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Microsoft and JBoss co-operate: commercial realities abound

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

Office productivity suites finally got interesting again

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

SAP venture funding bears fruit

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 [...]

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