20 year history

Arjuna launches Agility 1.0

February 2010

Agility

Arjuna Technologies launches the first version of Agility, a framework product for the federation of service agreements across the cloud.

Arjuna releases new technology demonstrator

April 2008

Arjuna releases new technology demonstrator

Arjuna investigates the agile IT domain

January 2006

Arjuna begins investigating the agile IT domain in order to create more flexible software solutions for the enterprise.

Arjuna's Transaction Service Suite becomes Open Source

December 2005

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Arjuna's Transaction Service Suite becomes Open Source with sale to JBoss. Arjuna focuses on growing the services side of the business by providing training and consultancy around this technology. original press release...

Arjuna co-authors Web Services Transactions Specifications

August 2005

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Arjuna co-authors Web Services Transactions Specifications with IBM and Microsoft. WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-BusinessActivity specifications are released and Arjuna works to consolidate with the WS-CAF approach.

Arjuna co-authors WS-MessageDelivery Specification

May 2004

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Arjuna co-authors WS-MessageDelivery Specification alongside Enigmatec Corporation Ltd., Hitachi, IONA Technologies, Inc., Nokia Corporation, Oracle, SeeBeyond, Sonic Software, and Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Arjuna creates new strategic alliances

April 2004

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Arjuna creates strategic alliances with Pramati, Systinet and FirstSQL.

Arjuna Drives Convergence on Web Services Specifications

July 2003

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Arjuna Drives Convergence on Web Services Specifications by announcing publication of the Web Services - Composite Application Framework (WS-CAF) with Fujitsu Software, IONA Technologies PLC, Oracle Corp and Sun Microsystems.

Arjuna releases EA version of the Arjuna XML Transaction Service

July 2003

Arjuna releases EA version of the Arjuna XML Transaction Service (XTS) providing coordination infrastructure to support business transactions that span multiple Web services.

Arjuna Technologies Limited formed

July 2002

Arjuna Technologies Limited formed. Following HP's announcement of their discontinuation of the middleware product line, the Arjuna team form a new company, Arjuna Technologies Limited, focused on building reliable Web Services architecture components. Arjuna continues to sell the former HP transactioning and messaging products, offering support and enhancements, through a licensing deal with HP. Arjuna are also contracted to assist HP in providing 'sunset' support for HP's NetAction Middleware products for HP's customers.

HP acquires Compaq

May 2002

Hewlett Packard completes merger with Compaq

HP Arjuna Lab releases HP Web Services Transactions (HP-WST)

March 2002

HP Arjuna Lab releases HP Web Services Transactions (HP-WST). HP-WST is the industry's first transactioning product designed for the complex world of Web services. HP-WST provides the transactional infrastructure needed to support complex, long duration transactions outside the firewall between multiple parties.

HP Arjuna Lab releases HP Message Service (HP-MS)

February 2002

HP Arjuna Lab releases HP Message Service (HP-MS). HP-MS is an advanced, pure Java, message server that complies to version 1.0.2b of the Java Message Service specification. It provides both transactional queuing and publish-and-subscribe messaging models. At its core HP-MS leverages the ArjunaCore transaction processing engine to ensure guaranteed message delivery.

Bluestone Software acquired by Hewlett Packard

January 2001

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Bluestone Software acquired by Hewlett Packard. Hewlett Packard complete the acquisition of Bluestone Software Inc for $525M. As a result, the HP Arjuna Lab is formed in Newcastle, with a satellite office in London, employing around 30 people in total.

Arjuna wins British Computer Society Gold Award

November 2000

Arjuna's Steve Caughey and Santosh Shrivastava with BCS President Alastair Macdonald and broadcaster Kate Bellingham

Arjuna wins British Computer Society Gold Award for Information Technology. The Bluestone Arjuna Lab is awarded the prestigious British Computer Society (BCS) Gold Award for information technology which "aims to encourage originality, innovation, and the highest standard of excellence in the British computer industry".

Arjuna Solutions acquired by Bluestone Software.

July 2000

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Arjuna Solutions acquired by Bluestone Software. Bluestone acquire Arjuna for $13.25M resulting in the creation of the Bluestone Arjuna Lab in Newcastle with a satellite office in London. Bluestone say, "Through our acquisition of Arjuna Solutions Ltd., we became a leader in the new world of distributed Internet transactioning".

Arjuna Solutions Limited formed

December 1998

Arjuna Solutions' founders: Santosh Shrivastava, Stuart Wheater, Steve Caughey, Mark Little, and David Ingham (L-R)

Arjuna Solutions Limited formed. In response to requests from industrial sponsors, the Arjuna team form Arjuna Solutions Limited, an independent company set up to commercialise, support and extend the OTS, JTS, and workflow technology developed by the group.

Arjuna makes submission for CORBA workflow

March 1998

Arjuna makes submission for CORBA workflow in collaboration with Nortel, Arjuna make submission to Object Management Group (OMG) WorkflowManagement Facility.

Arjuna releases JTS

May 1997

Arjuna releases world's first implementation of Java Transaction Service

Arjuna releases CORBA OTS

January 1997

Arjuna releases world's first implementation of CORBA Object Transaction Service

Arjuna used to support mission critical university administration system.

October 1994

Arjuna first used to support mission critical university administration system. Arjuna transaction technology deployed by Newcastle University to support their mission-critical student registration system. Full details available in this technical paper.

Arjuna releases first offering

1990

Arjuna distributed transactional object system released.

Arjuna formed

1985

Arjuna distributed systems group formed at Newcastle University

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