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- Enterprise Service Busted?
- Enterprise Service Busted?ESBsIt really depends on your environment. My company is a medium sized company and we did not have any middleware. For us the ESB made a lot of sense. If you already have middleware, you may not need an ESB. You might be set...
- Tags: Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Enterprise Service Busted?
- ESBs: an inconvenient truth? by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: Jim Webber, John Michelsen, Enterprise Service Bus, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Progress to buy IONA in another SOA infrastructure vendor mashup
- Progress to buy IONA in another SOA infrastructure vendor mashupProgress Know SOA/ESBYou have to remember that Progress where one of the early ESB companys via there Sonic SOftware division (some would suggest they coined the term ESB: http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=CaseStudyMule) and have many different products that play into the SOA Market! Good...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, SOA infrastructure vendor mashup, Molly, Iona Technologies, Enterprise Service Bus
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Progress to buy IONA in another SOA infrastructure vendor mashup
- Progress can assist its applications clients move to the more modern computing paradigms while IONA can help on the back-end for integration and high performance transactions while broadening Progress's share of wallet in more enterprises and verticals. And now, viola, Progress is an open source company. The best part of...
- Tags: Progress Software Corp., Iona Technologies, SOA, Mashup, Enterprise Service Bus, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Looking at SOA through ESB-colored glasses
- Looking at SOA through ESB-colored glassesNot an "SOA project" at all?"...in this company’s case, an ESB-centric viewpoint complicated what could have been a fairly simple integration project."Connecting services isn't normally viewed as an "integration project." So the use of this term casts doubt upon whether or not this was an...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- News to know: Google Apps; Vista UAC; Microsoft Echoes; Comcast; Dell
- Notable headlines: Garett Rogers: Google App Engine pricing a disappointment Ed Bott: Dear Microsoft: Please get UAC right this time Sunbelt Blog: Microsoft: What we got here is a failure to communicate Larry Dignan: Dell delivers: Is a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Facebook, Dell Computer Corp., Comcast Corp., Vista UAC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Service Bus, Telecom & Utilities, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Looking at SOA through ESB-colored glasses
- In his latest analysis published in Application Development Trends, Steve Swoyer discusses a challenge that's often overlooked in SOA discussions: the way members of different parts of the organization view the world. Everyone may be aboard the SOA concept, Steve says, but have different ideas and support different technology approaches...
- Tags: SOA, Steve Swoyer, Enterprise Service Bus, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- What's stopping vendors from offering SOA from the cloud?
- There's been plenty of excitement -- and capital investment -- in on-demand or cloud computing applications over the past year or so. (Even though there may be some peril, as discussed in my last post.) But is the SOA market itself practicing the on-demand approach? Time for...
- Tags: On-demand, SOA, SaaS/cloud Computing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- ESBStats - Statistical Analysis Software (zip)
- Statistical Analysis and Inference Software for Windows covering everything from Average, Mode and Variance through to Hypothesis Analysis, Time Series and Linear Regression. Includes Online Help, Tutorials, Graphs, Summaries, Import/Export, Customisable Interface, Calculator, Live Spell Check, and Install/Uninstall. Version 2.2.0 includes unspecified updates.
- Tags: Statistical Analysis, ESB Consultancy, Enterprise Service Bus, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2008-05-23
- Iona exec: open source unit not for sale, Mule is "not ESB"
- Iona exec: open source unit not for sale, Mule is "not ESB"It's MuleSource not MuleForce--thanks for confirming we are the leaderGreat to see Iona validating Mule as the leader and it will certainly be interesting to see what happens when a giant proprietary company acquires them. If Iona really understood...
- Tags: Enterprise Service Bus, Iona Technologies, open source, Mule, MuleSource
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
- Iona exec: open source unit not for sale, Mule is "not ESB"
- Iona may be on the block but it is not looking to spin off and sell off its nine-month-old open source business unit, said one key exec. Larry Alston, vice president and general manager of open source at Iona, acknowledged that the company is exploring strategic options after...
- Tags: Iona Technologies, Apache Software Foundation, Mule, Open Source, Enterprise Service Bus, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Quality assurance for SOA requires a different mindset
- Quality assurance for SOA requires a different mindsetSOA or ESB - the lines are blurredWhile I agree that SOA does require a different mindset to QA, I don’t necessarily agree it's more complex than or as dismal as this article suggest. It's just different - and if done right,...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Service Orientation, SOA, Enterprise Service Bus, QA, SOA Principles, messaging
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- MuleSource CEO: Mule 2.0 will kick enterprise butt
- MuleSource has launched a major upgrade of its open source Enterprise Service Bus software that offers a new Eclipse integrated development environment, easier configuration and stronger Spring integration. Mule 2.0 Community Edition was made available on April 1. The company's commercial enterprise edition -- based on version...
- Tags: MuleSource, Enterprise Service Bus, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Open Source, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Services, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Web publishing, CMS, BI most hot for open source disruption, but ESB and security are not?
- Acquia, KnowledgeTree and JasperSoft touted new open source web publishing, social software, content management and business intelligence products at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Acquia, of Andover, Mass., said it is on track this fall t ship a new social web publishing platform...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Security, JasperSoft, Web-publishing, Content Management System, KnowledgeTree, MuleSource, MuleSource 2.0 Community Edition, Open Source Security, 3D System, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Service Bus, Management, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Services-Based Enterprise Integration Patterns Made Easy, Part 2: More on the Evolution of Basic Concepts
- This paper, Part 2 of the series, picks up where the user left off in Part 1. Now that one has learned about the two earliest integration patterns - data sharing socket programming and Remote Procedure Call RPC - one continues developing the basic concepts. Check out two more developed...
- Tags: Concept, Enterprise Integration, Pattern, Enterprise Service Bus, RPC, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking
- White papers 2008-03-06
- Web 2.0 company buys SOA company: hmm...
- Acquisitions are a dime a dozen (okay, make that a billion a dozen) in the SOA space, and we've seen plenty of specialized SOA vendors get swept up by larger infrastructure players over the past couple of years. From enterprise service bus to integration on demand --...
- Tags: Web, Software-as-a-service, Web 2.0, Cape Clear Software, SOA, Workday, Ronan, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Service Bus, Middleware, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- MuleSource takes aim at SOA governance, launches subscription-based ESB
- MuleSource, a provider of open-source service-oriented architecture SOA infrastructure software, has jumped into the SOA governance pool with the community release today of Mule Galaxy 1.0. Galaxy, an open-source platform with integrated registry and repository, allows users to store and manage an increasing number of SOA...
- Tags: Open Source, SOA, SOA Governance, MuleSource, Galaxy, Mule 1.5 Enterprise Edition, Saturn, Enterprise Service Bus, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Services, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- Grid is 'the new ESB,' and a warning about Web 2.0 interfaces
- Grid is 'the new ESB,' and a warning about Web 2.0 interfacesThis will be a problem even in 300 yearsSee my small cartoon:http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2008/01/web-20-in-space.htmlBye,Oliver
- Tags: Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus, Web 2.0, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-01-11
- Grid is 'the new ESB,' and a warning about Web 2.0 interfaces
- David Chappell the SOA Oracle of Oracle issued his predictions for the market over the coming year, and says that grid computing will be hot, hot hot. But, he cautions, "the definition of grid will be as fuzzy as ESB [Enterprise Service Bus], " given "the various concepts of hardware...
- Tags: Web, SOA, Grid, David Chappell, Enterprise Service Bus, Web 2.0, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Web Services, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- SOA Scenarios From IBM, Part 5: Scenario 2 - Service Connectivity Options in a Real-World SOA Scenario
- View SOA within a software development lifecycle context using the IBM Service-Oriented Architecture SOA Foundation Lifecycle. This installment in the Architecture in practice series focuses on the Service Connectivity scenario, the second of the SOA scenarios. Explore four ways to realize connectivity between service producers and consumers that foster reuse...
- Tags: Scenario, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-12-18
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