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At its third annual user conference, open-source middleware vendor JBoss unveiled its first-ever Seam 1.0 application framework for Web 2.0 and announced the broadening of its vendor certification program to "software as a service" providers as it continues to build a support base for its enterprise open-source offerings.

When it comes to IT projects, it doesn't get much better than this: Procter & Gamble Co. saves US$300 million annually on an investment of less than one per cent of that amount.

It was an online retailer's worst nightmare. Most customers of the Louisville Slugger Museum's online gift shop arrived by way of Hillerich & Bradsby Co.'s home page for its famous bats, www.slugger.com. But last July, someone uploaded the wrong file to the company's Web site, and for six weeks, all attempts to go to the gift shop from the Louisville Slugger home page were redirected to another company's Web site.

By Christmas 2010, billions of autonomous software agents are expected to be roaming the Web year-round.