Tom Sullivan

IWay Software on Monday announced the Adaptive SOA Framework, a collection of existing and new tools bound together to make it easier for companies to expose applications as Web services within an SOA. "We've taken SOA to heart and recognized that loose-coupling is the way to go," said John Senor, president of iWay.

Ipedo on Monday launched XIP 4.0 (Extensible Information Platform) and described it as a "dual-core" EII offering that works with both SQL and the emerging XQuery querying languages. New to Version 4.0 are support for Business Objects XI and Crystal Reports XI, a visual rules GUI, Web services publishing, and the dual querying engines.

Computer Associates International Inc. is looking to breathe new life into a long-quiet database and, in so doing, is gunning to make it outperform Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database 10g.

Computer Associates International Inc. later this year will release the final version of an entirely new software product for managing and securing wireless LANs (WLANs), dubbed Wireless Site Management (WSM).

Under what CEO Mark Templeton called "a new Citrix," the company detailed plans and products Tuesday to transform access into a strategic forethought, rather than a mere afterthought.

In the year ahead, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., and Hewlett-Packard Co. will bolster their utility-computing initiatives by upgrading key products.

SAS Institute Inc. this week unveiled what it calls the Information Evolution Model (IEM), and Information Builders Inc. said that it will detail a pact with Netegrity Inc. and take the wraps off a new version of its BI tool later this month.

Borland Software Corp. on Tuesday pried the lid off JBuilder X, the latest incarnation of its Java development environment, with feature improvements designed to increase developer productivity.