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Sun Microsystems is updating its SOA and business integration software, adding a data management option and leveraging enterprise service bus capabilities based around the JBI (Java Business Integration) specification. Event processing and business process management are featured as well.

As more companies apply a service-oriented architecture approach to their IT systems, one user that became serious about its SOA deployment last year suggests its peers keep open minds about the new concept's possibilities.

Rich Green is in his second incarnation at Sun Microsystems, returning in May as executive vice president for software at the company. He is responsible for the Solaris Enterprise System, including the Solaris OS, the Java Enterprise System suites, N1 management software, Sun Studio and Java Studio developer tools. Green also heads up a variety of industry-standards efforts and open source communities. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Green last Friday at Sun offices in Menlo Park, California to discuss the open-sourcing of Java and Solaris, as well as a number of other topics pertaining to the company, including the recent changing of the guard at the CEO level at Sun.

Focusing on open source efforts, Sun Microsystems officials last week provided informational updates on the NetBeans IDE and GlassFish application server, noting that NetBeans will have an SOA bent and be extended for other languages besides Java.

Victoria's Department of Human Services (DHS) has awarded a $30 million contract to Fujitsu to deliver managed services to HealthSmart, the state's overall health ICT initiative.

What's the measure of a successful integration project? For Jamey Harvey, the deputy chief technology officer for the District of Columbia, it was the ability to get a map of all the abandoned cars that needed to be towed in the city.

Robert Brewin is a newly appointed co-CTO of software at Sun Microsystems. Tackling the application platform side of Sun software, Brewin is focusing on technologies such as Java, developer tools, Web services, and Web 2.0. The other co-CTO, Tim Marsland, keys in on technologies such as Solaris. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill spoke with Brewin this week about Java, Web 2.0, and what Sun is pondering in the area of software development.

Sun Microsystems has made its Java programming language a little more open-source friendly, releasing a major enterprise update at its annual developer conference Tuesday, and cautiously committing to turn Java into an open-source project.

Sun Microsystems is set to continue its commitment to eventually make all its software freely available, with the Tuesday release of several additional Java technology pieces to the open-source community.

JBoss has added to its Java middleware stack by acquiring transaction processing software from Arjuna Technologies and Hewlett-Packard, JBoss announced Monday.

Sun Microsystems said Wednesday that it will offer all its core software products as open-source, making all of its middleware, management and Java development tools free to use. The move follows Sun's decision last year to offer Solaris as open-source and is aimed at developers.