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JNBRIDGE CELEBRATES TEN YEARS OF JAVA & .NET INTEROPERABILITY

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:50:57 +0000

Company to commemorate milestone with year-long series of events and activities

BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 31, 2012 â�� JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), a leading provider of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET Frameworks, today announced the 10-year anniversary of the company. Since 2002, JNBridge has grown from a start-up providing support for accessing Java classes from .NET to an award-winning interoperability tool provider for customers ranging in size from small independent software vendors to large global enterprises. JNBridge boasts some of the worldâ��s foremost companies as customers: including financial services, insurance, telecom, media, government, healthcare and manufacturing industries. To celebrate the companyâ��s 10-year milestone it will be looking both backwards and forwards: showcasing some of its current customer applications and inviting the developer community to create and share new use cases that incorporate new technologies, both in the cloud and on the ground. â��The past 10 years have been an incredible journey for our company and customers,â�� said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. â��The interest and demand for our Java .NET interoperability solutions continues to increase, and weâ��re continually amazed by the breadth of applications our customers incorporate our tools into. As we look ahead, we will continue to explore and provide technologies that address the evolving needs of developers in emerging industries.â�� Citrin co-founded the company in 2001 along with partner and COO Deborah Arhelger, back when .NET was still in beta. The company has achieved year-over-year growth without any outside investors. JNBridgeâ��s focus on providing rich, high performance, and simple-to-use interoperability tools has earned the company industry recognition and helped to build an impressive list of clients, including Adobe, Pfizer, Barclays, HBO, Boeing and GE. Â JNBridgeâ��s interoperability adapters and software have received numerous accolades over the years, including being cited as a Gartner Cool Vendor, Readerâ��s Choice Award from Visual Studio Magazine, and Best of Tech-Ed finalist. â��Microsoft values the relationships it has cultivated throughout the years with partners like JNBridge,â�� said Tom Lindeman, Director of the Visual Studio Industry Partner program at Microsoft. â��The technology of connecting .NET to other platforms allows us to extend our reach and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability.â�� For more information on the companyâ��s planned events and activities to celebrate its 10-year anniversary, please visit (www.jnbridge.com). About JNBridge JNBridge connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with tools and adapters that are fast, simple to use and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability, both in the cloud and on the ground. JNBridge is a privately-held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Celebrating 10years, JNBridge counts 25 percent of the Fortune 100 as its customers. The company has more than 450 unique customers in 40 countries that use its award-winning solutions in a wide variety of applications in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. Please visit (www.jnbridge.com) for more information.

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JNBRIDGE ANNOUNCES LATEST RELEASE OF JMS ADAPTERS FOR .NET AND BIZTALK SERVERS

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:56:38 +0000

Version 3.0 of the JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server adds support for JMS Map Messages

BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 7, 2011 â�� JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the award-winning provider of interoperability tools that connects the Java and .NET Frameworks, today announced the release of Version 3.0 of its JMS Adapters, which enables developers to access JMS (Java Messaging Service) directly from BizTalk Server or from their .NET-based applications. The JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server V3.0 adds support for JMS Map Messages, automatically converting received map messages to XML documents based on user provided schemas. The JNBridge JMS Adapter for .NET adds full support for Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Line-of-Business (LOB) SDK. Both adapters also have expanded licensing options, including support for virtual machines and annual licensing.

â��The new map messages interface especially is timely for our organization as it is vital in our environment to ensure we can seamlessly integrate our enterprise service bus and our existing application assets,â�� said Richard Townsend, director of information systems at Farm Bureau Financial Services. â��JNBridgeâ��s adapters filled the void our enterprise had when we were looking to access JMS directly from BizTalk Server,â�� said Townsend.

The JNBridge JMS Adapters enable enterprises to integrate any existing JMS (Java Message Service) infrastructure with BizTalk Server or with Microsoft .NET Framework-based desktop applications, server solutions and cloud deployments.

With the adapters, customers are able to quickly configure transports and integrate applications, simplifying the complexity and therefore allowing development teams to reduce risk and focus on automating other businesses processes.

â��This latest release of the adapters is another step forward in our vision of interoperability, allowing users to deploy interoperable solutions anywhere,â�� said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. â��The latest version of each adapter allows enterprises to purchase and deploy according to their business needs: from conventional perpetual machine-based licensing to annual licenses on virtual machines, or even to instances in the cloud.â��

Availability

Version 3.0 of the JMS Adapters for .NET and for BizTalk Server are available today. To download and purchase directly please visit: (www.jnbridge.com/downloads.htm). For more information on JNBridge, please visit (www.jnbridge.com).

About JNBridge

JNBridge connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with tools and adapters that are fast, simple to use and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability, both in the cloud and on the ground. JNBridge is a privately-held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 2001, JNBridge has over 450 unique customers in 40 countries that use JNBridgeâ��s award-winning solutions in a wide variety of applications in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. Please visit www.jnbridge.com for more information.

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GORILLA LOGIC’S ERIC BRUNO TO DISCUSS USE OF JAVAFX ON WALL STREET AT JAVA ONE CONFERENCE

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:26:30 +0000

Bruno to share the planned expansion of JavaFX inside national bank and how it will enhance the user experience

WHO: Eric Bruno
Gorilla Logic

Senior Software Developer
(http://www.gorillalogic.com)

Eric Bruno is a senior software developer for Gorilla Logic, Inc., a leader in enterprise application development services and creators of open source test tools for mobile and rich Internet applications. His experience ranges from client/server and highly distributed development, to multi-tiered web and transactional and real-time software development.

WHAT: "JavaFX on Wall Street" (Session 24350)

This session will describe the work Bruno has been conducting at a leading national bank in New York City. Bruno will highlight his work with teams to build and deploy JavaFX components in an existing Java Swing application which is used by companies globally. Called Locus, this application is a key financial research and analytics application with a large user base, across a large set of financial markets. He will share how he has deployed JavaFX 1.3.1 successfully, and how the project is moving to JavaFX 2.0. He will describe how he integrated JavaFX into Swing, how it's driving increased Locus usage, and the future planned expansion of JavaFX inside the global bank.

WHERE: Java One

Hotel Nikko - Nikko Ballroom I

222 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA 94102-2115

WHEN: Mon., Oct. 3, 2011

5:30 - 6:30 p.m. (Pacific Time)

CONTACT: For more information or to set up an interview with Eric Bruno, please contact:

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JNBRIDGE ENABLES GLOBAL REINSURANCE FIRM SWISS RE TO ELIMINATE REDEVELOPMENT OF CORE ANALYTICS API

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:32:54 +0000

SwissRe able to shorten development times, improve localization and gain consistent business results

BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 26, 2011- JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the award-winning provider of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET Frameworks, and Swiss Re, (www.swissre.com) one of the world's largest and most diversified reinsurers, together are now enabling actuaries all over the world to incorporate a common numerical analysis Java API in their local market Excel-based applications in order to eliminate the need for local code reinvention and duplication.

"Giving actuaries working in local markets access to key functions from their VBA/.NET environments has changed the way they develop applications," said Johannes M. Hug, Ph.D. director of information technology at Swiss Re. "Without the need to reinvent critical code, they now can focus on integrating local market conditions for even more accurate analysis."

Insurance underwriting relies on complex analysis to make critical business decisions - including reviewing financials, valuing potential losses and mitigating risk. At Swiss Re, these analyses are performed by actuaries who chart and analyze probabilistic data using a proprietary library containing hundreds of classes of numerical and business functions that capture reinsurance knowledge and perform key computations.

Prior to seeking out JNBridgePro, Swiss Re had spent considerable resources in developing the Swiss Re Actuarial Library (SAL), its proprietary Java-based API that contains rich numerical analysis functionality. SAL is readily available to actuaries working on corporate enterprise applications at the home office but it was not accessible to actuaries in local markets thus resulting in actuaries continuing to reinvent the wheel by writing their own logic, investing time and effort to create and test more limited function sets.

"A great deal of business knowledge is embedded in the API - cost models, internal overhead and profit margin calculations and critical numerical and business functionality - content local users might not think to create," said Thomas Kruppa, director of products at Swiss Re. "Yet the API cannot address every market or rapidly changing local conditions. Local markets have unique characteristics that our Java-based enterprise library does not address. That is why many of Swiss Re's actuaries develop standalone Microsoft Excel applications that are tailored to local markets."

JNBridgePro is an interoperability bridge between Java and .NET that simplifies the issue of cross-platform integration. Using JNBridgePro, SwissRe was able to:

Integrate the solution quickly with a simple deployment: JNBridgePro quickly made SAL available to users. Dr. Hug estimates it took only a few weeks to validate the proxied Java API and distribute it directly to each user's desktop.
Gain consistent, repeatable results without reinventing code. By exposing the Java API, VBA/.NET developers can take advantage of an extensively tested, common code base to ensure greater numerical accuracy and eliminate errors. Users no longer need to code functions in Visual Basic or C+ and test them to ensure they return the same answer with the same precision as those provided by SAL. The result is centralized numerical and business intelligence that can be accessed by all actuaries to deliver consistent and repeatable results.
Develop local applications faster. Access to powerful routines lets users take advantage of sophisticated functionality that is unavailable when creating code from scratch. As a result, actuaries can spend their valuable time developing market-specific logic and build localized solutions faster.

For more information on JNBridgePro or JNBridge's JMS Adapters for Java and .NET. please visit: (www.jnbridge.com).

About JNBridge

JNBridge connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with tools and adapters that are fast, simple to use and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability, both in the cloud and on the ground. JNBridge is a privately-held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 2001, JNBridge has over 450 unique customers in 40 countries that use JNBridge's award-winning solutions in a wide variety of applications in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. Please visit www.jnbridge.com for more information.

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GORILLA LOGIC NAMES JAVA EXPERT AND IT INDUSTRY THOUGHT LEADER ERIC BRUNO AS SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:06:24 +0000

Bruno to leverage 15 years of Java expertise to assist enterprise IT clients with complex and challenging software development projects

BROOMFIELD, Colo., June 23, 2011 - Gorilla Logic, (www.gorillalogic.com), a leader in enterprise application development services and creators of open source test tools for mobile and rich Internet applications, today announced it has added Eric Bruno as it senior software developer for the company. Bruno will lead Gorilla Logic's efforts related to addressing enterprise customers' ongoing software services needs and manage implementation teams to further enable developing state-of-the-art applications.

"We are extremely pleased to have Eric join our team as we pursue our mission to deliver software that exceeds clients' expectations on time, on budget and that works - first time, every time," said Stu Stern, CEO of Gorilla Logic. "Eric's contributions to the Java community are unmatched and we look forward to sharing his expertise with our enterprise client base."

Prior to joining Gorilla Logic, Bruno was a client principal at Allure Technology where he was responsible for overseeing software solution architecture and product development. Prior to his position at Allure, he was a 'Java Geek' for Oracle. In more than 20 years of software development experience, Bruno has worked as a developer on large scale systems, acted as technical advisor, chief architect, and led global teams of developers. He has been involved in all aspects of software development, from requirements gathering, to testing and Quality Assurance (QA). Bruno is especially well known as the author of several acclaimed books focused on Java development. These titles include, Java Messaging, Real-Time Java Programming and JavaFX. Bruno also is a contributing editor to Dr. Dobbs Journal and the 'Guru' for the Dr. Dobbs Online Java Blog (http://drdobbs.com/java). He has published hundreds of articles and technical publications under his name.

Gorilla Logic continues to be an industry leader in developing open-source automated testing tools for emerging development platforms. In addition to FlexMonkey, Gorilla Logic recently released FoneMonkey 5.0, bringing record-and-playback automated testing capabilities to the iPhone and iPad for the first time anywhere. Gorilla Logic's open source testing tools have grown out of the company's extensive experience providing mobile, web and rich Internet application development services to customers, from Fortune 500 companies to next-generation Internet start-ups.

For more information on Gorilla Logic's open source test tools for mobile and rich Internet applications please visit: FlexMonkey (http://www.gorillalogic.com/flexmonkey) or FoneMonkey (http://www.gorillalogic.com/fonemonkey).

About Gorilla Logic:

Gorilla Logic provides custom enterprise application development services to many of the world's leading software-driven organizations. It has a rich history of applying software engineering best practices to reduce the time and cost of delivering high-quality, full-featured applications with advanced functionality. Its technical leadership in mobile, rich Internet and enterprise applications showcases its broad platform expertise and exemplifies its commitment to software development best practices and quality. Its innovative work with emerging development platforms led to the creation of two industry leading open source tools for automated testing, FlexMonkey (Flex applications) and FoneMonkey (iPhone/iPad Apps). To download Gorilla Logic's open source tools, and to learn more about the company and its services, please visit (www.gorillalogic.com).

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JNBRIDGE DELIVERS JAVA AND MICROSOFT .NET INTEGRATION FOR THE CLOUD WITH LAUNCH OF JNBRIDGEPRO 6.0

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:55:45 +0000

JNBridgePro 6.0 addresses interoperability between major cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure

BOULDER, Colo., May 25, 2011 (Glue Conference Booth # 11) - JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the award-winning provider of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET Frameworks, announced today the release of JNBridgePro 6.0, which enables developers to access both .NET-based and Java-based cloud services and APIs from ground or cloud-based clients written in the other platform, and to develop cloud-based services and APIs that incorporate both Java and .NET-based components.

"As enterprise development teams start including cloud technologies in their applications, incompatible cloud platforms and APIs will be a huge road block," said Michael Cote, analyst at RedMonk. "We're already seeing a clamoring for tools and services that integrate this spaghetti bowl of end-points, and they're only going to become more important to realizing the benefits of cloud development."

JNBridgePro connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with simple-to-use Visual Studio and Eclipse plug-ins that remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability. JNBridgePro 6.0 extends this interoperability to the cloud, allowing developers to build and distribute integrated applications anywhere, including:

Intra-cloud, where both platforms reside in the same cloud, either in the same or in different instances
Inter-cloud, where the instances belong to different clouds
Ground-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground, where the interoperability is between a cloud instance and an application running on the ground.

"JNBridge's vision of cloud interoperability is any object or API, on any platform, in any language, anywhere," said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. "JNBridgePro 6.0 will allow enterprises to build applications that access any API, or build rich APIs that are accessible to the other side, no matter where they reside, and whether or not they are services enabled."

Along with extending all the high-performance interoperability capabilities of JNBridgePro to the cloud, JNBridge has both simplified and extended the licensing options. Now a single edition, JNBridgePro 6.0 includes all the functions of the previous standard (JNBridgePro SE) and enterprise (JNBridgePro EE) editions. JNBridgePro 6.0 now offers an annual licensing option, in addition to perpetual, and supports licensing of virtual machines and cloud instances.

Availability

JNBridgePro 6.0 will be generally available on June 6, 2011. To download and purchase directly please visit (www.jnbridge.com/downloads.htm).For more information on JNBridge, please visit (www.jnbridge.com).

About JNBridge

JNBridge connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with tools and adapters that are fast, simple to use and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability, both in the cloud and on the ground. JNBridge is a privately-held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 2001, JNBridge has over 450 unique customers in 40 countries that use JNBridge's award-winning solutions in a wide variety of applications in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. Please visit www.jnbridge.com for more information.

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JNBRIDGE CTO WAYNE CITRIN TO DISCUSS CLOUD COMPUTING INTEROPERABILITY AT GLUECON 2011

Mon, 23 May 2011 18:04:43 +0000

Citrin to present and demo how JNBridgePro 6.0 will enable developers to integrate Java with .NET code in the Cloud

Who: Wayne Citrin

CTO

JNBridge

(www.jnbridge.com)

Citrin is Chief Technology Officer at JNBridge. He is the architect of JNBridgePro and has been devoted to Java and .NET interoperability issues since .NET's beta days, more than nine years ago. Prior to co-founding JNBridge, Citrin was a leading researcher in programming languages and compilers and was on the Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a researcher at IBM's research lab in Zürich, Switzerland and has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science. He has given presentations at JavaOne, Microsoft's TechEd and TechReady, and numerous academic and technical conferences.

What: Java/.NET Interoperability in the Cloud

Cloud computing is without question here to stay. However, how do IT organizations moving applications to the cloud integrate Java and Microsoft .NET applications? At the GLUE Conference, Citrin will outline the level of support and various approaches developers can take to call Java from .NET in the cloud. Citrin will explain why he believes that what is typically discussed under the rubric of cloud interoperability is so insufficient it will destroy the promise of the cloud. For cloud computing to be successful 'Cloud Interoperability' must encompass full Cloud-to-Cloud access, whereby any cloud service can be consumed from any client or on-premise platform, and full interoperability within a cloud service. Citrin will conclude with an explanation of the approaches developers can take to make interoperability in the cloud successful. He will share use cases and tools that provide the ability to write cloud services using any platform, easily, simply and quickly, and regardless of the cloud vendor.

When: Wed., May 25, 2011

2-3 p.m. MTN

Where: GLUE Conference 2011

Omni Interlocken Spa and Resort

500 Interlocken Boulevard

Broomfield, CO 80021

Contact: For more information or to set up an interview with Wayne Citrin, please contact:

Christie Denniston

Catapult PR-IR

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(cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com)

TASKTOP ADDS DR. BRIAN BARRY TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Fri, 06 May 2011 01:00:38 +0000

TASKTOP ADDS DR. BRIAN BARRY TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Tasktop continues to build out its management and director teams with appointment of Barry, a technical leader in IDE platforms and enterprise Agile development

VANCOUVER, BC, May 5, 2011 - Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of the Eclipse Mylyn open source tools and a leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, today announced the addition of Dr. Brian Barry to its board of directors. Barry brings more than 20 years of technical and business leadership experience working with a range of highly successful technology companies, including Object Technology International (OTI), developers of the Eclipse IDE platform. Barry's experience and guidance will help Tasktop accelerate its growth and develop innovative solutions for enterprise software development and knowledge worker productivity.

"Brian's vision and leadership at OTI were instrumental to creating the Eclipse platform and ecosystem," said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. "We are honored to have Brian's experience guiding Tasktop in our mission to transform the application lifecycle and task management space into a more developer friendly and productive experience. We look forward to Brian's input as we work to build a great company and scale our business to meet growing demand for Tasktop innovation."

Dr. Barry is currently Chief Technology Officer of XIA Systems, and CEO of Bedarra Research Labs. From 1991 to 2002 he served as Chief Scientist, CEO, president and CTO at Object Technology International (OTI), Inc. Under his leadership OTI developed the Eclipse IDE Platform, IBM VisualAge for Java and IBM VisualAge MicroEdition for embedded systems. Dr. Barry has more than 20 years of experience in the design and implementation of object-oriented and component-based systems, including distributed, client/server, embedded and real-time applications. He was a charter member of the ANSI Smalltalk committee and a co-author of the Smalltalk standard. He holds a Ph.D. from Queen's University.

Tasktop created its task management tools to help developers be more productive by making it effortless for them to organize their work around tasks. Serving as an ALM interoperability suite, Tasktop Enterprise has become the standard for integrating disparate development tools and platforms that are the reality for today's enterprise software development organizations. By providing traceability and knowledge sharing between tools and platforms that are often provided by separate companies, Tasktop helps reduce the complexity and challenges of successfully scaling Agile programs beyond small teams. Organizations using Tasktop are able to integrate and gain added value from heterogeneous systems, improve the happiness and productivity of development teams, and integrate and manage emerging technology platforms, such as cloud computing and mobile applications, into existing development practices.

About Tasktop Technologies

Tasktop Technologies is the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration framework and its revolutionary task-focused interface technology. The task-focused interface is proven to make developers more productive by showing only the relevant information for each task, dramatically reducing search time and facilitating multitasking. Tasktop Enterprise is the company's commercial product based on Mylyn, with task-focused support for web browsing, time tracking, documents, email, calendars and commercial ALM components. Tasktop also provides consulting, connector development services and training to the growing number of companies adopting the task-focused paradigm and tools. For more information, please visit (www.tasktop.com).

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INTEROPERABILITY EXPERT SAYS WINDOWS AZURE STARTER KIT FOR JAVA DOESN’T ADDRESS THE ‘REAL WORLD PROBLEMS’ OF CLOUD DEVELOPERS

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:51:08 +0000

INTEROPERABILITY EXPERT SAYS WINDOWS AZURE STARTER KIT FOR JAVA DOESN'T ADDRESS THE 'REAL WORLD PROBLEMS' OF CLOUD DEVELOPERS

JNBridge's Wayne Citrin outlines a more practical approach for integrating Java with .NET code in the Cloud

Who:  Wayne Citrin
          CTO
          JNBridge
          (www.jnbridge.com)

Citrin is Chief Technology Officer at JNBridge. He is the architect of JNBridge Pro and has been devoted to Java and .NET interoperability issues since .NET's beta days, more than nine years ago. Prior to co-founding JNBridge, Citrin was a leading researcher in programming languages and compilers and was on the Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a researcher at IBM's research lab in Zürich, Switzerland and has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science. He has given presentations at JavaOne, Microsoft's TechEd and TechReady, and numerous academic and technical conferences.

What: Java and the Azure Cloud
Microsoft has been promoting the use of Java in the Azure cloud, with the recent launch of "Windows Azure Starter Kit for Java." (http://preview.tinyurl.com/4hz2rp7). The intent of the new offering is to provide developers with tools for packaging and uploading Java-based web applications running on Tomcat or Jetty. However, the use cases for this offering are not realistic and, in some instances, "just don't work." The problem is that these examples are extremely constrained. While it may be possible to construct Java EE examples that work as demos, it is unlikely that any real Java EE apps, web-enabled or otherwise, can be migrated to the Azure cloud without drastic, impractical or even impossible, modifications to the underlying application servers in order to accommodate the networking issues.

Beyond technical issues in getting an app server to run on the Azure platform, developers need to ask why they would want to do this on a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), such as Azure, when it would be far simpler to run such an application on an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering such as Amazon EC2. It is one thing to say it can be done; it's another to actually want to do it, as opposed to the easier alternatives. The market seems to bear this out - a recent Forrester study shows that Eclipse (that is, Java) developers prefer Amazon EC2 or Google App Engine, while Visual Studio developers prefer Windows Azure.

Users will want to do things with Java on Azure, but not what the creators of the Azure Starter Kit for Java think they want to do. Rather than running a self-contained Java server in an Azure role, they will want to integrate their Java with the .NET code more directly supported by Azure.

How: The industry needs interoperability solutions for IT organizations that need to integrate Java and Microsoft .NET applications running in the Cloud - especially as a high-performance alternative to existing web services protocols. Citrin outlines the level of support and approaches developers can take to call Java from .NET in the cloud.

To read Wayne Citrin's full blog post on this topic please visit: (http://www.jnbridge.com/jn/blog/2011/04/26/java-in-the-azure-cloud/)

Contact: For more information or to set up an interview with Wayne Citrin, please contact:
             Christie Denniston
             Catapult PR-IR
             303-581-7760, ext. 13
             (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com)

ESSENTIAL ISSUES, SUCH AS LICENSING AND BILLING, IN THE CLOUD WILL MAKE OR BREAK ISV SUCCESS

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:53:24 +0000

ESSENTIAL ISSUES, SUCH AS LICENSING AND BILLING, IN THE CLOUD WILL MAKE OR BREAK ISV SUCCESS

The new frontier of the Cloud hasn't been designed to accommodate software vendors who want their products to work in the cloud, says JNBridge's Wayne Citrin

WHO:  Wayne Citrin
          CTO
          JNBridge
          (www.jnbridge.com)

Citrin is Chief Technology Officer at JNBridge. He is the architect of JNBridge Pro, and has been devoted to Java and .NET interoperability issues since .NET's beta days, more than nine years ago. Prior to co-founding JNBridge, Citrin was a leading researcher in programming languages and compilers, and was on the Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a researcher at IBM's research lab in Zürich, Switzerland and has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science. He has given presentations at JavaOne, Microsoft's TechEd and TechReady, and numerous academic and technical conferences.

WHAT: ISVs and the Cloud

If you ask most people how software vendors can move into the cloud, they will say that the vendor should take their traditional products, put them in the cloud, and offer them as services. But what about other software vendors who create components that other developers incorporate into their own programs? In most cases, offering the component as a service doesn't make sense.

The main challenge to running components in Cloud-based programs has to do with essential issues, like licensing and billing. Windows Azure has absolutely no provision for third-party licensing and billing. It's a chicken-and-egg problem. If Microsoft is serious about its software partners producing for Azure (and not just end-user customers creating custom applications), Microsoft will have to jump-start the market by offering their own billing mechanism.
One would think that barriers to entry wouldn't be there, and that Cloud providers would do all they could to encourage software vendors to help settle this new frontier. Without a robust partner community for both Azure and Amazon Web Services, Cloud adoption will be that much slower for everyone.

HOW: The industry needs interoperability solutions for IT organizations that need to integrate Java and Microsoft .NET applications running in the Cloud - especially as a high-performance alternative to existing Web services protocols. The vision of Cloud interoperability should be any object, on any platform, in any language, anywhere, and at any time. Solutions such as this are needed because existing web services protocols are too slow for IT organizations trying to meet demanding service level agreements frequently associated with Cloud computing, Citrin says.

To read Wayne Citrin's full blog post on this topic please visit: (http://www.jnbridge.com/jn/?p=277).