announced the integration of its IDE with Describe for Sun ONE Studio, a UML (Unified Modeling Language) modeling tool from Embarcadero Technologies Inc.

Seeking to establish an industry standard for Web site scripting, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML specification as a W3C Recommendation, constituting an endorsement as a W3C standard.

Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced availability of SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3, featuring a monitoring API and enhanced error reporting for Microsoft's server database.

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) this week plans to preview a pre-released version of Universal Business Language (UBL), a standard library of XML-based business documents such as purchase orders and invoices that can be used for transacting e-business, an OASIS official said Jan. 17.