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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(InfoWorld) - NetSuite, a provider ofÂ hosted applications for midsize businesses, will announce Thursday that it has beefed up the electronic commerce capabilities of its software suite and has teamed up with online auction giant eBay Inc. in order to attract larger electronic retail (e-tail) customers. The on-demand vendor offers a combination of applications targeting customers whose businesses have outgrown Intuit's QuickBooks accounting software, but aren't looking to take on the complexity of enterprise applications provided by vendors like SAP and Oracle. To date, NetSuite's e-commerce capabilities have been aimed at electronic retailers whose Web sites generate average annual revenue of under $10 million. "We're now releasing features to target larger, midsize e-tailers, not just B2C [business-to-consumer], but also B2B [business-to-business]," Zach Nelson, NetSuite's CEO, said in a recent interview. "What we're offering is the full multi -- multisite, multilanguage, and multicurrency," he added. Many larger electronic retailers are running tens of Web sites and have previously had to integrate each of those sites separately with their back-end ERP and CRM applications, Nelson said. Going forward, NetSuite users will be able to publish different Web sites from a single NetSuite account, each site featuring its own products, domain name and specific look and feel. In terms of languages, NetSuite will support Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. NetSuite also announced a partnership with eBay to tightly integrate the auction site's online marketplace with NetSuite's applications suite. The integration will make it easier for users of NetSuite's applications to list and sell items on eBay, monitor live eBay auctions from within their NetSuite software, and then automatically create customer records and sales orders once an auction is completed. The two companies will offer the combination of their technologies to eBay's high-volume sellers who are called Power Sellers, Nelson said. The upper limitation for NetSuite's new e-commerce offerings going forward will likely be sellers with annual revenue of between $200 million and $300 million or those receiving more than 10,000 orders per day, Nelson said. However, he added that NetSuite already has several customers whose revenues are several billion dollars, notably integrated circuit vendor Linear Technology and ink and toner cartridge refill supplier Cartridge World. Nelson does see NetSuite's applications rivals getting more serious about appealing to electronic retailers. For instance, Oracle has its iStore e-commerce application, whileÂ SAP acquired e-commerce vendor PraxisÂ in November and Salesforce.com is turning its AppExchange Web site into a fully functioning online marketplace for hosted software. Â
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Vendors ship updated packages to fix the problem that could allow an attacker to take control of a system.
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Systinet on Monday is releasing an upgrade of its UDDI-based business services registry that adds a configurable services console, advanced classification management, and publishing wizards for mapping and publishing of service data.
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Dynamic Software has added support for MSN adCenter as part of their overall bid management system, BidMaximizer 4.0. According to Al Costanzo of Dynamic Software, BidMaximizer 4.0 will be &#8220;the only commercial bid management tool that will support all three PPC engines, including Google Adwords, Yahoo Panama and MSN adCenter.&#8221; Costanzo says that developing BidMaximizer 4.0 for [...]
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This is release 0.3.0 of ReactOS, an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003).   This release holds a few records - it is the most long-awaited release of ReactOS, it is the release which was preceded by 3 Release Candidates instead of usual 2, and at last ReactOS release never had so much changes since the last one.  This release's main feature is the networking ability - it's the first release where it is possible to download and install FireFox and browse the web, get mIRC (or some other irc client) and get to #reactos to chat a bit with developers. Or install command-line Samba-TNG client via the built-in package manager and use it to share files with Windows, Linux and MacOS X (all of them support SMB protocol)  But there are a bunch of changes beneath the "networking" feature: The kernel, drivers, applications, control panel applets, Win32 subsystem, boot loader, etc, etc was changed, improved, bugfixed and hackremoved. For the detailed overview it's advised to read the Changelog.  The compatibility with applications and drivers is also improved. In order to keep track of progress, the reactos.org website now features a ReactOS Compatibility Database. It allows to quickly look up the driver's version or some software which has been tested on various ReactOS releases and see how good it performs.  Thanks a lot to our core developers who are doing a fantastic job and to those people who submit patches for various small and big things - it really helps a lot, even if it is a formatting change!  Aleksey Bragin, ReactOS Project Coordinator http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/
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The company is shipping the open-source database for Linux and Windows to revive its usage. By Darrell Dunn. Computer Associates on Monday will take the next step in its open-source strategy with the announcement
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InfoWorld - 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.
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Latest PECL Releases:sam 0.2.0PDO_IBM 1.0.0SCA_SDO 1.1.0zip 1.8.1
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TechWeb - Global Logistics Technologies Inc. plans to launch next week an upgrade of its logistics and transportation system.
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(InfoWorld) - A massive computing grid helps eBayÂ make changes to its auction Web site on the fly while maintaining a 99.94 percent up time, said Paul Strong, a distinguished research scientist there. While eBay designed most of its grid infrastructure, the company also wants to participate in standards-setting communities to bring more improvements to computer grid technology, Strong said Tuesday during the GridWorld conference in Washington, D.C. EBay's core business is hosting Web-based auctions, not in creating new grid technologies, he said. "We don't see ourselves as an IT development shop for development tools," he said. By working together on grid standards, participants can help "transitions be less painful," he added. On Monday, the Open Grid Forum standards body officially opened for business, delivering on its commitment made in June to detail its goals during GridWorld. EBay has made great strides in its back-end technology since the late '90s, but the company still wants more improvements, including the ability to change the site's code nearly instantaneously, Strong said. Right now, the company, with more than 15,000 servers in its production environment, distributes new application code to its Web site every two weeks, he said. EBay developers write about 100,000 lines of code each week, and using a traditional grid made up of about 350 Windows, Linux and Solaris computers, the site takes about 20 minutes to update with the new features, Strong said. With 104 million items listed for auction on eBay every day, the company needs to keep the site running while those changes are happening, he added. "We can't afford to take the site down," he said. "It's like changing the engines on a jumbo jet mid-flight." About $1,608 worth of merchandise sells on eBay every second, and a vehicle sells every two minutes on average, Strong said. A trading card sells every six seconds, and a pound of the Korean food kimchi sells every minute. The site has seen huge growth since the late '90s, he noted. Ebay.com has gone from 54 million page views a day in June 1999 to 874 million in December 2005, Strong said. The site sent out 35 million e-mail messages a day in December, compared to 1 million a day in June '99. And the site's up time went from about 97 percent to 99.94 percent in that time period. Still, the company would like more grid functionality, Strong said. EBay would like to get closer to that mythical 99.999 percent up time, he said. "We break almost anything we use," he said. "We're pretty much at the extreme limit of what you can do with off-the-shelf technology." And eBay doesn't want to wait to update the site every two weeks, he added. "We want to be faster; we want to be more agile," he said. "If someone comes up with a cool change that's not that big, I'd like to be able to roll it tomorrow." Improvements in grid computing is where community standards can help, he said. "We believe everyone has something to contribute," he said to the GridWorld audience. "We'd like to share ... with the community." GridWorld is organized by IDG, the parent company of IDG News Service.
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InfoWorld - EBay will buy the technology assets of Kurant, a company that makes e-business software for small and medium-size businesses. The online auction company was primarily interested in acquiring Kurant's software relating to online stores, the companies said in a statement Thursday. Terms of the cash deal, which is expected to close by the end of March, were not disclosed. Kurant's flagship product is StoreSense, a software package for building e-commerce Web sites that includes software for supply chain management, secure transaction processing and wireless shopping. EBay expects to hire nearly all of Kurant's employees and to support its current customers.
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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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Searching for signal amid the noise of analyst upgrades and downgrades.
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TechWeb - Other popular software with new versions in the upgraded repository include ActiveMQ, Apache HTTP Server, AspectJ, JasperReports, Maven, Tomahawk, MySQL, PHP, PostgreSQL, Regexp and Tomcat.
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The Open-Xchange Server software is released for download.
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SaaS (software as a service) platform vendor NetSuite&#160;has released SuiteBundler, a tool its partner ISVs and VARs can use to create reusable applications for verticals.&quot;It&#39;s more important for our partners than it is for NetSuite,&quot; NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson said of the release, which provides a wizard-like interface for combining assets built on the NetSuite platform. It also includes distribution and installation tools and access to a repository of these &quot;SuiteBundles.&quot;Software development firm EBS-RAD LLC, based in Tampa, Florida, created a custom NetSuite app, i-Seaports Management, for its customer, Harbour Mastery. That firm in turn will market the software to seaports and marinas around the world, said EBS-RAD CEO George Walters.&quot;We&#39;re effectively making it very easy for services companies to get into the software business,&quot; Nelson said.Bundles have been created for a number of other verticals, including agricultural equipment dealerships, retail point-of-sale, and wholesale electronics distribution, according to the company.NetSuite&#39;s announcement drew a cautious nod from one industry observer Wednesday. &quot;At a 60,000 foot view, it seems like a good thing,&quot; said Michael Speyer, a Forrester Research senior analyst covering SMB&#160;and IT distribution issues. &quot;Especially for the larger midmarket clients. They&#39;re going to resist adopting apps that aren&#39;t customizable to their own existing processes.&quot;That makes sense because NetSuite has specifically targeted such customers. &quot;We think the midmarket is the huge opportunity,&quot; Nelson said. &quot;We believe NetSuite will be the SAP of the midmarket.&quot;But Speyer sounded a note of skepticism against such a lofty goal. &quot;Well, SAP is pretty firmly in the midmarket now,&quot; he said, noting offerings like Business All-in-One and Business One. &quot;So they are running head-on into SAP.&quot;NetSuite&#39;s approach to extending its SaaS platform stands in contrast to competitor Salesforce.com, which has aggressively promoted its programming language and development platform for creating new enterprise apps.&quot;Our environment is all about extending our applications,&quot; Nelson said. &quot;The mid-market doesn&#39;t want to build applications. They want to run businesses. Enterprises? They&#39;ll build applications all day.&quot;Nelson said one possible enterprise use of SuiteBuilder lies in application testing. NetSuite customers could try out new custom combinations in sandboxes before deploying them, he said.NetSuite previously announced it intends to issue an IPO. Earlier this year, it provided access to its services through the Apple iPhone.