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Oracle presented on Tuesday a comprehensive roadmap for its recently acquired BEA Systems middleware technologies, making BEA's application server Oracle's strategic Java container and pledging continued support for BEA customers.

Red Hat Thursday said its JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform would be available later this month and introduced three new open source projects designed to infuse transaction, management and other capabilities into its middleware software lineup.

The most well-rounded business process management system (BPMS) we've tested to date, Lombardi Software's Teamworks combines an execution and events monitoring engine with a close-knit IDE and tools for modeling and simulation analysis. With the inclusion of human-centric, collaborative workflow and services-based integration hooks, Teamworks can deliver near-seamless mapping, testing, and deployment to execute most any enterprise workflow. Where Teamworks truly stands out from other players is its well-integrated performance server, which draws on a unified tracking data store for both real-time process optimization and historical playback in design phase analysis, where testing for optimal flow and efficiency can be challenging.

SAP is allowing individual developers to buy a one-year subscription for its NetWeaver software in a move to bring new blood to the platform and expand its community of users.

Nexaweb on Monday is expanding its Enterprise Web 2.0 application platform, adding a client framework for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and Java as well as Web services enhancements.

Web services are almost irresistible. Every popular IDE makes them easy to build -- to unlock the data and business logic in legacy systems, to provision common functions that can be shared across multiple platforms, or to provide partner organizations direct access to information or applications. And by their nature, Web services helpfully describe themselves, allowing one system to find and interact with another with little or no human intervention.

Telelogic on Monday is announcing availability of Telelogic Tau 3.0, a model-driven development environment that the company is positioning for SOA.

Filling out its open source middleware stack, JBoss has unveiled its ESB (enterprise service bus) as well as revealing core technologies planned for an upcoming application server upgrade.

Tough business conditions often give rise to ingenious solutions. That was the case at Merrill Lynch several years ago when the economic boom went bust: An urgent desire to reduce IT overhead spurred a Web services initiative that has saved the company an estimated US$44 million in three years.

BEA Systems said on Wednesday that it was buying metadata repository vendor Flashline for an undisclosed sum.