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Microsoft unviels its 'Internet Service Bus': More indications that Microsoft is getting serious about SOA:Chris Kanaracus of Redmond Developer News has brought to light some very interesting activity coming out of Microsoft regarding delivery of the SOA paradigm. Namely, Microsoft is planning to deliver enterprise service bus functions on a Software as a Service model.Now, there's...; Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, General; Blog posts 2007-07-18
Microsoft promises 'shrink-wrapped' SOA: Microsoft is reportedly set to offer what at least one commentator has called its "first shrink-wrapped SOA stack." According to a report in ENT, the vendor's new Service-Oriented Architecture & Business Process pack consists of an array of the company's core development tools and back-end components, along with guidance materials...; Tags: General, Vendor Watch, Web Services; Blog posts 2007-07-12
Survey: mainframes now being service-enabled, not replaced: A new survey confirms what many of us already suspected: that mainframe and other legacy systems are no longer being ripped up and replaced. Instead, the operative term is now "modernization." And SOA has helped fuel this sea change.A new survey finds modernizing is preferable to replacing Big Iron. Times...; Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, SOA Surveys and Research, General, Business ROI; Blog posts 2007-06-29
An SOA built without Web services!: Last week, I posted some thoughts about divorcing Web services from service-oriented architecture. The two work together, but aren't necessarily the same. Lo and behold, this story from TechTarget comes up -- SOA is now being employed for the monitoring controls for the world's largest particle accelerator, but employing Java-based...; Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, General, Case Studies; Blog posts 2007-06-26
SOA business case: smaller is better: There's been quite a bit of debate as of late as to whether SOA should start small and incrementally, or be introduced from the top down as a transformative venture. The word out of the recent BEA Systems executives annual Arch 2 Arch customer conference in Nice, France, is 'start...; Tags: Vendor Watch, General, Business ROI; Blog posts 2007-06-22

Microsoft bides its time with SOA: My colleague Dana Gardner observes in his most recent post that Microsoftis notably absent from the Service Component Architecture/Service Data Objects initiatives that the other major vendors are supporting.As Dana observes: "Microsoft will pursue its proprietary approach of baking pseudo-SOA into its operating system stack as long as it can."It...; Tags: Vendor Watch, General; Blog posts 2007-06-20
Analysts: more SOA vendor carnage ahead: A new report from Butler Group confirms what we already suspected: the big vendors are pouring out lots of cash in efforts to roll up smaller, more specialized SOA vendors into suites -- and will continue to do so.The Big SOA vendors are being chased upstream to maintain their high-margin...; Tags: General, Vendor Watch; Blog posts 2007-06-20
O'Toole: The era of Big SOA is over: In previous blogs, we talked about the oxymoron of "SOA Suites" (SOA is supposed to free us from vendor lock-in, right?), and the growing tendency of vendors to want to package anything and everything into Big Honking SOA suites.In a recently published interview at TechTarget, Cape Clear's Annrai O'Toole says...; Tags: Business ROI, General, Vendor Watch; Blog posts 2007-06-15
Calling all disruptors: the perfect storm of SOA, SaaS, and open source beckons: I just had the opportunity to check out the World Innovation Forum being held this week in New York, in which Clayton Christensen, Harvard professor and author of The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution, talked about the paradox that emerges when new technologies commoditize the marketplace. Namely, that when...; Tags: Vendor Watch, General, Business ROI; Blog posts 2007-06-05
SaaS Opens Up SOA Beyond the Firewall: The convergence of service-oriented architecture and Software as a Service lays open the possibilities of bringing in services from outside the firewall, which can be "snapped" into place within a company's infrastructure. This also means that services a company creates can be introduced to a broader market beyond the firewall.Miko...; Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, General, Business ROI; Blog posts 2007-06-04
Service Component Architecture gets slapped around a bit: Service component architecture SCA is a good thing, right? Isn't it supposed to elevate SOA-ish things above Java and all that other those other bothersome languages with their own protocols, complexities, and latency issues?Well, some analysts out there have professed that SCA has, well, issues. David Chappell, for one,...; Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, Standards Watch, General; Blog posts 2007-06-01
'Corner office' vs. 'ground floor' SOA: ZDNet colleague Dana Gardner points out that "when the hype curve descends, advocacy takes over." That's what is happening with SOA as of late, as evidenced by the emergence of the SOA Consortium, which includes large enterprises and vendors on its membership roles.SOA Consortium Executive Director Richard Soley wants to...; Tags: Vendor Watch, General; Blog posts 2007-05-31
Saugatuck: why SOA adoption is at a 'crawl': Maybe it's because vendors still sell SOA as toolsets, versus concepts. (Who can sell a "concept," right?) Or, maybe business users are perplexed by the technospeak that typically is invoked in SOA discussions. For a variety of reasons, SOA adoption has been moving at a snail's pace within enterprises, according...; Tags: Business ROI, General, SOA Surveys and Research, Vendor Watch; Blog posts 2007-05-30
BEA joins race to event-driven SOA: Is EDA (event-driven architecture) the next frontier of SOA? BEA believes it is. Just a couple of weeks back, Oracle also said the future of SOA is EDA. The vision is that a SOA , though loosely coupled, should be able to respond to events in real time (or at...; Tags: General, Vendor Watch; Blog posts 2007-05-29
How to keep too many cooks from spoiling the SOA broth: As part of InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum held last week in New York, I hosted a podcast with with special guest Ashish Mohindroo, Oracle's Fusion Middleware Director. Ashish was a featured speaker at the Forum. In our chat, Ashish laid out the case clearly and concisely for SOA governance. Many...; Tags: Business ROI, General, Vendor Watch; Blog posts 2007-05-24
IBM: concern about SOA maturity is sooo 2004: Some analysts say SOA has yet to prove itself. However, the two biggest IT infrastructure vendors say SOA has moved well beyond the "prove-it" stage. IBM, which sometimes can be very tepid about ballyhooing some of its most well-respected technologies think iSeries and AIX appears to be anything but...; Tags: General, Vendor Watch; Blog posts 2007-05-23
Oracle says future of SOA is EDA; ditches 'SOA 2.0': Many commentators appear to have been underwhelmed by goings-on at last weeks Java One confab, but at least Oracle made some SOA news when it laid out its Fusion middleware vision.And, unlike past pronouncements, the vendor did not refer to its new emerging vision as "SOA 2.0."Oracle says Fusion is...; Tags: General, Vendor Watch, Web Services; Blog posts 2007-05-14
Where have all the (SOA) flowers gone? Gone to bigger companies every one...: Well, not quite every one. MomentumSI has actually published a list of the SOA-related companies that have been acquired, and those that are still sitting at home Saturday nights, waiting for suitors. (Thanks to James Hamilton for the pointer.)Last week, I relayed Dave Linthicums concern that a shrinking pool...; Tags: Vendor Watch, General; Blog posts 2007-04-30
IBM disses UDDI; calls for a new SOA registry standard: IBM spokespeople are stating that the UDDI standard for registries isnt cutting it, and the "time is now" for a new registry standard more focused on todays SOA realities.In a new report in ITWeek, IBM manager states that SOAs have stretched the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration UDDI web services...; Tags: General, Standards Watch, Vendor Watch, Web Services; Blog posts 2007-04-26
SAP chief: Collaborate or die: At this weeks big SAP confab in Atlanta, SOA as a enabler for collaboration between companies was front and center of SAP CEO Henning Kagermanns address to the 14,000 assembled attendees. At the confab, the ERP giant announced that its "Enterprise SOA" strategy is on track, and that it intends...; Tags: Business ROI, General, Vendor Watch; Blog posts 2007-04-24