By William Fellows
Fujitsu Ltd’s US-based Software Corp will be making some noise about its Interstage middleware suite at next week’s JavaOne fest in San Francisco. Fujitsu has been selling Interstage for some years in Japan and recently indicated it would begin marketing the suite internationally.
Interstage includes OLTP, Enterprise Java Beans, a Corba request broker, wrapper for legacy protocols, a distributed object server which can be linked with a web browser via InfoObjects web and Corba APIs, and an interface to the Jasmine object database which Computer Associates now markets. Fujitsu will begin selling version 2.0 of the suite with development tools next month and show some new agent technology at CA World in New Orleans. It is looking for OEM deals.
It says getting the software localized has been the main hold-up bringing the software to the US. It counts the traditional ORB companies as its immediate competition but expects to add services which will bring it into more full-service middleware shops including BEA Systems Inc. A server and client SDK and runtime is $6,500 – server licenses are from $15,000.
