Sun boosts payment technology

Sun Microsystems has announced the releases of its new Open Payment Suite (OPS) based on the Java Composite Application Platform (CAPs) suite and Solaris operating system.

IT News Online says the new OPS builds on Sun`s Consolidated Payments Architecture (CPA) and represents the second phase of Sun`s payment strategy, which sees the introduction of a range of technologies aimed at challenges facing the payments industry.

Sun claims the new platform is able to process 12 000 payments per second. At that speed, processing Europe`s entire average daily automated payments volume would take just four hours.

Salesforce.com is to announce a new Java-like programming language today along with back-end services for building on-demand business applications, reports ZDNet.

The report says the Apex programming language, in conjunction with back-end database and workflow services, is intended as a business-computing platform that is aimed directly at software and services from Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and other companies.

Salesforce.com says Apex will be the catalyst for bringing on-demand to every enterprise application. According to the report, the move greatly expands the company`s reach into businesses as it attempts to become an all-purpose computing infrastructure provider.

Web 2.0 pioneer Nexaweb has debuted its Universal Client Framework (UCF), which is designed to allow developers to use Ajax technology to deploy composite business applications, including legacy code, via the Web, says Application Development Trends.

Nexaweb CEO Coach Wei says more attention needs to be paid to what Web 2.0 means for the enterprise because the true impact of Web 2.0 is more than the consumer Web site. Wei say Web 2.0 is really about a better way to build, deploy, and manage the business applications across an enterprise.

Nexaweb defines enterprise Web 2.0 as technology that embraces the convergence of Web 2.0 technologies, such as Ajax with legacy systems, Web services, and service-oriented architectures (SOA), to enable organisations to deploy robust, reliable, and secure business applications over the Web.