The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has awarded a £100m contract for managed voice and messaging communications to Racal Telecom. John Edwards, project director at Racal, said: "This arrangement, which is essentially an outsourcing...
The products at the heart of this highly-contested number one spot are BEA's WebLogic server and IBM's WebSphere. Ian Doyle, senior architect at BEA, told silicon.com: "IBM's approach to WebSphere is as a branding umbrella for a range of products...
In addition, it offers a bridge to Microsoft's popular consumer MSN Messenger IM network, giving it a possible head-start on rivals lining up to court business customers with instant messaging products and services.
Other transport standards could be used, such as the JMS Java messaging standard, said O'Brien. In doing so, they will have to integrate it with workflow and other products. Web services are the missing link to make Wi-Fi suitable for business use...
Anyone with a middleware, messaging or EAI solution is quickly rebranding their portfolio with the ubiquitous web services message. Ever since the proprietary IT model died a death in the early 1980s the main problem facing every organisation has...
The two companies said that interactivity between the Reuters Messaging and AOL IM services would be made possible through the creation of a virtual "bridge" between the applications' respective protocols and by translating outgoing and incoming...