BEA Systems Inc.'s decision to offer its WebLogic Workshop run-time framework under an open source format, through its Project Beehive effort, may prompt the company to reconsider its current stance of not participating in either the NetBeans or Eclipse open source tools programs, said BEA's Cornelius Willis, vice-president of developer marketing.
Microsoft Corp. at the VSLive show in San Francisco previewed several upcoming development tools, including an incremental release of its development environment, Visual Studio .Net 2003.
AmberPoint Inc. has integrated its flagship software product, Management Foundation, with IBM Corp.'s Tivoli Systems Inc., AmberPoint announced this week.
At this week's Web Services Edge West 2002 conference in San Jose, Web services management will gain some attention when Actional Corp. launches a product that aims to address a need that's expected to emerge.
Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) plans to extend the integration infrastructure it has built to unify its major applications by adding support for Web services technologies.