Judging from a recent flurry of news surrounding the company, Intel’s all about XML these days. For starters, rather than just talk it up or tinker with a single new tool, the Santa Clara-based organization updated its XML Software Suite.
This brings the processing libraries to version 1.1, and more than a few benefits can be expected as a result. David Worthington explains that Intel is “seeking to offset bottlenecks in enterprise workloads and providing a benchmark utility that the company says will establish a baseline to compare the performance of XML solutions.”
Also, “Intel focused on delivering better XML parsing and schema validation, as well as making XML Software Suite easier to integrate with Java development software and middleware.” And the Suite should get along especially well with Intel’s Nehalem architecture, ensuring that it will remain useful for at least a brief period into the future.
The second part of Intel’s apparent focus on XML acts as a further endorsement of XML Software Suite and brings MuleSource, the SOA software specialist, into the mix. MuleSource and Intel have worked together to create Mule Xpack for Intel XML Software Suite, which provides off-the-shelf integration and additional processing improvements. What’s more, Mule Xpack can be downloaded for free.
Intel’s XML Software Suite can be had off the bat for a similar price, but after a 30-day trial, users will have to either give it up or fork over $199.
Regardless, it’s been a little while since we’ve seen such a big company doing so much with XML, so these developments come as a nice surprise. A pun Intel’s PR department cooked up even seems appropriate: the XML community could view them as the “suite XML of success.”
