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Open OLTP News
If there is anything that we at ZOIS Limited
come across that we think merits a note we will put it in here. The
items are in reverse chronological order, short and about OLTP on open
platforms (UNIX and OS of that ilk). Older items can be found in Old Open OLTP News
(which starts in May of 1998).
- Tuxedo 11g Announced - Has New Old Stuff (1 April 2010)
- Things seemed to rather stagnant in the world of Tuxedo, Oracle
had bought it, more or less by accident in purchasing Weblogic. They
didn't seem to know what it was or what to do with it. Today, and I
don't think it's an 'April Fool', they've announced a new Tuxedo,
branded in the Oracle way '11g'. This does have new stuff, but some of
it is actually old stuff that was in, then out, of previous releases.
The big news is the Tuxedo gets a CICS API. BEA's previous policy seemed to be to avoid doing this. Indeed, for a brief moment in time Tuxedo did have a CICS API back in the last century, branding it CIXS, or some-such. That disappeared fairly rapidly when IBM growled at them. The CICS API complements existing IBM Mainframe connection tools which seem to get a relaunch too.
Not to be outdone, elsewhere within the Native ATMI interface, language bindings have been produced for some fashionable scripting languages (Python and Ruby). These appear to be official efforts rather than the endorsement of an Open Source project. We would guess that they were done in demand to a specific customers requirement, though.
And, it's never-ending, Tuxedo finally gets a Java Connection Architecture (JCA). This means you can write standard connectivity stuff in, gulp, Websphere. A quid-pro-quo to IBM for the CICS API?
There's quite a lot of other stuff too, and this can be found at the official press release.
- MessageQ Back From The Dead (1 April 2010)
- While ratching around for further Tuxedo information, as seen above, it was noted that renewed prominence has been given to MessageQ. This Reliable Queue product was purchased by BEA from Digital (DEC), as was, a zillion Internet years ago (OK, 1997). It then got quietly forgotten about in the rush to Java at the turn of the millennium. But it now seems to have acquired a renewed prominence. Given what's happened to Tuxedo recently, would an MQ Series API be far behind?
- Jboss' ATMI Interface? (6 February 2008)
- One of the announcements that has sneaked out at the Jboss jamboree
is that there's a plan for a 'Tuxedo' API (presumably ATMI or its
'standardised' clone XATMI) for the Jboss architecture. There's
nothing on any of JBoss's web-sites.
It should be added the Arjuna Technologies is now part of the Red Hat family too now.
- Oracle Finally get BEA (16 January 2008)
- Oracle's overtures now appear to have been accepted by BEA, with an offer of just over $19 a share. This has been given the green light by the BEA board and all should be a formality from here on. Oracle and BEA have directly competing products in the Java Middleware market, so expect some changes there, even if it is a mashup re-branding exercise. The future for Tuxedo is less clear, but hopefully it will be better that simply being a fossilised cash-cow.
- Oracle Bids Up BEA (14 October 2007)
- As many of you will have seen on other more frequently updated news sites, Oracle has made a bid for BEA (Tuxedo and Weblogic). The cash offer (so somebody's been making it lately) weighed-in at $17 a share. Since then BEA's shares have gone higher and Oracle have gone quiet.
- UniKix on the Move (1 July 2006)
- A company called Clerity Solutions and now acquired what was known as SUN's Mainframe Rehosting product, better known by its original moniker UniKix, the venerable CICS clone.
- News on News (16 May 2006)
- Just to inform our readers that things haven't completely stalled here, we can post a small round-up of the stuff that's been noted over the past year. The most amusing thing would be that web-link formally known as http://www.transarc.com is now serving 'adult' advertisements. It would appear that IBM are no longer interested in this URL and it's been bagged by a another, "Moniker Privacy Services". Transarc was the company that brought us Encina and several DCE ports. It had been bought out by IBM. Elsewhere both IBM and BEA have released new major releases of TXSeries (v6) and Tuxedo (v9), BEA's offering looks pretty much as they did at v8, and so does IBM's at the user level. IBM do appear to have done a large amount of internal work on v6 to allow the removal of the Encina Toolkit and DCE. Our spin on this is that TXSeries CICS is being prepared for the full withdrawl of Encina and DCE Real Soon Now.
Archaeology
Anything about a year old is now found in Old Open OLTP News (which starts in May of 1998).
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