Aternity app monitor now covers Web 2.0 apps

"This is software that sits on a desktop that monitors the activities of the application," said Trevor Matz, Aternity president and CEO. "It can monitor any application without any knowledge of that application. It uses a unparalleled technology that can see the underlying events in the innovation stack."

"Rich Internet Applications are a new animal, because there is a lot of client-side processing," Matz said. During Ajax is currently supported, the company does not provide support but for Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight-based Web applications, even though support for these technologies may come in future editions of the product, he said.

Matz said that many of the company's clients have moved to 64-bit Java applications. "The reason many large financial companies have moved to Windows 7 is that they want to have support on the desktop for extended memory addressing, and as a result, they are taking advantage of the new platform to port their applications to 64-bit Java," Matz said.

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