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Happy 2012!
Monday, January 2nd, 2012Cloud: the dawn of the SOA era
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011The recent announcement of Apple’s cloud illustrates yet again that a new era is about to start: that of the cloud - and with that, the massive adoption of service oriented architectures (SOA).
This will have an impact so huge that it is hard to underestimate. Some of the obvious changes that will happen are most likely the following:
- Infrastructure (operations) will become agile - at the expense of IT jobs in operations. Applications will be deployed with unprecedented ease and speed. This is because the cloud infrastructure will transparently allocate the resources that now are allocated by human administrators.
- SOA will become mainstream. This is because even the most common infrastructure services will be virtualized, running in the same or a different VM from the application, and scaling up and down as needed.
The interesting part - at least to us - is that transactions will become more distributed than ever. We are ready for this change - are you?
Atomikos named “Cool Vendor” by Gartner
Sunday, May 15th, 2011Atomikos has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the Cool Vendors in Application and Integration Platforms, 2011 report by Gartner, Inc. “We are greatly honored to be included in the Cool Vendor report by Gartner. We believe it is further validation that our “J2EE without the application server” message is resonating and gaining traction. As market adoption of lightweight Java containers increases, interest in solutions such as Atomikos ExtremeTransactions rises in parallel. We are seeing increasing market interest in our technology and in our app server free approach – particularly within transaction-centric industries such as financial services, telecommunications and transportation sectors,” says Guy Pardon, CTO, Atomikos.
Meet us at Devoxx!
Friday, November 12th, 2010It’s time for Devoxx again, and we’re going too (although we don’t do booths any more). Guy Pardon will be around on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning so if you want to meet there, feel free to say hi 
Nice video on Transactions at JavaOne
Friday, November 12th, 2010In this talk at JavaOne this year, Mark Little does a nice job explaining about transactions and why they are useful. He did a nice job - even if it is on behalf of our competitors;-)
Releases 3.7.0M2 are out!
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010Big news: our new 3.7.0M2 releases are out for ExtremeTransactions and TransactionsEssentials!
If you look at the release notes then you will see that there are not that many new features (besides bug fixes and some important performance tuning). So what makes these new releases big news then? It’s our new release process and build infrastructure that made them possible.
That’s right: we have a new build process. We are now officially using maven and mercurial for our builds, instead of ant and svn. Also, we have tuned our repository architecture to better match our business model: we are now tuned towards more frequent releases of ExtremeTransactions and optimized even more for our support business.
So we hope you enjoy the new releases as much as we do! Beware though: they are milestone builds, meaning they are bound to have minor issues still. This is mostly due to initial imperfections in our new build process. After all, it _is_ a new way of working for all of us!
Over 10 000 downloads last month
Monday, February 1st, 2010Great news: we now have over 10K downloads per month (as per January 2010), which is quite impressive given our niche market focus. This is over 10 times more than 6 months ago… Atomikos keeps on growing!
Fabric3 (SCA) Integration of Atomikos TransactionsEssentials
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Those of you who have been watching our RoadMap know that SCA is one of the topics on our list of things to watch.
Well, it turns out that the team of Fabric3 has been integrating TransactionsEssentials into the Fabric3 SCA runtime. Nice work!
Meet us at Devoxx!
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009It’s Devoxx (formerly JavaPolis) time again… If you are around this year then make sure to look for familiar faces - we will be there mixing in with the crowd.
See you!
New Model for Developer Support: “Developer Access”
Thursday, November 5th, 2009We are currently re-organising our developer support model in the following ways:
- Developer support tickets are no longer offered in isolation but rather in packets of 4
- This formula has been renamed to developer access
There are a number of reasons for doing this, but the most important one is that we want to avoid cumbersome discussions about whether a support question is actually one, two or more tickets: every time this has happened in the past, our customers were unhappy because they needed to go back to their management and ask for a budget one more time. Our new formula represents a compromise that should cover most scenarios with just one purchase.
The new formula should be online soon.