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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

'Whole-brained' enterprises need SOA: here are the numbers to prove it

Okay, okay, we get it -- business and IT need to be aligned. They're obviously not in alignment, or we wouldn't have 50,000 conference speakers and analyst reports telling us so. So, let's have at it, and align away.Finally, a study that provides hard numbers on the connection between business-IT...

Tags: SOA Surveys and Research, General, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Analysts: Automatically generated SOA services may have issues

Are automatically generated services the antithesis of SOA? Ronan Bradley and Steve Craggs of Lustratus Research are warning that services automatically generated from tools may not be reusable, and thus, of low value in an SOA scenario. The idea you could even consider generating services automatically from code is...

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

Blog posts 2006-12-19

Additional Resources

Grand Chase (Windows)

Grand Chase Features: Real Time Online Action RPG (Grand Chase is a multiplayer Action RPG with a refined, in-depth fighting system), Characters/Jobs (Ranging from archer to spearman, choose from 5 different unique characters and 14 different jobs, each with their own set of skills and unique fighting style), Arcade-Style Controls...

Tags: Monster, Mode, Character, Ntreev USA, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-03-17

Works of Sir Walter Scott. Huge collection. (150+ Works) FREE Author's biography and stories (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. REE Author's biography and stories in the trial version.Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference, REE Author

Software downloads 2007-10-16

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

Analysts: don't 'shoehorn' event-driven processing into SOA

Is event-driven architecture EDA the new SOA? My recent post on the topic kicked up some interesting commentary out in the blogosphere. Generally, analysts/bloggers feel that while more of SOA will be event-driven, EDA is a phenomenon that will evolve in its own right. Will event-driven processing be the...

Tags: Business ROI, General

Blog posts 2007-03-06

Dessert topping or floor wax? The ESB debate rages on

Many of you may remember the classic parodied commercial from Saturday Night Lives days of yore, when a husband and wife argued whether a new product, Shimmer, is a dessert topping or a floor wax, when an announcer cut in and proclaimed that "Shimmer is both a floor wax and...

Tags: General, Enterprise Service Bus

Blog posts 2007-01-11

Auto-generated services okay in model-driven SOA

Theres been an interesting industry give-and-take around the "generated services" debate that weve had going at this blogsite. A number of industry observers say that automatically generated services (a "code-first" versus a "contract-first" approach) have hooks too deep in legacy systems or specific languages to be made available for reuse...

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

Blog posts 2006-12-21

Another view on 'contract-first' vs. 'code-first' approach to SOA

IONAs Steve Vinoski saw my recent post on the potential issues with SOA services that are automatically generated -- or what he calls "code-first services" -- and provides more insights on the approach. Steve makes the distinction between code-first services and "contract-first" services that are designed and run independently of...

Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, General

Blog posts 2006-12-20

Is Microsoft caving or positioning to pounce?

Theres quite a bit of discussion on my colleagues blog pages about what Microsoft is up to regarding its Linux stance. What exactly does Microsoft want out of its alliance with Novell? Will it send in its lawyers out in an all-out war with Linux? The same types of questions...

Tags: Middleware, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), positioning, Enterprise Service Bus, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2006-11-21

Another view: ESBs are so early 2000s

Another view: ESBs are so early 2000sSCA has to go a long way before it is an alternative to anythingThe problem I have with SCA is simple: It is too much about framework and not enough about actually doing anything! Apart from Service Data Objects SDO, it is...

Tags: Middleware, EAI, Enterprise Service Bus, Service Component Architecture, Windows Communication Foundation

Discussion threads 2006-11-02

Panel: supply and demand will drive SOA reuse

I recently joined Ronan Bradley, Dave Linthicum, Neil Ward-Dutton, and Elizabeth Book in an ebizQ panel discussion/podcast that sought to shed more light on the value of reuse in service-oriented architectures.  (The podcast can be accessed here at my ebizQ blogsite.) There's been a lot of heated discussion lately within...

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

Blog posts 2006-10-26

At last, Microsoft talks up 'ESB'

It seemed that to Microsoft, "enterprise service buses" were those vehicles that transported people around the Redmond campus.Now, it appears Microsoft is pushing the role of ESBs a little harder as part of its emerging go-to-market SOA strategy. It's even actively using the term 'ESB.'  Earlier this month, the software...

Tags: Enterprise Service Bus

Blog posts 2006-10-24

Is SOA architecture or technology?

My ZDNet blogging colleague David Berlind talks about the "uncomputer," based on the fact that the computer as we know it is evolving into a set of APIs. Perhaps we can extend this logic and call service-oriented architecture the "untechnology." Untechnology because applications may evolve into sets of services that...

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

Blog posts 2006-01-04

Survey: SOA muddles up business processes

SOA is all about streamlining and managing business processes, but if you really need to streamline and manage your business processes, stay away from SOA. That's one interpretation from a recent survey on SOA implementations. Does SOA make business process management BPM even more difficult than it already is? Line56's...

Tags: business process, SOA

Blog posts 2005-12-20

BPEL gets bopped... again

Is BPEL the language of the people? In his latest post, Web services guru David Chappell wonders out loud if BPEL, or business process execution language, is really all it's cranked up to be. BPEL is seen as the glue that will loosely couple Web services components into an SOA....

Tags: BPEL

Blog posts 2005-10-28

JBI: Is it, or isn't it, right for SOA?

Java Business Integration JBI continues to stir passions on the right and on the left. Here is what some leading thinkers are saying about the spec: IONA's Steve Vinoski attempts to clear the air with this very explanative article on how JBI fits into an integration...

Tags: Java Business Integration

Blog posts 2005-07-12

Another view: Java is not an island

In my previous post ("What Does Sun See Beyond SeeBeyond?"), I discussed Phil Wainewright's concerns around the openness and maturity of Java Business Integration JBI. In his Loosely Coupled Weblog, Wainewright states that IBM and BEA feel JBI may be too closely tied to Java, rather than being completely language...

Tags: Java Business Integration

Blog posts 2005-07-05

BPEL gets bopped

The world seems to be warming up to Business Process Execution Language, or BPEL. It's a specification with a lot of promise, and BPEL scripts will be the key to actually coupling (in a loose way, of course) Web services.My blogmate Britton provides a great overview of Business Process Execution...

Tags: BPEL

Blog posts 2005-01-12