The project, which calls for JTV to replace homegrown supply chain software with Web services by September, is in the requirements-gathering phase, said Chris Meystrik, vice president of software engineering at the company.

"We will have no more [enterprise] applications in our company, period," he said.

The company has been evaluating Borland tools for the project, but no purchase decision has been made, he said.

Adina Kram, a release coordinator at Los Angeles-based Thomson Elite, uses Borland's StarTeam change and configuration management tool and hopes the company's new focus will lead to more tools to help manage Thomson's processes.

"Process improvement breeds more process improvement, and the more a tool can do to facilitate that, the better off the development organization is," she said.