SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 7 May 2008 - Software Research, Inc. has announced general availability of major new specialized commands in its Patented eValid™ Website Test & Analysis Suite. eValid has introduced a powerful set of AJAX Playback Synchronization on DOM Element commands that provide direct control of test script playback synchronization by interaction with the current DOM of an AJAX page. This new eValid capability allows testers to address AJAX applications -- which by nature are "asynchronous" -- in a completely reliable way. Once the playback synchronization is determined, eValid test scripts play back reliably, independent of how long the internal AJAX operations require.

ANDOVER, Mass., May 13, 2008 - Vertica today unveiled the Vertica Analytic Database for the Cloud, a new, on-demand version of its blazingly fast, grid-enabled columnar database hosted on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The new pay-as-you-go offering enables companies to create large, high-performance analytic data marts without upfront data center costs and delays. Vertica for the Cloud completely changes the economics of business analytics, making it economically feasible to rapidly initiate a much broader spectrum of analytic projects and businesses.

HP and EDS today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase EDS at a price of $25.00 per share, or an enterprise value of approximately $13.9 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of calendar year 2008 and to more than double HP's services revenue, which amounted to $16.6 billion in fiscal 2007. The companies' collective services businesses, as of the end of each company's 2007 fiscal year, had annual revenues of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. HP intends to establish a new business group, to be branded EDS – an HP company, which will be headquartered at EDS's existing executive offices in Plano, Texas. HP plans that EDS will continue to be led after the deal closes by EDS Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Ronald A. Rittenmeyer, who will join HP's executive council and report to Mark Hurd, HP's chairman and chief executive officer.

REDWOOD CITY and SAN MATEO, Calif., May 12, 2008 -- Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, and Laszlo Systems, a global leader in Rich Internet Application (RIA) software and developer of the OpenLaszlo open source development platform, today announced that they are integrating the commercial versions of their award-winning Mobile 2.0 and Web 2.0 messaging solutions.

May 6, 2008 (Business Wire), JavaOne Conference, San Francisco, CA - Atlassian today announced the release of JIRA Studio, the all-in-one, on-demand development suite. JIRA Studio is a hosted development environment that solves one of the biggest headaches for developers: the deployment and maintenance of their tools. JIRA Studio includes many of Atlassian's award-winning products and provides a world-class issue tracker, an enterprise wiki for collaboration, as well as the ability to manage the code repository and manage code reviews.

ORLANDO, Fla. –Wireless Enterprise Symposium 2008 – May 13, 2008 –  Sybase iAnywhere today announced it will preview SQL Anywhere® for the BlackBerry® platform from Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) 2008 in booth #841, and deliver the product as part of the upcoming SQL Anywhere 11 release.  With the release, SQL Anywhere’s proven mobile database and synchronization platform is extended to the BlackBerry platform, providing application developers the ability to develop data rich applications for the frontlines of their business.

JavaOne, San Francisco, Calif.   07-MAY-2008 - Demonstrating its continued commitment to the Eclipse Foundation and Open Source Developer Community and furthering its dedication to providing Java developers productivity with choice, Oracle today announced the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, a new component of Oracle® Fusion Middleware.

JavaOne, San Francisco, May 6th 2008   Canoo announces that the upcoming release of its Rich Internet Application library, UltraLightClient, focuses on making the development and deployment of web applications faster and easier. A screencast tutorial shows how to build a master / detail web application from install to deployment within five minutes.

BEVERLY, Mass., May 7, 2008 – Altova® ( http://www.altova.com ), creator of XMLSpy®, the industry leading XML editor, and other popular XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, recently announced the availability of Altova XMLSpy Version 2008 Release 2 (v2008r2). The latest release of XMLSpy provides many new enhancements to help users optimize their XML development processes, including support for very large files, multiple features for optimizing XSLT development, a new Find in Schemas window, and much more.

The IBM’s Jazz project has just released the beta number 3 of its Rational Team Concert (also named Rational Team Concert 1.0 RC2), the first product based on the Jazz Team Server. I had the chance to attend recently in Geneva to an interesting presentation given by John Kellerman, the product manager of Jazz. A long time IBM employee, John worked already on the AD/Cycle project and has been a part of Eclipse since its origins in 1998. He gave an insightful speech on how a company can “develop commercial software in an open transparent way”.