Hitachi’s Ltd’s software group is going to put some significant muscle behind creating an OLTP software business around TPBroker monitor next year. It recently landed Top End guru Jack Bissell who moved from NCR Corp to BEA Systems Inc and arrived as Hitachi software’s chief scientist a couple of months ago. Hitachi claims several large customer wins for TPBroker including Bank of America. Hitachi claims its OLTP monitor is native Corba from the ground up, whereas BEA Systems’ wraps Corba around Tuxedo. BEA’s new M3 software also requires a Tuxedo license. IBM’s CICS/Encina software requires large amounts of expensive services, Hitachi claims. It plans to add other infrastructure and vertical industry application techniques to TPBroker as fast as it can. It has a financial services front-end developer toolset from New York-based Transaction Information Systems. It will combine the Java-enabled TPBroker 3.1 with TIS’ Human Active Integrator channel-based middleware for creating personal services including customer access to online orders and real-time transactions. Its Boston development group is adding the e-commerce TradeLink technology and it has a workflow component on the runway. It has just signed with Commercesoft Systems Corp, the recently formed TP distributor formed by BEA/Entersoft refugees (see separate story), which will begin selling TPBroker as soon as it gets up and running.