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In this first featured interview, Rod Smith, VP of Emerging Technologies, IBM, sheds light on why Web Services are important,
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for steering IBM towards XML and Web Services and strategizing IBM's involvement in Web Services initiatives.
Schedule of Upcoming Video Interviews:
- Rickard Oberg - Author, Mastering RMI,JBoss Lead Architect, WebWork Lead Architect - Oct. 29th
- Steve Benfield - CTO, Silverstream Software - Nov. 5th
- Craig Russel - JDO Spec Lead
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Latest appserver market analysis: BEA 41%, IBM 31%, IPlanet 13%
Independent research by Gartner Dataquest shows that BEA holds 41% of the new direct license revenue in the application
server software market in 2000, a figure that is 10 share points higher than its closest competitor.
BEA now has confirmation of its first place market position by every major industry analyst firm tracking
the application server market.
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JBoss open source app. server integrates with Cocobase O/R
JBoss Group LLC, a commercial company regrouping developers from the JBoss Open Source application server, today
announced their decision to broaden their offerings for the enterprise level developer with CocoBase Enterprise O/R,
an object-to-relational mapping tool, optimized for EJB.
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read more.
Rivals encroach on Oracle's database lead
Oracle is facing the biggest threat ever to its database dominance, as IBM, Microsoft and new competitors chisel
away at its market share. Oracle, in its most recent earnings report, said database sales fell 8 percent overall,
whereas IBM's and Microsofts revenues have grown 36% and 45% in the last quarter, respectively.
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An overview of todays Application Servers
A high level overview of todays common application servers has been made available in first draft form for public
use and input. The thesis covers JRun 3.1, ATG 5, BEA WL 5.1, Borland 4.5, Jonas 2.3, Fujitsu Interstage 4, HP
Bluestone 7.3, Websphere, IPlanet and more. This review is part of a thesis on application servers.
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Gartner: Microsoft's J#.Net will be ignored
A new tool from Microsoft aimed at attracting Java developers to its .Net Web services plan, Visual J#.Net,
will (according to Gartner analyst Mark Driver) confuse the adoption of C#, Microsoft's answer to Java. Moreover,
it will ultimately be ignored by most Java platform developers.
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JSR 153: Enterprise Java Beans 2.1 posted to JCP
The Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1 specification extends the existing Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0 specification with new
features, including support for JAXM message-driven beans, enhancements to EJB QL to support aggregate and other operations,
support for linking of messaging destinations, support for web services usages within EJB, and a container-managed
timer service.
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Microsoft to release Java version of .NET?
Microsoft silently made a download that added Java language support to .NET available on Sunday, but then quickly
pulled it off. A release note, curiously dated October 11 - this coming Thursday - describes it as a beta of "Visual
JSharp .NET Version 7.0." The J# product doesn't compile .class bytecode, or support Sun's RMI or JNI.
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