Test Center Tracker: Tibco boards the ESB line

analysis
Dec 8, 20062 mins

All aboard the Tibco Express: Test Center Analyst Andrew Binstock has been at the wheel of ESBs (enterprise service bus), so he knows what he's looking for as he travels the road toward SOA. In his latest test-drive of Tibco's BusinessWorks 5.3, he discovers an "elegant, well-thought-out ESB implementation with advanced performance features and an intuitive designer." Coming soon: Novell vs. Apple? : Chief Techn

All aboard the Tibco Express: Test Center Analyst Andrew Binstock has been at the wheel of ESBs (enterprise service bus), so he knows what he’s looking for as he travels the road toward SOA. In his latest test-drive of Tibco’s BusinessWorks 5.3, he discovers an “elegant, well-thought-out ESB implementation with advanced performance features and an intuitive designer.”

Coming soon: Novell vs. Apple? : Chief Technologist Tom Yager digs deep into the ongoing legal battles that pit SCO and Microsoft against IBM, Novell, and plenty of other players. One of his predictions: Novell is going to take back ownership of System V UNIX, a valuable piece of technology that stands to give the company a real edge in the IT industry — and could transform the company into Apple’s next top adversary.

Vista’s security resumé: In case you’ve been on Saturn lately, you may have missed the news that Microsoft finally released its newest OS to the business world. Redmond has made assurances that security was a priority in Vista, and according to Security Adviser Roger A. Grimes, the company delivered big-time. While he expects that the OS will eventually be hacked — “anything super-popular gets hacked” — he says doing the deed won’t be easy.