XML and Web Services In The News - Monday 03 March 2003

Commerce One Takes On Integration Stalwarts. Web Services Platform Tackles Complexity of Composite Apps.
Mark Jones and Heather Havenstein, Infoworld
Commerce One is set to release a Web services-based platform that in one fell swoop challenges emerging offerings from traditional ERP players and middleware integrators alike. Commerce One Conductor taps into the broader trend of redesigning enterprise applications and integration technologies around flexible service-oriented architectures.

Experts: Copyright Law Hurts Technology
Robert Lemos, CNET News.com
Attempts to protect copyrighted material have strayed from their original purpose, say lawyers, technologists and academics, but few can agree on the solution. Experts speaking at the University of California at Berkeley conference on the law and policy of digital rights management seem to agree that more is going wrong than right with the current approach to protecting digital content.

BEA Expands WebLogic Framework
Darryl K. Taft, eWEEK
BEA Systems Inc. opens its eWorld Developer Conference this week with an eye on converging integration and application development into a single architecture around its WebLogic line of products. BEA's integration platform adds more application connectivity and support for XML Query Language for manipulating and transforming XML messages.

McNealy: Sun Reduces the Complexity
Eric Lundquist and John Taschek, eWEEK
eWEEK interviews Sun President Scott McNealy at the analyst conference in San Francisco, asking about high-end competition from IBM Global Services and low-end competition from companies like Dell Computer Corp. which offer clustered systems running the Linux operating system. Though not dismissive of the competition, McNealy contended that the company is poised to capitalize on its past research and development efforts.

Microsoft Preps Windows XP Client for RTC, DRM Services for Windows Server 2003. As Greenwich Nears, SDKs Appear.
Paula Rooney, CRN
Microsoft is getting its Windows XP client ready for realtime communications (RTC) and digital rights management (DRM]) add-on services for Windows Server 2003. Redmond has released the Windows XP Peer-to-Peer Software Development Kit (SDK) which will enable developers and solution providers to create applications that will allow end users to communicate and collaborate in realtime, including instant messaging between users and enabled applications.