Stories about: Contivo

Cisco is embarking on a new direction as it announced Tuesday details of its first move into the messaging middleware business with its Application-Oriented Network (AON) business unit.

Web services standardization is advancing on several fronts, including choreography and intellectual property concerns, a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) official said in an interview this week.

Software vendor Commerce One Inc. will lay off 400 of its current 1,100 staff by the end of this year, the company said in a statement late Friday.

Commerce One unveiled its Web services strategy last Thursday with announcements of a slew of new partnerships to provide key technology enhancements such as guaranteed message delivery and data mapping to the company's new Web services platform.

Commerce One Inc. announced six new technology partnerships Wednesday to support the Commerce One Web services platform and its supplier relationship management application.

MetaMatrix ON MONDAY will issue the beta release of Version 3.0 of its data integration solution, with added support for SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and XML modeling technology to help modernize existing data assets for Web services and XML formats.

Data modeling and integration company Contivo Inc. this week inked a deal to bundle its Analyst product into BEA Systems Inc.'s WebLogic Integration 7.0 server.

Modeling and data integration company Contivo Inc. on Monday will release a new version of its Contivo EIM (Enterprise Integration Modeling) Solution that supports Web services, as well as provides better run-time functionality, a new parser, and improved testing and user interfaces.

As the ranks of e-commerce-enabled buyers grow daily, suppliers are now finding themselves scurrying to streamline and automate their supply chains.

Although the initial rush to create business-to-business online trading exchanges has been dominated by industry consortia and start-ups, suppliers are likely to find themselves in the catbird seat in deciding whether new exchanges live or die.

It's an old rule of fashion that what was once ‘in' and now ‘out' will eventually be ‘in' again. I spotted this rule in action today as I walked through a car yard and noticed the cars mostly featured upholstery cut from the curtains my mum used to hang in the seventies. Still daggy, but at least ‘in', according to preferences of this Adelaide-based Japanese car maker.