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JBoss Acquires Rosetta ESB Technology
JBoss, a subsidiary of RedHat corporation has acquired the technology for an ESB from insurance company Aviva Canada. This is part of an overall ESB strategy by Open Source giant RedHat.
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IBM Donates WSDM Code to Apache
IBM has made a significant code contribution to Apache's WSDM implementation, Muse, and plans to support its evolution with dedicated developers.
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Apache Tuscany Releases First Milestone
Apache Tuscany released it's first milestone. Tuscany, an open source implementation of SCA and SDO. SCA, or Service Component Architecture and Service Data Objects.
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SOA Software and WSO2 Bring in VC Money
Draper Fisher leads an $11 Million investment round in SOA Software. Intel Capital, the Venture arm of the Santa Clara chipmaker has invested $4 Million dollars in WSO2, an open source software company.
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Apache Synapse Announces Milestone 2 Release
Apache Synapse is a lightweight Web Services and XML broker based on Apache Axis2 and Axiom. Synapse has the ability to route, transform and log messages passing through it. Synapse has reached Milestone 2 and is now available to the community.
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RedHat completes JBoss Acquisition
RedHat today announced the completion of the acquisition of JBoss; RedHat's goal with this acquisition is "to create a complete, end-to-end open source solution across the IT life cycle, from application development to testing and certification to production deployment." JBoss will become a distint division within RedHat and its open source projects and it's brand will be maintained.
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Abdera: Possible ROME Merger to form single Java Syndication stack
The Java community might soon have a single coherent stack for doing any form of syndication, by merging the efforts and contributions from all the key contributors in the field. Discussions have emerged between the creators of IBM's Atom Reference Implementation code, the ROME community, and others about merging into a new Apache project called Abdera.
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JBoss after Redhat
People have been wondering what is going on at JBoss and what the soon-to-close Redhat acquisition will mean for the company. ZDNet interviewed JBoss CEO / Founder Marc Fleury recently; summarizing the responses: there will be no change in direction, JBoss aims to commoditize the SOA space, a new ESB product is in the works, open source java would be nice, and JBoss is better than WebSphere CE.
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Benefits and Challenges of Open Source for Agile Teams
Open source technologies have had a positive impact on both the development and runtime environments of software applications - teams find they are better able to deliver expected functionality within timeframes acceptable to stakeholders. But open source is different, and Jeff Hodson has written about how an architecture-centric approach can help address some valid developer concerns.