Stories about: iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions

While an economically bruised AOL Time Warner (AOLTW) has publically pledged to return to health by concentrating on its AOL Internet plans, the company has perhaps understandably kept under wraps the fact that part of those plans centre on leveraging America Online's instant messaging (IM) platform to edge its way into the business services market.

Even though Sun Microsystems's research and development (R&D) budget will be flat this year over the previous fiscal year, it is unlikely to impact Sun's investment in its pet software projects, according to an executive of the company.

Web services promise to make application integration easier, but they won't replace EAI (enterprise application integration) or other flavors of integration such as EDI (electronic data interchange), said Scott Opitz, senior vice president of marketing at webMethods .

Microsoft plans to use its 10th annual TechEd developer conference this week in New Orleans to advance its cause in the battle pitting the software behemoth against Sun Microsystems Inc. and its partners over Web services. But as Web services mature, issues such as security, manageability, and reliability are becoming critical.

Driven by the demands of Web services, EAI (enterprise application integration) vendors are maneuvering to reposition their technologies as companies seek long-term application integration solutions and evaluate competing offerings from application server vendors.

IBM and iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions will both attempt to move their respective Web services strategies forward at Java One next week, unwrapping new products they believe offer developers a smoother way to create, deploy, and integrate them.

At the JavaOne conference next week, Sun Microsystems and IBM will announce a joint plan to define a new Java specification intended to make life easier for developers building portals, an official with Sun's iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions division said Tuesday.

Sun Microsystems and AOL Time Warner (AOLTW) officially parted ways Sunday on their iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions alliance, as Sun will now take full control of the iPlanet staff and product line.

Tivoli Systems, the network management software arm of IBM, Monday made available the latest version of its threat management software that the company says now collects data from security devices from the likes of Network Associates, NFR Security and Secure Computing.

Tivoli Systems, the network management software arm of IBM, Monday made available the latest version of its threat management software that the company says now collects data from security devices from the likes of Network Associates, NFR Security and Secure Computing.

On 25 Februaury 1982 Stanford University electrical engineering student Andreas Bechtolsheim teamed up with fellow university mates Scott McNealy and Vinod Khosla as well as Bill Joy, a computer science student at the University of Califomia, Berkeley. From this partnership of four, Stanford University Network, better known as Sun, was born. Computerworld has briefly recaptured the past two decades with this timeline.