AMBERPOINT HEDGED ITS bets this week, unveiling a .Net version of its Web services management solution that will complement its existing support for the J2EE environment. AmberPoint Management Foundation is designed to deliver management capabilities for Web services applications built on Microsoft’s .Net framework, including mechanisms for Web services monitoring; security, authorization, and alerting; version and change control; and auditing and logging, according to company officials. Components in the new management suite have been implemented natively in the C# language. The .Net version of the suite will be available in December, while future upgrades to the suite will be released in both .Net and Java versions simultaneously. Company officials, many of whom originally hail from Sun Microsystems’ Forte development team, contend that enterprises are most likely to use a hybrid of Java and .Net, with J2EE considered the more enterprise-class solution and .Net as the easier platform on which to build. Also this week, Amberpoint secured its second round of capital funding: $13.6 million that the company claims will keep it operating into 2005. Software Development