JDJ: Tell us about your Jasmine product. Lipton: Most people are familiar with the current release of Jasmine, 1.21 - it`s a powerful object database with some characteristics that people tend to associate with application servers. The typical object database is a passive repository for the state of an object, but in the case of Jasmine objects have both state and behavior. In a Jasmine 1.21 environment objects aren`t just sitting there being persisted but are actually doing all kinds of work. That`s how the current technology works, but of course what we`re most excited about is what we`re working on now.

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IBM has developed a set of WSDM tools - The Manageability Endpoint Builder, Management Endpoint Simulator and the Autonomic Task Manager For Administrators. These are available as part of IBM`s Autonomic Integrated Development Environment (AIDE) and are based on an architecture for connecting computing resources with management applications through standard- based interfaces.

Quest Software and JBoss, Inc. have announced that Quest has become the first J2EE management vendor to be named a Premier JBoss Certified Solution Partner. Through this strategic partnership, the companies will work together to certify and market solutions that empower IT architects and developers with greater reliability and management of their critical open source environments.

IBM is embracing SOA...in a bear hug. In a teleconference fronted by Steve Mills, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, IBM Software Group and the General Manager of WebSphere, Robert LeBlanc, it was manifestly apparent that the company - which considers itself the world`s leading provider of technologies that support Business Integration and Business Process Integration - is not looking over its shoulder, not at Oracle nor anyone else. And IBM Global Services turns out to be the secret ingredient of Blue`s software portfolio `realignment.`

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