It was sold to Novell, where it fit in about as well as WordPerfect did. Ultimately, it was sold to BEA and was the company's first offering. These shops will find in the new Tuxedo a variety of features that keep pace with emerging commerce standards. XML's success as a data-interchange standard will play a significant role in enterprise computing. Hence, Tuxedo's support.
Tuxedo also adds public-key encryption, so that encrypted transactions can be handled seamlessly.
Many new features expand Tuxedo's multithreaded capabilities. As computation across numerous processors increases on servers, the ability to make best use of the threads of execution becomes critical in high-transaction environments. Tuxedo now has much greater capabilities in this area. A final benefit is an enhanced development model for Tuxedo. The tuxedo still fits.