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TIBCO Expands Event-Driven SOA
Capabilities with New Ajax Messaging Service
Scalable Ajax Server Delivers Real-time Data to
Web Pages and Application Clients
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 8, 2007 – TIBCO
Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced the planned
release of enterprise messaging software – TIBCO Ajax
Message Service™ Version 1.0 – that pushes live data and
events from servers to Web pages, Ajax applications, and
other software.
TIBCO has a long history in facilitating real-time
information flow with its enterprise message software by
publishing events and messages across a network without
the subscribing applications needing to request or
"poll" for data. Given the exponential growth of Ajax
RIAs, TIBCO sought to incorporate Ajax into its
messaging capabilities to support HTTP and provide the
opportunity for organizations to offer rich, interactive
services and information such as real-time
notifications, dashboards, or financial services
portfolio management and derivatives data via Web-based
infrastructure.
"TIBCO Ajax Message Service is a natural extension of
TIBCO's legacy in enterprise message bus technology,"
said Kathleen Quirk, program manager for IDC's
enterprise workplace applications and portal strategies
research. "Combining real-time data delivery with a rich
client on the front-end provides an enhanced level of
usability for business users, and gives developers an
enterprise-tested set of technologies to build
applications that are more in tune with business
information requirements."
TIBCO Ajax Message Service enables data and events to
stream to the client over the firewall-friendly HTTP
networks that make up corporate intranets and the Web.
Further, in keeping with enterprises' preferences to
deliver applications to the ubiquitous Web browser,
TIBCO Ajax Message Service requires no plug-ins,
applets, Active-X controls or software installations to
connect. Product functionality highlights include
support for multiple concurrent users; performance
monitoring; multiplexing to combine message streams over
a single HTTP connection; throttling to detect available
bandwidth and adjust data flows accordingly; and the
filtering of data streams.
"The ability to push data to the browser has been around
for a while, however the real differentiation as it
relates to enterprise use is with scalability and
reliability of such solutions," said Kevin Hakman,
director, TIBCO. "TIBCO Ajax Message Service is a
specialized server for this purpose. With features such
as message multiplexing, filtering, automatic bandwidth
detection and data throttling TIBCO Ajax Message Service
simplifies the inherent difficulties of scaling such
capabilities and makes them turn-key for our customers.
Accordingly, TIBCO expects TIBCO Ajax Message Service
will deliver tremendous value across the enterprise by
further extending event-driven SOA."
In addition, TIBCO also announced an OEM license
agreement with Lightstreamer for its high-performance
push/streaming engine. Leveraging the Lightstreamer
engine as its core, TIBCO Ajax Message Service
represents one of the industry's first enterprise
software Ajax solution for streaming enterprise data,
such as stock quotes, to end user rich internet
applications (RIAs). TIBCO Ajax Message Service Version
1.0 will be generally available by the end of May 2007
and can be used with or without TIBCO's award winning
Ajax graphical user interface toolkit: TIBCO General
Interface™. To learn more about TIBCO's comprehensive
Ajax, SOA and Messaging offerings, please visit
www.tibco.com.
About Lightstreamer
Lightstreamer, a legal entity Weswit Srl, is part of
Par-Tec Spa. Development began in 2000, originally by
the Financial Systems Integration activity within the
group, then in 2004 Lightstreamer became an independent
'ISV' to provide Lightstreamer 'push' technology to a
wider global market. For more information see
www.lightstreamer.com where several on-line
demonstrations are available.
About TIBCO
TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ:TIBX) provides enterprise
software that helps companies achieve service-oriented
architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM)
success. With over 3,000 customers, TIBCO has given
leading organizations around the world better awareness
and agility—what TIBCO calls The Power of Now®. To learn
more, contact TIBCO at +1 650-846-1000 or on the Web at
www.tibco.com. |