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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.

Among the languages favoured by Web developers and innovators, particularly those in the open-source community, three of the most popular are the alliterative Perl, PHP and Python which is emerging as a powerful alternative to the more traditional choices.

Even simple home-improvement projects can take a lot of time if you want to do them right. Wait for the stain to set on the previously unfinished chair before applying the second coat. Measure twice; cut once. Home Depot Canada, purveyor of home improvement products, takes an equally careful approach to its Web presence.

With rampant viruses, spyware and worms on the loose, customers must truly trust a technology vendor before downloading its software to their PCs. To strengthen that confidence and improve customer interactions at one of its Web sites, Intel Corp. teamed up with the MIT Sloan Center for eBusiness and Sloan School of Management professor Glen L. Urban, who specializes in trust-based marketing on the Internet.

Red Hat is warning enterprise Linux users to update their installations of XFree86 to fix a number of serious security bugs, some of which could allow attackers to take over a system. Affected operating systems include Enterprise Linux AS 3, Enterprise Linux ES 3 and Enterprise Linux WS 3, Red Hat said in an advisory.

Transmeta Corp. will cease production of all but a few of its low-power processors, shifting its focus to building new businesses around engineering services and intellectual property licensing, the company announced Thursday.

Developers who need more computing resources to build their Java-based applications will one day be able to take advantage of a new developer grid Sun Microsystems Inc. is preparing.

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