Red Hat has plans for a new private beta test of open source messaging software to begin next month, with hopes to reinvent a section of the server market currently ruled by proprietary vendors.
Open-source middleware consortium ObjectWeb has announced the Petals project, a step forward for its year-old Enterprise Service Bus initiative.
Three open-source projects are teaming up to create an alternative to software-integration products from IBM and other heavyweights.
The Apache Software Foundation is expected to launch this week an open-source integration server project, which is part of a bigger effort to create a full suite of Web services infrastructure software.
Continuing open source's encroachment into server software, Iona Technologies and an industry consortium launched on Monday a project for back-end integration.
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The Object Management Group, a standards body, is taking steps to make its back-office software collaborate with newer Web services standards.
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