Stories about: TIBCO Software

Tibco Software has upgraded its BusinessWorks enterprise service bus to leverage the Web Services BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) 2.0 specification.

Tibco Software on Monday announced its intention to offer its General Interface rich Internet application toolkit via an open source format. The product, based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), is being made available via open source as part of the company's announcement of General Interface Version 3.2, which supports the Firefox 1.5 browser.

Open-source company Jitterbit has unveiled version 1.1 of its application integration software adding in support for Web services publishing and LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol).

Service oriented architectures continue to capture attention; at the same time their complexities need managing.

At investment management firm Bridgewater Associates, access to real-time data is measured in market ticks. Data feeds containing quote and trade activity are expected to stream in at 124,000 messages per second this year, so even subsecond delays in the arrival of data can affect trading decisions and put the U.S.-based organization at a disadvantage.

Tibco Software and Adobe Systems plan to offer alternatives to the open-source Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) tools being created by the newly formed Open AJAX collaborative.

For Web apps, 2005 was the year of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). In addition to bringing rich GUIs to many high-profile commercial apps, AJAX got a boost from some top-notch toolkits including Backbase, JackBe, and Tibco General Interface. We also witnessed the emergence of static code analysis tools -- from vendors such as Compuware, Coverity, Fortify Software, and Secure Software -- as a promising way to identify software defects and security issues. JRules 5.0 broke new ground in exposing business rules to business users, and Borland reigned in our roundup of enterprise Java IDEs.

Microsoft has officially released its flagship database SQL Server 2005, a product the company said is now truly ready for big businesses.

As business intelligence becomes a critical component of daily operations, real-time data warehouses that can provide end users with rapid updates from transactional systems are increasingly sprouting up at companies.

The days of the fat, dumb pipe, are over. Server applications, and storage have been shouldering the intelligence and security burden for too long. By Leon Erlanger

Users last week expressed some skepticism about Sun Microsystems' plan to offer its application server software under an open-source license.