Stories about: eXcelon

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At InfoWorld's CTO Forum in April, BEA's Adam Bosworth talked about missing pieces of the Web services infrastructure. Some were usual suspects: reliable asynchronous transactions, more flexible programming techniques. But one of the items on Bosworth's wish list -- the high-performance XML message broker that he said BEA is developing -- struck me as novel.

Users wanting to monitor and manage the storage resources assigned to business-critical applications will now be able to do so more precisely and in real-time fashion with a new version of storage software that TeraCloud Corp. rolled out last week.

E-business technology provider Progress Software Corp. is purchasing XML (Extensible Markup Language) toolmaker eXcelon Corp. in a move that will allow the company to expand its e-business application integration products.

Web services provides great potential, but its growing pains will continue, according to panelists at a session of the Web Services Edge 2002 conference here on Thursday.

Closing out what shaped up as a season of standards proliferation, OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) on Tuesday conferred official status on yet another specification aimed at enabling companies to conduct business over the Internet.

BEA Systems Inc. Monday announced support from about a dozen software vendors for Weblogic Workshop, its Java development framework released in beta last month.

Ipedo this week is adding a standards-based query engine to its XML database that will give users a more intelligent, efficient and faster way to perform queries not only on documents but the data contained within those documents.

A growing number of organizations looking for a fast, secure way to link remote users and business partners are turning away from traditional IP Security-based VPNs and toward products and services based on Secure Sockets Layer technology.

Combining one company's focus on XML (Extensible Markup Language) application development with the other's vertical market consulting and services strengths, eXcelon Corp. and C-bridge Internet Solutions Inc. announced Wednesday that the two Massachusetts technology companies will merge.

Customers say they want them, vendors are scrambling to provide them, and opinions vary as to how to set them up correctly. They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that mission-critical business data that is finding expression in XML format. Currently, XML rivals HTTP, HTML, and SQL as one of the big hits on the top 10 chart of information management standards.