Yesterday, Microsoft and JBoss announced plans to enhance the integration between Windows Server and the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System. The two companies plan to focus on four key areas: Interoperability – web services; Security – Active Directory; Manageability – management of JEMS using Microsoft Operations Manager; Data – optimisation of SQL Server for use with [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 by admin
The past few weeks have seen a major flurry of industry activity, comment and posturing in the office productivity software arena. For five years or so – ever since the end of the small blip that was Corel‘s vain attempt to build a viable office productivity suite in Java – this part of the world [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 by admin
Back in June I commented on the investment of $7.5 million in Ping Identity by SAP’s VC arm. Well, that investment appears to be bearing fruit. At SAP TechEd ’05 in Boston yesterday, Ping announced the availability (as a free download) of kits to integrate Ping’s federated identity solution with SAP’s NetWeaver. I am sure [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 by admin