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BEA exec makes some JavaOne predictions

BEA Workshop Business Unit veep Bill Roth takes a long walk down JavaOne memory lane (describing every year of the event since 1996). Feigning to pull no punches BEA is a sponsor of JavaOne, Roth tries to capture the essence of each year's event with catchy headlines like Mobile...

Tags: Java, JavaOne, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-04-28

BEA retrenching with new app server and 'blended' business model

By the time marriage of the word "Java" to the phrase "application server" became in-vogue -- giving rise to the acronym J2EE now being deprecated in favor of Java EE or Java Enterprise Edition -- BEA was practically a household name in enterprise IT, having seized the early lead in...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc.

Blog posts 2005-08-08

BEA reinvents itself as the 'Switzerland' of SOA

For many years, the phrase "Java application server" was synonymous with BEA’s Weblogic Java 2 Enteprise Edition-based offering. The company established a significant first-mover advantage in the J2EE space and BEA was one of the darlings of Wall Street. But the competition stiffened and now, although research...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc.

Blog posts 2005-06-09

Why SOA is for real

Bill Roth explains how service-oriented infrastructures emerged and how they are being used in the real world today through messaging, data and security services.

Tags: SOA, Web Services, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Bill Roth, Security, Enterprise Software, Software

Whiteboards 2005-06-03

Additional Resources

SEC charges four more ex-Nortel officers in fraud

SEC charges four more ex-Nortel officers in fraudofficer and director bars, FIN 48ODB, good one. A little known accounting change called FIN 48, requires that listed companies report the amount of money set aside for questionable tax positions. The problem here is out of country investors who put pressure on...

Tags: Taxes, Litigation, Free trade, Financial accounting, Outsourcing, Chief Operations Officer, Nortel Networks Corp., ex-Nortel officer, ex-Nortel, John Roth, SEC

Discussion threads 2007-09-12

YouTube presents awards to its first stars

YouTube presents awards to its first starsYawn...Just proves that some people will watch anything for entertainment.IdoacracyThen you need to see the movie Idiocracy. It relates well to what you are saying.Are you not confident with your video production skills?While much of what is on YouTube is crap, do you...

Tags: Corporate communications, Advertising & Promotion, YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-03-27

Java EE 'not dead yet'

Last week, I reported on the Burton Group's surprise pronouncement that Java EE was a dead platform walking. Bill Roth, vice president at BEA, had this to say about that: "J2EE is like the Mark Twain of enterprise software. Reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated." In...

Tags: Java, Java EE

Blog posts 2006-07-18

Why have large software providers embraced Eclipse?

Read the full text transcript of the podcast. Eclipse is being used by two-thirds of Java shops today, and has taken the market for IDEs by storm over the last two years. Part of that adoption growth has been due to large ISVs dropping their own IDEs in favor...

Tags: Eclipse

Blog posts 2006-06-26

BPEL battle

Tod Nielsen, a former BEA Systems marketing exec who defected to Oracle, is now bad-mouthing his old employer. Well, sort of. Actually, he's just suggesting that BEA's BPEL Business Process Execution Language capabilities are not up to snuff. BPEL, the specification for orchestration of processes in SOAs, is considered one...

Tags: BPEL

Blog posts 2005-09-22

Predictions for JavaOne, anyone?

I just got done reading Sun president and COO Jonathan Schwartz's most recent blog entry, most of which describes the business model that put Red Hat on the map with Linux -- but that does so in the context of Sun's recently released OpenSolaris and how, by crossing the digital...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, JavaOne

Blog posts 2005-06-17

BEA's Aqualogic move. Bold enough? Or is there more?

Almost one week has passed since BEA revealed its intentions to become the Switzerland of Services Oriented Architectures SOAs. And, as with the Apple/Intel announcement, it usually takes about that long for news to sink in and for the dots between several takes on such deals to be connected....

Tags: BEA Systems Inc.

Blog posts 2005-06-14

BEA floats along with all SOA boats

BEA just spent millions of dollars to develop and market a concept and a brand that will remake the company’s image. The concept, Think Liquid, and the brand, AquaLogic, “unifies what we do for a living…to bring customers simplicity and fluidity in enterprise computing,” said company co-founder and CEO Alfred...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc.

Blog posts 2005-06-09

Why SOA is for real

Bill Roth explains how service-oriented infrastructures emerged and how they are being used in the real world today through messaging, data and security services.

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), SOA

Whiteboards 2005-06-03

Google introduces personalized home pages

Google introduces personalized home pagesGoogle introduces personalized home pagesWay to go Google! Your only a couple of years late. Thank you for this "innovation" which Yahoo and a dozen others had for years. Its your distinguished honor of playing catch up in every product you produce. ...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Digital photography, E-mail providers, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-05-19

SOA users endangered by vendor marketing hype

SOA users endangered by vendor marketing hypeDefinitions of SOA > Number of SOA "gurus"because some of the SOA gurus may give you a different definition at different times dependent on which story they think might persuade you to buy something from them.Big contrast with the hugely successful relational model where...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA

Discussion threads 2005-05-06

C-change ahead for SOA?

C-change ahead for SOA?What is SOA?What is SOA? It would help the reader understand what you're writing about if you define your acronyms and not assume that we are all up on the myriad, sometimes pointless, technology abbreviations.Service-Oriented ArchitectureRicky, SOA stands for Service-Oriented Architecture. For more information, you...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA

Discussion threads 2005-05-05

C-change ahead for SOA?

Many in this business talk about the wide disconnect between business and IT, but when it comes to SOA, it seems, they are of one mind. A new study released by BEA Systems finds that SOA is apparently as much on the radar screens of C-level executives as it is...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2005-05-04