Oracle Corporation is buying its struggling rival San Mateo-based Siebel Systems Inc. in a deal that values Siebel at USD 5.85 billion, continuing a recent shopping spree that has eliminated two of its biggest competitors as it aims to topple the industry leader, Germany's SAP AG, in the robust niche of customer management software...

ILOG has announced the availability of integration between ILOG JRules and Oracle BPEL Process Manager. By integrating the ILOG and Oracle products business users can use ILOG JRules, a key offering in ILOG's business rule management systems (BRMS) product line, to create and edit policies from within Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) applications in a familiar...

ILOG has unveiled ILOG JRules 5.1 with dual-platform support. ILOG JRules 5.1, a key offering in ILOG's business rule management system (BRMS) product line, makes it possible for business and IT professionals to collaborate on business rule development, execution and management and deploy on either Java or .NET platforms...

JBoss has unveiled its implementation of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 across several key products designed to dramatically simplify Java development. Building on its expertise and contributions to the forthcoming EJB 3.0 specification, JBoss is releasing powerful new versions of JBoss Application Server 4, Hibernate 3 and JBoss Eclipse IDE with EJB 3.0 support so...

Sun Microsystems has unveiled the early access availability of the Sun Service Registry for customers who need to track and manage increasing numbers of web services. Sun's Service Registry also includes an integrated repository for storing service metadata, and providing additional capabilities such as web services lifecycle...