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EclipseCon debuts OSGi runtime offerings, common platform frees up developers from middleware drudgery

Tony Baer has a great rundown of the EclipseCon OSGI-based runtime Equinox news today. Extending the Eclipse community's unity to runtimes makes a ton of sense, given that developers can focus on the applications and business logic and become far less concerned with complex deployment issues. Write once, run anywhere?...

Tags: Developer, Runtime, SOA, Eclipse, OSGi, Tony Baer, Equinox, Eclipse-Equinox Ecology Symmetry, Java Community, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Java Development Tools, Open Source, Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Now raging: battle for the soul of JBoss

Intrepid analyst-on-the-go Tony Baer reports he's hopping between two simultaneous conferences in Orlando JBoss and IDS Scheer. The conferences may be sharing the same conference venue, but the cultural chasm couldn't be wider, Tony observes: "On one side, a bunch of open source developers [the JBossers], on the other, a...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., JBoss, Tony Baer, Java Development Tools, Development Tools, Open Source, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-02-14

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Panel: too much to lose by moving to generic services and cloud?

Do we put competitive advantage at risk when moving to generic services? Or perhaps the whole scenario of enterprise IT being edged out by the cloud is overblown? Consider the the mainframe, as Dana Gardner recently put it: "In the early 1990s, IT pundits, and my former boss Stewart...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Information Technology, SOA, Cloud, Jim, BBrad, Business Intelligence, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Mainframes, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Web Services, Management, Servers, Hardware, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Scheerware: Software AG scoops up BPM vendor

Another big acquisition is in the works, and a vendor is putting big money into the increasingly overlapping SOA-business process management BPM space. Software AG just announced that it has signed a contract with Drs. August-Wilhelm Scheer and Alexander Pocsay to acquire IDS Scheer AG, a well-established BPM vendor, for...

Tags: BPM, WebMethods Inc., Software AG, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Web Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Is SOA governance also its own silo?

The purpose of SOA governance is to cut across all the silos and get all the business on the same page, using the same services. However, my chum Tony Baer over at Ovum is seeing evidence that organizations may be spawning a brand-new silo in the process...

Tags: SOA, SOA Governance, Silo, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-08

The Oracle-buys-Sun thing - 'Snorkel' - what's the deal with that?

"Thanks Larry for finally putting us out of our misery." -Tony Baer There's been a firehose of commentary to be found about today's announcement that Oracle intends to buy Sun, so I won't add to the noise. But I will point to some insightful remarks...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Dana, Miko, Programming Languages, Java, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Middleware, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-20

IBM buying Sun Microsystems makes no sense, it's a red herring

Someone has floated a trial balloon, through a leak to the Wall Street Journal, that IBM is in "talks" to buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion. The only party that would leak this information is Sun itself, and it smacks of desperation in trying to thwart an unwanted acquisition, or...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Nope, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Source, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Investment, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Soft talk: What is service oriented communications, and why will it matter?

Can we build our phone systems as standardized applications or services that will easily plug into the rest of our IT infrastructures? That's the promise of service oriented communications, which could convert communications and communications channels (voice, text, conference calls, email, IM) into software, so we can...

Tags: Communication, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Podcasts, E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-02-02

BriefingsDirect analysts discuss Service Oriented Communications, debate how dead SOA really is

Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Additional underwriting by TIBCO Software. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition,...

Tags: Communication, SOA, Service, Architecture, SOC, Communications Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-01-26

Spike in enterprise 'events' spurs debut of Event Processing Technical Society

The recent growth -- and expected spike -- in business event data in enterprises has led a group of IT industry leaders to form the Event Processing Technical Society EPTS, designed to encourage adoption and effective use of event processing methods and technology in applications. Among the...

Tags: Event, Podcasts, Utility Computing, Internet, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-06-03

How SOA and IT are faring in the 'unrecession'

Rich Seeley, who has been tracking the relationship between the overall economy and IT/SOA in the recent turbulent months, just posted an update on how SOA has been faring through it all. SOA will sink or swim because of SOA, not the economy He...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Tension emerges between SOA and mashup camps

The promise of mashups -- that lightweight front-end apps that can be assembled by business users -- adds a new, more palatable dimension to SOA. Mashups make SOA real to business users - nothing wrong with that The mashup market appears to...

Tags: SOA, Mashup, Tension, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-26

Ingres brings OpenROAD tool for rapid DB apps development to GPL

Ingres Corp. is hoping for strong community involvement with its Open ROAD rapid application development RAD tool by taking it to GPL v2 release. The Redwood City, Calif., open source database management company has made the new release available on its Web site and said it...

Tags: GPL, Tool, Ingres, 4GL OpenROAD, OpenROAD Application, Databases, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?

Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...

Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-15

BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking

Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...

Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Goodbye real-time era, hello 'event-driven' era

If banks are so smart with their terabytes' worth of customer information, why do you have to keep reminding them what language you speak every time you interact with them? 100 million events a month, but few are tied to data in databases Speaking...

Tags: Bank, Event, Storage, ATM, Databases, Financial Services, Networking, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-06

'WOA: the SOA that works'

"WOA: the SOA that works." That's how fellow ZDNet blogger and analyst Phil Wainewright described the Web Oriented Architecture phenomenon that has been a topic of hot discussion as of late, at the latest Analyst BriefingsDirect podcast we just wrapped yesterday. The podcast (audio...

Tags: SOA, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-04-25

Analyst Insights podcast examines WOA-SOA continuum with keen eye on cloud computing

Read a full transcript of the podcast.  There's been welling interest and discussion lately around so-called Web Oriented Architecture WOA and established Services Oriented Architecture SOA, and how the two relate. And then there's the whole cloud computing trend, and well ... how does that relate, too?...

Tags: Web, Cloud Computing, SOA, Podcasts, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-25

Thought leadership grows around advancing 'WOA plus SOA' as enterprise-cloud duo

Respected developer, adviser and thought leader Dion Hinchcliffe has posted a watershed blog that develops a compelling rationale for Web Oriented Architecture's (WOA's) advancing role in enterprises. The logic is not to supplant or dismiss Service Oriented Architecture SOA, but rather to examine how WOA -- also...

Tags: Leadership, SOA, WOA, Dion, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-17

SOA and compute clouds point to rethinking data entirely: roles and permissions, not rows and tables

There's nothing like a conversation to bring out insights and new ideas. Tony Baer and I were chatting on this very pearl of productivity last week, that an open roundtable analyst call always allowed us to move the needle forward in terms of thought leadership in ways that solo writing...

Tags: Permission, Data, SOA, Cloud, Cloud Business, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Sales, Marketing, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-15