Reuters Holding Plc’s Teknekron Software Systems Inc has the first in a series of Teknekron Information Bus transaction service modules for its Enterprise Toolkit transaction processing messaging middleware and development environment. Transaction Express is a set of Teknekron Information Bus communications extensions optimised for transaction data claimed to handle 100 messages per second. A Transaction Express Node sits between the publisher and subscriber, collecting messages and guaranteeing delivery even if the client is busy. The module comes with a console for configuring the Node network and messages. XA and CICS support are planned. Prices range from $25,000 to $50,000 per node depending on the configuration under Sun Microsystems Inc, Hewlett-Packa rd Co and IBM Corp Unixes, Windows NT and Windows.