Background information on TP vendors and products
The following links are provided as a convenient resource for Open Group members. Naturally, the presence or absence of any product or company does not imply any endorsement or criticism. Additional details on some products and their conformance to Open Group product standards can be found in the Open Software Registry.
TP Monitors
Product Vendor URL ACMS v4.2 Compaq http://www.digital.com/info/SP2550/ Tuxedo BEA Systems http://www.beasys.com/ CICS IBM http://www.software.ibm.com/ts/cics/ Encina Transarc http://www.transarc.com/afs/transarc.com/public/www/Public/ProdServ/Product/Encina/index.html TopEnd NCR http://www.topend.ncr.com/product/papers/index.htm Transaction Server Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/transaction/default.asp Clearpath 2200 Unisys http://www.marketplace.unisys.com/2200series/servers/cosec7.html
Object Oriented TP systems
OrbTP Bull http://www-frec.bull.fr/ospbuhp.htm Orbix OTM Iona http://www.iona.com/Developers/whitepaper/otm/otm_wp.html TPBroker Hitachi Inprise
http://www.hitachisoftware.com/tpbroker/default.htm Message queuing systems
MQseries IBM http://www.software.ibm.com/mqseries/ Message Queue Server (MSMQ) Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/guide/msmq_rev_spectra.asp
Industry Consortia
Business Quality Messaging (BQM) Facilitates the development of reliable, interoperable, off-the-shelf business applications. The BQM SIG serves as a neutral forum for vendors and end-users to address issues related to the deployment of transactional messaging within volume applications. http://www.bqm.org/ Message Oriented Middleware Association Promoting the use of messaging to provide multi-platform, multi-tier message passing and message queuing services for distributed computing architectures. http://www.moma-inc.org/ Work-flow Management Coalition (WfMC) . The Coalition's mission is to promote the use of workflow through the establishment of standards for software terminology, interoperability and connectivity between workflow products. http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/wfmc/
