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- The implications of the SCA/SDO handover
- Fellow ZDNet analyst Dana Gardner provides an analysis of this weeks announcement in which IT vendors are handing over the specifications for Service Component Architecture SCA and Service Data Objects SDO to OASIS.Dana calls this an important advancement for SOA:"This move shows an aggressive path for major vendors to making...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, SCA/SDO
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- SCA/SDO goes to OASIS, could be to SOA what Java EE was to n-tier computing
- Seeking to make the Service Component Architecture SCA and its sibling Service Data Objects SDO the basis for a new generation of standardized architecture in the SOA era, the large IT vendors behind the developments have agreed to hand over the specifications for management and maturity to the Organization for...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SCA/SDO, OASIS, SOA, Java
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
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- Can a case be made against the Palin e-mail hacker?
- It's probably only a matter of time before the feds arrest the kid who allegedly hacked into Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account. If the news reports are true, it looks like fingers are pointing to the 20-year-old son of a Democratic state legislator in Tennessee. But, here's...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Service Component Architecture, U.S. Department Of Justice, Hacker, E-mail, Online Communications, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Why your text messages are not private
- Why your text messages are not privatesolutionAll new text messaging clients should just use 128 bit encryption by default. Then there would be no legal battles to fight from either side.If text messaging application providers would as a standard use 128 bit encryption for login/password validation and for the...
- Tags: E-mail, Network technology, Google Inc., licence
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Observations: what's moving the SOA market these days
- I just had the chance to catch up with MomentumSI's Jeff Schneider while he was up in the Princeton, NJ, area. MomentumSI does a lot of consulting and integration work for SOA projects in organizations across the country, so Jeff's practice is a good bellwether for what's on the minds...
- Tags: SOA, Jeff Schneider, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-06-08
- Analyst: vendor issues still dog Service Component Architecture
- Web services guru and consultant David Chappell, who has been somewhat skeptical about Service Component Architecture SCA, says the specification is starting to gain traction. However, there are still nagging issues around the ways vendors are supporting component development within the SCA framework. Over the past year,...
- Tags: Service Component Architecture, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- Whoa, WOA: Are acronyms clouding up the cloud?
- ZDNet colleague Dana Gardner points to Michael Meehan's recent post on the Web Oriented Architecture WOA -- Mike spoke with some industry practitioners who apparently didn't think too much of the "WOA" moniker, striking them "as redundant and nothing particularly new, an empty suit if you will." Just another fancy...
- Tags: Web, SOA, Web Oriented Architecture, SOA Folk, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- 'Enough with WOA, stick to SOA,' say IT architects - I say drop WOA and SOA
- 'Enough with WOA, stick to SOA,' say IT architects - I say drop WOA and SOAIt's all quite insane[i]so ramp up on that registry/repository, BPEL engine, scalable middleware beyond EAI, SOAP and XML appliances, additional performance management tier, ESB, federated ESB, data services tier (and another 15 acronyms there), SCA/SDO...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Enterprise Service Bus, Middleware, Enterprise software, Performance management, information technology, WOA, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- 'Enough with WOA, stick to SOA,' say IT architects - I say drop WOA and SOA
- Mike Meehan at SearchSOA.com has done some homework on the use of Web Oriented Architecture WOA, and the IT folks in the field are fed up. Enough with the labels, they seem to be saying. And they raise excellent points. I for one am by no means...
- Tags: Web, Information Technology, SOA, Service, Web Oriented Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Manufacturer Upgrades Operating System, Improves Security and Access to Resources
- Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA manufactures and sells paper products and consumer goods to companies in more than 90 countries. With 51,000 employees spread across 600 sites, SCA relies on Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services to give employees and business partners access to IT resources over a Virtual Private Network VPN....
- Tags: Security, Employee, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Windows Server, Operating System, Terminal Services, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- TIBCO beefs up ActiveMatrix with 2.0 release, moves to 'Total Architecture' value
- Promising hefty productivity increases and a lower TCO , TIBCO Software this week announced its beefed-up ActiveMatrix 2.0, which aims to simplify bilding and managing service-oriented architectures SOAs. This latest release adds BusinessWorks, which is available either in standalone mode or as a container hosted in...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SOA, ActiveMatrix 2.0, TIBCO ActiveMatrix Product Family, SOA Infrastructure, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Podcasts, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Microsoft confirms Excel flaw; outlines defense
- Microsoft confirms Excel flaw; outlines defenseMister Dignan , who cares ? Certainly not I .I steer clear from every product that company makes .You forgot an importantand largely overlooked work-around: Use Open Office to view and save the Excel file. OO 2.3 can open and save Excel files from Excel...
- Tags: MICROSOFT JUST, Office 2003 SP3, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Microsoft confirms Excel flaw, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft confirms Excel, Microsoft Confirms, Microsoft Office 2007
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- 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
- Macworld Expo Las Vegas 2009!
- Macworld Expo Las Vegas 2009!No Way!Between CES and other big tradeshows that are going on in January, there is no way that Macworld will ever set foot in Vegas. SF is closer to Apple, and I think that the city makes deals with IDG and Apple to promote their...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Macworld, Macworld Expo, Apple Inc., Consumer Electronics Show, Vega, SFO, Las Vegas 2009
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- Don't want to swim with the SOA sharks? Here's another SOA 'fish'
- If you prefer not to swim with the SOA sharks, then the less treacherous open-source variety of aquatic creature may be for you. The latest open-source integration platform to consider is something called Swordfish, details of which were covered in this report in InfoWorld. ...
- Tags: SOA, Swordfish, General Availability, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Open Source, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- CSSOC - Content Services Switch Operation and Configuration
- View Available Dates and LocationsThis comprehensive 5-day Cisco Authorized course provides you with the required knowledge on technologies and products essential for high-speed content network switching applications. This 11000 Series Operation and Configuration class provides you with intensive hands-on training using Cisco's 11050, 11150, 11800, and...
- Tags: Switch, Cisco Systems Inc., Configure, Web Servers, Servers, Networking, Internet, Hardware
- Training 2008-01-01
- Java now shares limelight with other platforms
- Will Java Platform survive? Should end-users be enabled to design their own apps? Paul Patrick, chief architect of BEA, has some interesting views on these topics. A few weeks back at BEA World, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Paul, who, in his...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Reality, Programming Languages, Java, J2Ee, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- OpenOffice won't fork -- for now
- OpenOffice won't fork -- for nowStopping innovation?You can anything you like with open source, as long as we approve...RE: OpenOffice won't fork -- for nowThe surprising thing to me is that it's so surprising to some that there is an argument going on in public. Some folks get needless hysterical...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice, Sun Microsystems Inc., Contribution, Sun Contributor Agreement, agreement
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- OpenOffice won't fork -- for now
- In spite of a bitter battle between Novell and Sun developers, OpenOffice won't fork – at least for now. That's the consensus among several OpenOffice developers who are locked in a bitter dispute with Sun over how the open source project is governed but who nevertheless...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Fork, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- Why doesn't Microsoft get in on the Service Component Architecture action?
- Microsoft is pretty well known for creating its own bandwagons, not jumping on someone else's. But if Microsoft is really serious about SOA, shouldn't it at least get in on the Service Component Architecture action? After all, SCA is about moving the SOA service code base away from specific languages,...
- Tags: Service Component Architecture, Microsoft Corp., Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
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