Stories by: Tom Sullivan

Making the latest kick in the application server races, BEA Systems on Monday slid WebLogic 9.0 onto the speedway.

Integrating open source applications is a task daunting enough to lead some companies toward proprietary products. To that end, a several startups this week revealed plans to offer prebuilt, certified solutions so customers have fewer integration migraines.

The open source community gained another BI option in the form of BIRT 1.0 on Monday, when the Eclipse organization announced general availability of the reporting tool.

BI just may be poised to become the next big piece of the open source puzzle.

Computer Associates International (CA) is looking to breathe new life into a long-quiet database and, in so doing, is gunning to make it perform better than Microsoft's SQL Server and Oracle's 10g.

PeopleSoft made its Enterprise One Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) 8.1 generally available this week.

Borland Software on Tuesday pried the lid off JBuilder X, the latest incarnation of its Java development environment, with feature improvements designed to increase developer productivity.

Red Hat announced a systems management module on Thursday at the LinuxWorld conference.

An underlying theme at this year's LinuxWorld conference is whether or not the stalwart Unix operating systems are still alive and kicking.

Sun Microsystems Inc. announced that several of its products are now available for the Linux operating system and touted the benefits of Linux desktops during a press conference here on Wednesday at the LinuxWorld conference.

Gartner analyst Larry Perlstein on Tuesday issued something of a report card on the forthcoming set of core Web services standards here at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo conference.