SOA News Desk

"With the integration of Niku, CA will be able to deliver the broadest and most comprehensive IT governance and service management solutions on the market to help our customers fully align IT with the business," said CA President and CEO John Swainson, as he announced today that CA has signed a definitive agreement under which CA will acquire Niku - a leader in information technology management and governance (IT-MG) solutions - in an all-cash transaction valued at $21.00 per fully diluted common share, or approximately $350 million. "IT governance is the number one priority for CIOs as they demand that their IT investments contribute to the growth, productivity and profitability of their organizations. We look forward to working with the Niku team to leverage CA's existing systems management strengths and sales force to expand our offerings in what will be one of o... (more)

BEA Seeks "Ubiquity" Through Open Source Community, Say Its Top Execs

"Beehive" Now Officially an Open Source Project: Apache Beehive "BEA Today Will Open-Source the WebLogic Workshop Application Development Framework" Just two full working days after its stock crashed by 23 percent - its biggest drop in more than five years - BEA came out of the corner today fighting, with the announcement (already revealed by inside sources earlier today) that it was donating - to what CTO Scott Dietzen referred to as "Open Source Land" - the first open source application framework targeted at Java-based Web applications: "Project Beehive." "Project Beehive," as w... (more)

New Web Analytics Association Formed

Today, Web analytics industry experts, leading vendors and organizations that utilize Web analytics announced the formation of the Web Analytics Association (WAA). The mission of the not-for-profit organization is to unite and foster the interests of end-users, vendors, consultants and educators involved in measuring the success of their online business initiatives. "More than ever before, marketers are required to justify expenses based on metrics. Since the Web is a great medium for measurability and optimization, its no wonder that marketers are drawn to the online world," said... (more)

SOA Software To Build Web Services Architecture For JetBlue

SOA Software, the leading provider of comprehensive SOA and Web services management, security and governance solutions, today announced that JetBlue Airways (Nasdaq: JBLU) has selected Service Manager to create, secure, monitor and manage its Web services architecture. Widely deployed in Fortune 500 and large global organizations, Service Manager will enable JetBlue to expose numerous Microsoft .NET Web services for internal and external partner consumption. “We are very excited to be working with JetBlue,” said Eric Pulier, founder and executive chairman of SOA Softw... (more)

SYS-CON.TV's "SOA Web Services" and "Enterprise Open Source" Programs To Air in December

10th International "SOA Web Services Edge 2006 Conference & Expo" panel discussion taped live at SYS-CON.TV's Times Square studios will stream on Monday, December 5, 2005, and "Enterprise Open Source Power Panel" will stream on Wednesday, December 7, 2005. In this first "SOA and Web Services Power Panel" series, SYS-CON's group publisher and  "SOA Web Services Edge" conference chair Jeremy Geelan was joined by Eric Newcomer of IONA, Paul Lipton of CA, Aaron White of Mindreef and David Kershaw of Altova. "Enterprise Open Source Power Panel" participants included Andy Astor of Ent... (more)