ObjectWeb Consortium has signed an agreement with a Chinese software group, Orientware, to build a common open-source middleware platform. According to the terms of a memorandum of understanding announced Friday, Orientware will also release several of its middleware components as open-source code.
IBM Corp. added another piece to its ongoing business intelligence initiative on Wednesday, acquiring Alphabox Corp., a small software company in Mountain View, Calif. that specializes in analytics software.
As part of its push to tailor its products for vertical industry customers, IBM Corp. announced Monday more than a dozen software-and-services packages customized for finance-industry customers. The 15 new bundles