Messaging

Alaska freight tracking made easier by open source messaging software

Reliable messaging can be hard to achieve in difficult terrains. This was apparent as we met up recently with a lead developer of a major freight company that specializes in shipping to and from far flung facilities in Alaska.

Rob Terpilowski, lead...

Cloudforce brings social networking Chatter to the fore

Last week, Salesforce.com held a CloudForce event here in Boston.  They have already been through Washington DC, and they'll be making their way across the nation.  As Barney Beal reports,...

Low-latency ESB solution relies on high-powered hardware

Content networking appliance maker Solace Systems pressed the case for its hardware approach to middleware with a recent high-speed message caching update for its Unified Messaging Platform. Think of it as an ESB accelerator!

JMS message system at heart of Portland Fish Exchange update

Business process management can get gory! At least that is the case when a fish exchange looks to automate parts of its supply chain processes. Recently, the Portland Fish Exchange in Maine built an online fresh seafood auction system based on Progress technology. Progress Application Partner DC...

Deadline extended for SearchSOA.com products of the year

Last week we got flooded with requests to extend the deadline for our Products of the Year Awards submissions. Normally we'd have taken a "no soup for you" stance on this, but when the requests topped the dozen mark we figured we should grant an extension.

Now you've got until...

Oracle buys BEA, but the app dev, SOA suites still conflict

Oracle Corp. finally came up with an offer BEA Systems Inc. couldn't refuse, but the sale is merely a prelude to a pile of "now what?" questions. The next year in the application...

New lesson on SOA messaging

We spend a lot of time these days talking about governance and management when it comes to SOA. There's a good reason to take that macro view, because far too many people get lost in the trees and fail to see the forest when it comes to service orientation. We are talking about enterprise...