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Microformats for fast REST APIs?

Microformats have been described as a set open data format standards for structured blogging and web content publishing. They have been tried out, for example, in the realm of XHTML. One tenet of the microformat movement has been to try to work with existing architectures and patterns, sometimes...

Application modernization: COBOL meets .NET

How will IT organizations maintain the COBOL applications written by the whiz kid programmers of the 1970s? Continued »

SOA meets Cloud Computing at Microsoft PDC

For Microsoft there seemed to be a somewhat humbler tone at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this past week. Even the biggest new SOA modeling and Cloud Computing initiatives were described as “nascent” works in progress and subject to change.

Microsoft’s muddled modeling: Getting the ducks in line

Microsoft basically has a sturdy place in the enterprise, but its role just now is very fluid. Of course, its Windows servers have been in the enterprise a long time, and its tools are very prevalent. But its success with desktop-based developer tools is only slowly converting to success with...

IBM vs. standards bodies?

Can major vendors buy standards bodies' approval for specifications that support their products? Continued »

Bill Gates shakes up SOA – Oslo embraces UML

It hasn't received much attention in SOA circles yet, but last week Bill Gates broke what might be the biggest news Microsoft has made in the SOA space since the debut of .NET. At the TechEd conference in Orlando, Fla. he announced

Technology lock-in, SOA and Magyarsoft

Our sister site, TheServerSide.com, has an interesting post on a kerfuffle between Microsoft and some Hungarian students who are angered that the company has bought the nation's technology curriculum. The...

REST-based SOA registry tilts at status quo

Last week WSO2 released a REST-based SOA registry, joining Mulesource, which

Could Yahoo! change Microsoft’s app dev focus?

Unless you've been under a rock, you've probably heard by now that Microsoft has placed a $44.6 billion bid to buy Yahoo!.

We'll leave it to others to ponder the Wall St....