CIOs Should Develop Positive Approach to Mergers, Advises Gartner

Chief Information Officers (CIOs) who approach organisational mergers, acquisitions and divestments (MA&Ds) as an opportunity to grow staff and strengthen IT assets put their companies at significant advantage over those who view MA&Ds with trepidation, according to new research from Gartner. In a report entitled 'Timing Is Everything in Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestments', results from a survey by Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) reveal a positive approach and attitude towards mergers and acquisitions is one of ten powerful practices identified by Gartner in MA & D-savvy CIOs. "Organisations which are MA&D-ready tend to have a CIO who has been engaged in the process from an early stage," said Mr Aron. "In such cases, the CIO is ideally placed to both maximise the value of future integrated systems and retain employees who will be of long-term value to the organisation. With MA&D deals on the rise again, CIOs need to understand and influence their enterprise’s MA&D agenda," said Mr Aron."

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EMC Announces New Solutions, Services for Apps Running on Oracle

EMC has expanded its solutions and services portfolio for Oracle customers in midsize and enterprise organisations. EMC is said to have developed integrated solutions designed for Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters based upon the EMC Celerra family of IP storage systems. These solutions include both assessment and an implementation service to address consolidation, backup and recovery, and protection of information on EMC storage in Oracle environments, the company is quoted to have said.

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Flextronics, Renamed as Aricent, to Invest USD 100 Mln in India

Aricent, previously the software development and solutions business of Flextronics, has emerged as an independent, full-service, full-spectrum communications software company. The new name comes following the acquisition of 85 per cent of the business on 4 September 2006, by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Sequoia. Flextronics retains 15 per cent ownership. The transaction valued the entire business at approximately USD 900 million.

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Adobe Announces USD 100 Mln VC Fund for Apollo, other Adobe Software

Adobe is planning to invest approximately USD 100 million in venture capital over the next three to five years in companies leveraging Adobe platform technologies, particularly companies delivering applications via Apollo.

This approach is emerging as a key strategy for generating revenues from Apollo. "We believe [Apollo] will change the way the world will interact with the Web in the future," Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen said.

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Oracle's John Wookey Outlines Applications' Progress and Charts Their Future

Oracle is all set to support and enhance its application lines. The needs and desires of customers drive Oracle's efforts in applications development, says Oracle Senior Vice President John Wookey.

Wookey also emphasised that new releases are planned in all application product lines. "In fact, the new release of [JD Edwards] World is the first functional release of the product since 1998," he pointed out.

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Fujitsu Notebook Running on Sony Battery Injures One in Japan

Fujitsu, one of several companies involved in the worldwide Sony laptop battery recall, has disclosed that one of its notebooks with Sony's batteries overheated and sparked, burning the hand of the user. The injuries were minor, and the incident was the first known occurrence on any of its products, the company said. Altogether, Fujitsu is recalling some 338,000 batteries due to the fire risk.

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Atheros Acquires Taiwan`s Attansic for USD 71 Mln

Atheros has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Attansic. Attansic is a majority-owned subsidiary of ASUSTek Computer and is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan and is said to have a large presence in Shanghai.

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Motorola Expresses Interest in French Handset Maker Sagem

Motorola has expressed interest in purchasing French handset manufacturer Sagem from its aerospace parent company Safran. Sagem has reportedly been struggling with financial losses, getting by with sales of low- to mid-range handsets.

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Sun Sees Innovation, Collaboration as Keys to Global Growth

It's not demand for 'shopping-mall IT' that is driving market share and revenue growth for leading technology firms, according to Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz—it's innovation, addressing Oracle OpenWorld attendees at the keynote session.

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Larry Ellison Announces 'Unbreakable' Oracle Linux for Businesses

Red Hat’s stock price was off 24% in yesterday's trading after the announcement that Oracle was planning to provide open-source software for big businesses. But to make that happen, it plans to steamroll right through Linux open-source vendor Red Hat on its way. Oracle starts with Red Hat Linux, removes Red Hat trademarks, and then adds Linux bug fixes. Oracle has revealed that customers are rapidly embracing its Unbreakable Linux program, the company's global program for enterprises running Linux. "We believe that true enterprise quality support for Linux, at a lower cost, is something that our customers want," said Oracle President Charles Phillips.

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Wipro Buys Singapore's 3D Networks, Planet PSG for USD 23 Million

Wipro has signed an agreement to acquire India, Middle East and SAARC operations of 3D Networks and Planet PSG in an all cash deal. The consideration includes an upfront cash payment of approximately USD 23 million on closure of the transaction and additional performance linked payments based on achieving agreed financial targets over a two-year period.

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Storage Accounts for 15% of Data Center Budget at Fortune 1000 Organisations

"For the last four Waves of research, installed storage capacity in the Fortune 1000 has doubled every ten months. It is an astonishing rate, with staffing and backup administration struggling to keep up," stated Robert Stevenson, Managing Director of TheInfoPro’s Storage Sector. Furthermore, the percentage of the Fortune 1000 data center budget dedicated to storage has also seen a rapid increase. According to the most recent research report, almost 50% of the Fortune 1000 organisations interviewed stated that storage occupies more than 15% of their data centre budget, with consolidation and virtualisation strategies ranking high among the Fortune 1000 as the top cost-saving storage initiatives.

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SEMphonic Adds MSN, Ask and AOL to Competitive Tracking Service

SEMphonic has added MSN, Ask and AOL to its Competitive Tracking Service for enterprises. Companies will now be able to track what the competition is doing, saying, optimising and spending in Search Engine Marketing on those additional search engines. Additionally, the Competitive Tracking Service for Enterprises adds the ability to track the actual text listing (Paid and now Organic) on each search engine, a tool for ongoing SEO analysis, as per the statement issued by the company.

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Cisco Buys Mobile Software Maker Orative

Cisco has acquired the privately held company, Orative of San Jose, California. Cisco said the deal would allow it to add wireless connectivity to its "Unified Communications" system, which integrates the companies' phone, Internet and video services. In March 2006, Cisco announced its Unified Communications system based on Cisco's Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA), which is said to enable businesses of all sizes to integrate their communications systems with their IT infrastructure, thereby creating a single communications platform. The Cisco Unified Communications system of voice, video and IP communications products and applications is said to enable organisations to communicate by leveraging all services located in the network from anywhere, with any device, at anytime.

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Oracle, Intel Partner on Enterprise Computing

Oracle and Intel have revealed a joint effort to help accelerate deployment of solutions based on Oracle and Intel technology. The effort builds on a longstanding enterprise computing relationship and is expected to deliver a new level of performance to customers using Oracle solutions running on Intel Core microarchitecture-based Linux servers.

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Microsoft Reports First Quarter Earnings, Claims Double Digit Revenue Growth

Microsoft has revealed its first quarter revenue of USD 10.81 billion for the period ended September 30, 2006, an 11% increase over the same quarter of the prior year. Operating income for the quarter was USD 4.47 billion, an 11% increase compared with USD 4.05 billion in the prior year period. Net income and diluted earnings per share for the first quarter were USD 3.48 billion and USD 0.35 per share. For the same quarter of the previous year, net income and diluted earnings per share were USD 3.14 billion and USD 0.29, including a USD 0.02 per share charge for certain legal charges.

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IBM Sues Amazon Over Patents

IBM has filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Amazon.com for unspecified damages. The lawsuits come after nearly four years of attempts by IBM to resolve its concerns with Amazon.com over infringement of IBM’s patents, said the company.
"We filed this case for a very simple reason. IBM's property is being knowingly and unfairly exploited," said Dr. John E. Kelly III, senior vice president of IBM Technology and Intellectual Property.

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Survey Predicts Uptick in Average Starting Salaries for IT Professionals

Information technology (IT) professionals in the United States can expect starting salaries in 2007 to increase an average of 2.8 percent over 2006. Larger increases in base compensation are expected in high-demand roles such as software developer, web developer and data warehouse manager, according to the Robert Half Technology 2007 Salary Guide.

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IBM and Vietnamese Finance Ministry Working on Financial Management Reform Plan

The Ministry of Finance (MOF) and IBM have reaffirmed each other's commitment to the Treasury & Budget Management Information System (TABMIS) project. Teams from both organisations reported on the progress of the TABMIS project to date. The TABMIS project—inked in December 2006 in a deal worth USD 49 million and funded by the World Bank—is set to reform the Vietnamese financial and budget management system to enhance its performance measurement and standardise its financial control mechanisms, as per the statement issued by the company.

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Oracle Unveils WebCenter Suite Enterprise Web2.0 Application

Oracle has rolled out the Oracle WebCenter Suite, a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle WebCenter Suite is said to improve information worker productivity by delivering a unified, context-aware user experience that integrates a full set of enterprise services. It delivers a unified environment that provides user access to business applications, structured and un-structured content, business intelligence, enterprise search, business processes, and communication and collaboration services, Oracle said.

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TPG, Intel Invest in Vietnam's FPT Corporation

Vietnam FPT has issued new shares to private equity firm Texas Pacific Group (TPG) and Intel Capital, the venture capital organisation of Intel Corporation. Under the terms of the agreement, FPT received a total investment of USD 36.5 million, from TPG, through its TPG Ventures fund, and Intel Capital. This marks one of the largest cross-border investments into Vietnam by global investment firms.

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Yahoo! Time Capsule on the Canyon Walls

Yahoo! is planning to showcase select contributions from the Yahoo! Time Capsule on the canyon walls that cradle one of the world's oldest known communities at the ancient pueblo of Jemez in New Mexico. More than fifteen hours of pictures, videos, poems and stories from one of the largest Internet time capsules in history will be projected throughout the evenings of October 25-27 to chronicle humanity across the globe. The images will also be sent into space via a digital laser light beam from the canyon, Yahoo said.

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IBM, Oracle Team to Meet Linux on Mainframe Demand

IBM and Oracle join hands in a strategic initiative to collaborate on the sales and marketing of a series of enterprise business solutions with Oracle applications and technology for Linux on System z in order to target the business requirements of large and medium size enterprise customers and meet growing market demand. This initiative complements a series of investments IBM and Oracle have made in support of Linux as an enterprise application platform.

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Oracle Buys OSS Service Fulfillment Vendor MetaSolv

Oracle has acquired MetaSolv Software, a provider of service fulfilment Operations Support System (OSS) solutions for the communications and media industry, through a cash merger for USD 4.10 per share, or approximately USD 219.2 million. The agreement is subject to stockholder and regulatory approval and is expected to close in late 2006 or early 2007.

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Enterprises Should Standardise on the IE7 Browser

Enterprises should standardise on the IE7 browser, according to Info-Tech Research Group. The research group also found that the security and usability features in IE7 and Firefox 2.0 are converging to the point where there is no longer a clear leader between the two. Although Microsoft has played catch-up to some degree with IE7, it has done a serviceable job of closing the features gap with Mozilla by adding some of the major usability and security features long present in other browsers, including:

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Gateway Recalls 35,000 Sony-made Batteries

Gateway is planning to recall approximately 35,000 lithium ion batteries containing battery cells manufactured by Sony. Gateway has identified that lithium-ion batteries manufactured by Sony can potentially overheat under rare circumstances. While Gateway has not identified any failures of this type in Gateway systems using these batteries, the company is cooperating with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Sony to act in the interest of customer safety by initiating a voluntary recall of all affected batteries.

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Symantec, McAfee Should have Prepared Better for Vista, says Sophos

Symantec and McAfee 'should have prepared better' for Microsoft Vista, rival IT security firm Sophos claimed. Symantec and McAfee have recently made high-profile complaints that they are being 'locked out' of the Vista operating system kernel by Microsoft's PatchGuard technology. It is claimed that this allegedly anti-competitive move by Microsoft will prevent security firms from developing Host Intrusion Prevention (HIPS) systems for Vista to protect against new malware.

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Enterprise IT Service Levels Likely to Decline

Enterprise service levels are likely to decline because of inflexible enterprise systems and the inability to accurately interpret and implement requirements. According to voke, the rush to deliver systems led to a decline in reliability in the 2001-2002 timeframe. As reliability declines and customer service dwindles, expectations for acceptable service levels will also decline over time; so gradually that future generations won’t know the difference and will spend 25% of their waking hours tracking down service providers such as banks, credit card, and insurance companies.

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Intervoice Increases Investment in China

Intervoice is increasing its investment in China by establishing dedicated sales and support personnel through its partnership with Alliance Digital. Intervoice has been selling and supporting its converged communications products in the Chinese market since 2001. The company developed its business in China by partnering with local and regional sales and distribution leaders such as Alliance Digital and IT Apps.

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Sophos Urges Australians to Improve their Online Security

Sophos has warned that business and home Internet users in Australia must take greater precautions to guard against continuously emerging malicious computer threats. In September 2006, Sophos identified 4,080 new threats, compared with just 1,998 in the previous month, bringing the total number of malware protected against to 190,745. This significant rise in threats comes in spite of a reduction in the volume of malware being distributed via infected e-mails, now just one in 300. This clearly indicates that cyber criminals are moving away from mass-e-mailed attacks in favour of more subtle and menacing attacks, such as phishing campaigns and spyware, targeted at small groups of computer users.

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Skills Gap, Staff Shortage Hurt Technology Surge in India

Is there a slowdown in corporate skill set in India? This is a question that has been spreading ominously worldwide. The Indian IT industry seems to be faced with a dearth of skilled engineers. Indian outsourcers are managing despite the shortages by hiring plain science graduates and re-training them for engineering work, Wipro Chairman Azim Premji told reporters.

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SMBs Underuse CRM in Exit Strategy, says Study

Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) have opportunities to use CRM to obtain value from their business at an exit, succession or transition according to a new Sage Software Business Minds survey conducted by Vanson Bourne. With a large number of SMBs looking to exit in the next few years, Sage warns these businesses need to find ways to compete more effectively and to differentiate themselves in a buyer's market.

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AMD Profit Margin Hit by Price War with Intel

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has reported that its profit margin took a hit in its most recent quarter because of its price war with Intel. Some investors are concerned, the two rivals will wage another bruising price battle in the upcoming all-important fourth quarter or next year. While AMD's net profit rose, its gross margin, a key measure of profitability tumbled to 51.4 percent in the third quarter from 56.8 percent the previous quarter, raising concerns about the chipmaker's ability to battle Intel.

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Logitech Acquires Squeezebox Maker Slim Devices

Logitech has acquired Slim Devices, a provider of music systems that take advantage of a home network. Logitech purchased the privately held Slim Devices of Mountain View, California for USD 20 million in cash plus a possible performance-based payment, tied to reaching certain future revenue targets.

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Adobe Buys Video Software Maker Serious Magic

Adobe has acquired Serious Magic, a maker of video software and communications tools for professional, business, consumer, and education markets. With Serious Magic solutions such as DV Rack extending direct-to-disk recording and monitoring into the field and Visual Communicator and Vlog It delivering the power of video communication to general business users and casual bloggers, the acquisition strengthens Adobe's position in video software for both video professionals and consumers, as per the statement issued by the company.

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Yahoo! Launches Messenger 8.0 in Hindi, Tamil

Yahoo! India has launched Indichat plug-in, which enables users to chat in Hindi and Tamil without a language keyboard. The user can load the Side Panel plug-in and start chatting in Hindi and Tamil, the company said. Yahoo! India also offers other plug-ins, which facilitate chat in other Indian languages like Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati and Malayalam. Also, a user with any language keyboard can chat on Yahoo! Messenger 8.0 in that language, Yahoo said.

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Microsoft Postpones Windows XP Service Pack 3 to 2008

Microsoft is not releasing Service Pack 3 for Windows XP until the first half of 2008. Windows Server 2003's SP2 release date has also been pushed back from the second half of 2006 to first quarter 2007. Microsoft did not give an explanation for the delays.

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Wyse Technologies to Make Thin Clients in India

Wyse is exploring options to manufacture thin client computing devices in India. Tarkan Maner, who is President for Worldwide Field Operations at Wyse, said the company was in talks with a few Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in India and may finalise a partner over the next three to four months. While Maner declined further details, he said that they will be based in two cities, including Chennai.

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Wyse Technologies to Make Thin Clients in India

Wyse is exploring options to manufacture thin client computing devices in India. Tarkan Maner, who is President for Worldwide Field Operations at Wyse, said the company was in talks with a few Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in India and may finalise a partner over the next three to four months. While Maner declined further details, he said that they will be based in two cities, including Chennai.

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IBM Develops Courses in Web 2.0 Technologies for University Students

IBM and The University of Arizona have joined hands in a collaborative initiative to develop a course aimed at helping developers build online communities and social network systems using Web 2.0 technologies. The curriculum, which is designed to equip students with skills in the creation and management of online communities, will be offered to the Management Information Systems Department (MIS) and Marketing students in The University of Arizona's Eller College of Management.

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Wipro Eyes Acquisitions in India and China

Wipro has plans to expand its operations in China and India. The company currently has two centres in China—at Shanghai and Beijing—employing around 100 people, Wipro's chairman Azim Premji said. "But we are rapidly expanding there (in China) and we will continue to expand there," he added. The company is on the lookout for strategic acquisitions in consumer care as well as in the IT sector in India to sustain its inorganic growth.

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Telecom New Zealand Opens Singapore Office

Telecom New Zealand has expanded its global operations with the opening of a new Singapore office this week. “The opening of the Singapore office will be a key factor in enabling us to extend our soft switch network into Asia,” Head of International Wholesale John Mitchell said.

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Sapient CEO, CFO Resign, Co-chair Steps Down Amid Stock Options Probe

Sapient‘s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) have resigned and its co-chairman stepped down amid an internal review of its stock-based compensation practices. Sapient has said it found errors relating to stock option grants, and that it would restate past financial results. The company said financial statements and all earnings relating to periods beginning in January 1997 should not be relied upon. Sapient’s board of directors has named executive vice president Alan J. Herrick to the position of president and chief executive officer. He succeeds former co-chairman and chief executive officer Jerry A. Greenberg, who has resigned from the company and its board.

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Zimbra Crosses Four Million Paid Mailbox Milestone

Zimbra has more than four million paid Zimbra mailboxes globally through onsite deployments and its hosted partner program. "The worldwide growth we have experienced since launching a year ago is a clear indication that the market is ready for a collaboration alternative with a strong foundation in innovation and open source," said Satish Dharmaraj, Zimbra CEO and co-founder.

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Will Yahoo Monetise Flickr and Del.icio.os?

Yahoo has plans to 'monetise' their various social network properties, said, Yahoo's COO, Daniel L. Rosenweig. He characterised Flickr and de.lic.io.us as being largely unmonetised and talked about leveraging these 'assets' and targeting and profiling a large growing registered audience base. It will be interesting to see how some of Yahoo's popular web properties change through the monetisation process.

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IBM Q3 '06 Revenue Up 47% from Q3 '05

IBM has revealed the third-quarter 2006 earnings of USD 1.45 per share from continuing operations, an increase of 54 percent as reported, compared with diluted earnings of USD 0.94 per share in the third quarter of 2005; the third-quarter 2005 diluted earnings include USD 0.32 per share for a one-time charge of USD 525 million for taxes in connection with the 2005 repatriation of foreign earnings. Diluted earnings per share for the third-quarter 2006 grew 15 percent compared with the year-ago quarter of USD 1.26 per diluted share, without the one-time per share charge.

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Intel Q3 '06 Revenue Down 12% from Q3 '05

Intel’s third- quarter profit fell 35 percent as it sought to reverse a slide in its market share. Intel ended the second quarter with its lowest market share in four years. The company's share of the global chip market fell to 11.4 percent in the second quarter, down from 13.2 percent in the first quarter.

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HP Unveils SmartOffice 2006 Goodies In New Delhi

HP has rolled out the HP Smart Office portfolio of computing, imaging and printing products and solutions targeted at Small and Medium size Business (SMB) segment in Asia Pacific. The offerings include an expansion of HP's business protection portfolio as well as financing and online resources, and new networking tools that extend its alliance with Cisco Systems, as per a statement issued by the company.

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Yahoo Beefs Up Rich Media Advertising Portfolio with AdInterax Buy

Yahoo has agreed to acquire AdInterax, which helps companies make and manage online advertising that incorporates animation and video, for an undisclosed amount. Yahoo claims buying AdInterax will help it provide rich media advertising creation and campaign management tools to marketers.

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Yahoo Buys 20% Stake in Right Media

Yahoo has acquired a 20 percent investment in Right Media, a company that operates an automated Web-based exchange for the buying and selling of online advertising through an open auction.

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Dual Factor Authentication Adoption in Asia Growing

The Dual Factor Authentication (DFA) adoption by financial institutions in Asia is growing, as per a report by IDC. The increasing number of Internet-based attacks have resulted in financial institutions adding an additional layer of security to their online channels for increased protection, otherwise known as dual factor or two factor authentication.

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Apple CEO Not Worried about Microsoft Zune

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has dismissed Microsoft's Zune music player, saying he was not impressed with the new entrant. Jobs said the music sharing abilities of the player were too complicated and slow. "It takes forever," Jobs chided. "By the time you've gone through all that, the girl's got up and left! You're much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you're connected with about two feet of headphone cable."

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Sony Recalls Vaio Batteries

Sony has plans to recall 60,000 lithium-ion battery packs in Vaio laptop computers in Japan and 30,000 in China due to potential overheating problems, bringing the estimated number put on recall programs worldwide to more than eight million.

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SAP NetWeaver Fund Makes Strategic Investment in ArisGlobal

SAP AG has made an investment in ArisGlobal, a provider of pharmacovigilance and safety registration information management solutions to the Clinical Research Organisation (CRO) markets. The announcement marks the second investment for SAP’s USD125 million global SAP NetWeaver Fund built on the SAP NetWeaver platform.

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Wipro Records 42% Growth In Profits

Wipro has recorded a 42% growth in profits as the Board of Directors approved its audited results for the year ended March 2004. Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro, commenting on the results said, "Our combined IT products and services business recorded a revenue of USD 1.2 billion. Revenue from our IT Services businesses alone was USD 1 billion. Looking ahead, for the quarter ending June 2004, we expect our Revenue from our Global IT Services business to be approximately USD 292 million."]

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Intermec's C3 Ushers Supply Chain Mobility

Intermec has introduced CN3, which the company claims is the smallest mobile computer that brings with it supply chain mobility. With the introduction of the CN3, mobile workers can expect to set aside the multiple devices they typically must carry and maintain cell phone, GPS unit, pager, laptop, camera for a single device. Because the CN3 is priced lower than typical rugged WAN mobile computers and combines a form factor and level of functionality previously met only by multiple devices, the company said.

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Sterling Commerce Enhances Supply Chain Applications

Sterling Commerce has introduced enhancements to its supply chain applications portfolio that benefit both Sterling Commerce customers and their extended trading communities. These enhancements intend on reducing the complexity of managing supply chain execution, enabling companies to create new growth opportunities by differentiating themselves and increasing revenue.

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New Middleware Mobility Platform Ushers Interactivity with Sensor Networks

NTT DoCoMo and Hewlett-Packard (HP) have been conducting a joint research with the goals of developing a new application platform to interconnect cellular telephone systems and sensor networks and the development of a prototype of new middleware platform. Designed to work with networks found in homes and businesses that utilise sensors relying on a variety of transmission methods (hereafter, 'sensor networks'), the Sensor Network Middleware Platform enables interactive communication between those networks and mobile phones.

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Changing Role of CMO will Drive Adoption of CRM

A key driver for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Customer Intelligence (CI) over the next 12 months will be the changing role of Chief Marketing Officers (CMO) within the organisation as they become more accountable to the CEO and are required to demonstrate alignment of day-to-day marketing operations with long-term strategic goals. In the report 'Worldwide CRM Analytic Applications 2005 Vendor Shares: Consolidation Continues in an Expanding Market', IDC calculates that CRM analytic applications revenue grew 11.3 percent in 2005 reaching USD 1.14 billion.

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Big Blue Gives Five Years for Mainframe Simplification Drive

IBM has revealed a cross-company effort to make the IBM System z mainframe easier to use for a greater number of computer professionals by 2011. The goal of this five-year effort, which will include an investment of approximately USD 100 million, is to enable technology administrators and computer programmers to program, manage and administer a mainframe system as well as to automate the development and deployment of applications for the mainframe environment.

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FREE DOWNLOAD: Eclipse Magazine, Volume 03

The Eclipse Magazine's (http://www.eclipsemag.net/) mission is to power the Eclipse ecosystem with top-class information that will promote and hone the use of Eclipse worldwide. Focusing exclusively on Eclipse and the community around it, the magazine helps its readership make informed decisions about putting Eclipse and related technologies to effective use. Volume 03 of Eclipse Magazine, covering the following topics, is now available for FREE DOWNLOAD.

* Comparison Test for Current SWT GUI Builders
* Interview with Dave Chappel, Sonic Software
* Achieve SOA Objectives with Eclipse Framework
* Eclipse For the Automobile Industry
* What Draws Large ISVs to Eclipse?
* Subversion: Version 1.4.x and Growing
* Plug-in-Parade: SlickEdit Plug-in for Eclipse


By registering for a free download of Eclipse Magazine, you have FREE access to Eclipse Magazine's download center, from where you can also read past issues (Volume 01 and Volume 02) of the magazine.

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Server Virtualisation, Service Oriented Architecture Key to IT Flexibility

Server Virtualisation and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) are key technologies for organisations seeking to create a more flexible IT environment, according to a new report 'Achieving IT Flexibility' published by Butler Group, Europe's IT research and advisory organisation. However, whilst interest in both technologies is high, the implementation experience is very different.

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IONA Revs Artix Enterprise Service Bus

IONA Technologieshas unveiled Artix Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and expansion of its partner relationship with AmberPoint. The new release builds upon IONA's component-based core technology required for SOA deployments and delivers functionality in the areas of standards support, management, and service orchestration.

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SAS, Actuate Joins IBM SOA Specialty Program

SAS and Actuate have revealed their acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty program after completing IBM’s SOA technical and business requirements. This enables the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform to integrate with the IBM SOA Foundation, which is a single, open set of software and patterns. This achievement, also paves the way for integration of the Actuate platform with the IBM SOA Foundation. Customers of IBM and Actuate can now take advantage of a common approach to SOA to integrate business intelligence and performance management capabilities into applications to support the complete spectrum of business processes, the company noted.

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As You SOA So Shall You Reap

With so much emphasis on SOA these days, there is a heightened focus on its deployment, success and demonstrable ROI. In fact, Gartner states that the worldwide market opportunity for SOA, including software and services, will continue to grow through 2008 when it is expected to reach USD 143 billion. Further, Aberdeen recently underscored the growing value of SOA with its findings that companies can save up to USD 53 billion in IT spending over the next five years by implementing a service-oriented architecture.

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BEA AquaLogic Optimises BPM for SOA

BEA Systems has unveiled AquaLogic BPM Suite 5.7, the first release since BEA acquired Fuego in March 2006. The new release takes a step forward in bringing Business Process Management (BPM) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) closer together.

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BEA Revs RFID Infrastructure Software

BEA Systems has unveiled the BEA WebLogic RFID Enterprise Server 2.0. A core component of the BEA WebLogic RFID product family, BEA WebLogic RFID Enterprise Server aims to help enable central management of RFID data collected at the 'edge' of an enterprise, that is inside a retail store, warehouse or data centre. BEA WebLogic RFID product family is key component of the BEA SOA 360 platform.

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Ramco's ERP for FieldFresh

Ramco Systems, a provider of enterprise applications, has won an order from FieldFresh Foods, to address its supply chain management requirements apart from providing financial management, sales management, procurement management, inventory management and corporate performance management. FieldFresh Foods, a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and Rothschild, is engaged in providing fresh produce to the markets worldwide

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SAP ERP to SWIFT Banking Communications

SAP and Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) have joined forces to introduce the SAP Integration Package for SWIFT—a standardised software solution that will be designed to link SAP ERP solutions directly to SWIFTNet, the IP-based messaging platform connecting nearly 8,000 financial institutions in 206 countries and territories.

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TOGAF 8 Certifications Galore At Infosys

Over 148 professionals at Infosys Technologies have achieved certification for The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF 8). This has resulted in the largest number of professionals with this accreditation at any one company in the world, said an Infosys spokesperson. The Open Group is a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises.

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Linux, PDAs, Storage, and Portable Consumer Products Drive ICT Growth

The ICT industry is expected to grow by 6% in 2006, mainly driven by Internet-related investments, Linux servers, digital storage, personal digital assistants and new portable consumer products. But any return to the heady days of 20% and 30% growth in many products and market segments. Read more on SDA India