Software upgrade KOs gas shipping auction system
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Fax machines running red hot at UK's National Grid A botched Oracle upgrade last Sunday has denied access to an online trading system used to sell space on the UK gas pipeline network. Fax machines have been running hot all week as every transaction has had to be entered manually.â¦
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Microsoft says update improves setup and overall usability. HP had said it was waiting for the update before it released its first product using the software.
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Kurant makes a software package for building e-commerce Web sites that includes software for supply chain management, secure transaction processing and wireless shopping.
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By Heather Rutz, The Lima News, Ohio  Feb. 16--LIMA -- The city's utilities department has completed the first phase of a computer system upgrade that is improving service for customers, field operations and plant management.
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Branching out in the SOA space, MuleSource will introduce Tuesday its Mule Galaxy software, an open source SOA governance platform with an integrated registry and repository.The company also will refresh its Mule open source ESB (enterprise service bus) and offer Mule Saturn, a lightweight BAM (business activity monitoring) tool that works with the ESB.Mule Galaxy 1.0 stores and manages SOA artifacts and provides governance and lifecycle management. MuleSource is positioning Galaxy, Mule, and Saturn as products that make SOA infrastructure software more accessible to enterprises. The Community edition of Galaxy is available now, and a fully tested enterprise edition is due in the second quarter of this year."Basically, [Galaxy] makes services? available through kind of a subscription, like an RSS feed, and it allows you to define [service levels]," Dave Rosenberg, MuleSource CEO, said.Working with Mule software or as a stand-alone component in an SOA infrastructure, Galaxy features a RESTful Atom Pub interface to simplify integration with frameworks such as Apache CXF and Windows Communication Foundation, MuleSource said. Support for artifact types is provided for Mule configuration, WSDL (Web Service Definition Language), policies, and custom artifacts. Enterprises can set their own policies.Governance, MuleSource said, will become increasingly important as the number of in-use services grows. Galaxy increases reuse and lowers application development costs, improves collaboration, and enables centralized control of policies and management, the company said.A Mule ESB user, while not planning to adopt Galaxy, nonetheless applauded its release."I think that's a great idea because the fact that it's open source allows a lot more transparency into what the code is doing and how it is doing it," said the user, Eugene Ciurana, director of systems infrastructure at LeapFrog Enterprises, makers of LeapFrog educational toys. LeapFrog has no plans to use Galaxy because its transactional systems do not leverage its Mule software.In the ESB space, MuleSouce is offering Mule 1.5 Enterprise Edition, a subscription-only enterprise packaging of the company's ESB integration platform. "This is the first time that we're splitting the community and enterprise versions," Rosenberg said.Mule's ESB moves and manages data between disparate systems. It supports multiple transport protocols, including Java Message Service, MQ Series, FTP, and HTTP. The ESB, MuleSource said, can process as many as 30 million messages per minute."We have higher performance at this point, we believe, than anybody," Rosenberg said. The enterprise-level product features remote diagnostics, patch management, and provisioning via the MuleHQ tool as well as support for BPEL and streaming of very large files. Remote diagnostics capabilities allow MuleSource support personnel to assess a system.Nested routers in the ESB decouple service implementations from service interfaces. Multiple models are supported to manage runtime behavior, including SEDA (staged event-driven architecture), pipeline, and streaming.LeapFrog has based its integrations on Mule."It?s the backbone for all the integration for all the Web platforms that LeapFrog has," said Ciurana. "LeapFrog is planning to do over 10 different Web sites and Web applications, and the Mule ESB ties all of them together across different environments and different countries, and it also ties [to] our third-party service providers," Ciurana said.Saturn, meanwhile, can track transactions that go through Mule. It works with Version 1.5 of the enterprise ESB. Saturn is a BAM tool for business processes and workflow. It complements SOA infrastructure by providing detailed logging and reporting on transactions.To provide visibility into transaction flows, developers and operations staff can drill down on transaction details and set message-level breakpoints for deep log analytics, according to MuleSource.Other features of Saturn include process visualization, root-cause analysis, and reporting on service-level agreements.Other companies, such as Iona, also have offered open source ESB technology. The open source ESB market, Rosenberg said, has made ESB more accessible by lowering the barrier to entry.LeapFrog has found that, even though it must pay for support for open source software, it still saves money on it compared to commercial software. The company last year spent almost $400,000 in open source subscriptions, but this figure would have risen to $1.6 million if commercial licenses were required, he said.Support for open source software also is superior to support on commercial software, Ciurana said. "That's the only way these guys can make money. They tend to be more customer oriented," he said.Mule 1.5 Enterprise and the beta version of Saturn are available Tuesday. Mule 1.5 prices start at $7,000 per year. Galaxy 1.0 Community, the untested version, will be offered Tuesday at no cost. The supported Galaxy 1.0 Enterprise product expected in the second quarter will feature subscription support, but no price has been set yet.
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Site Offer Save a whopping 50% on definitive MySQL guides
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TechWeb - Now with easy customization and process integration, will utility apps dominate?
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Microsoft gives us an update on Windows Home Server
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Virtualised SAN and NAS bid for your storage grid
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Macromedia is offering a new version of its Contribute 3 software that will make it easier for eBay sellers to create custom eBay stores.
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FileMaker today began shipping FileMaker Server 7 Advanced, an enhanced version of FileMaker Server 7 that provides advanced web publishing and connectivity options for efficiently managing shared solutions for desktop and web clients.
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Also: Microsoft plans new BizTalk release for this year. [News.com Extra]
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The software maker releases an upgraded version of its small-business management applications with new features for coordinating factory work.
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Are bid management tools still useful, or have they outlived their purpose?
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TechWeb - Vendor Invoice Management Version 5.1 is used to optimize vendor invoice processes. The product also includes built-in reporting and analytics.
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Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality.  Compiere released its newest Production Release 2.5.1f !  The emphasis of this release was the improved Server infrastructure.  You can now monitor the (accounting, request, workflow, alert) processors and their logs from the web. The default URL is http://localhost/compiereMonitor and requires to log on with a user id with System Administrator role.  New are also Alerts - you define the situation you want to be alerted of and Compiere will send an email with details, if the conditions are met.  Document Value based Workflows allow you to start a workflow automatically, if a certain condition is met in any Entity in the system. You can use this for example to do a credit check for new Business Partners or when the address was changed.  Together with the Document Process Workflows and Alerts, you can now model all Business Processes.  Due to Server Infrastructure changes, you need to - Delete the jboss sub-directory Before upgrading (extracting the zip/gz) - After upgrading, you need to define Accounting and Request Processors for your clients. They are created automatically if you create a new client, but not for existing ones.  If you have a translated system, you should run "Synchronize Terminology" after migration or after importing the translation.   The Toronto training was quickly fully booked.  Note that the next intensive training "from the source" is December 6-10 in Miami, FL ... and book early if you want to guarantee your seat.  You can find the latest release here:  https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=29057
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Under threat of hostile takeover, PeopleSoft offers freebies to customers that migrate to latest software release