SOA development

Oracle faces skeptical BEA customer base

The good news for Oracle Corp. is it seems to have acquired a happy BEA Systems Inc. customer base. Yet the bad news for Oracle is that it seems to have acquired a happy BEA customer base that isn't particularly thrilled with the Oracle purchase, according to a SearchSOA.com poll taken last...

BEA, Oracle user survey results

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1. Which BEA products do you use? (check all that apply)

SOA acquisition week: Progress adds Mindreef

You wouldn't know the mergers and acquisitions market on Wall Street was in the doldrums if you were just watching Progress Software Corp. this week. First, Progress snapped up IonaTechnologies Inc.,...

BEA, Oracle users quiz

Next Tuesday Oracle will announce its plans for how it intends to integrate BEA inside its corporate walls. While we probably won't get too many specific product roadmaps, we should get an idea of how Oracle intends to handle the product overlap in the areas of SOA and Java development. Yet...

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

Having trouble with SOA? Pay attention to the architecture

There are some anecdotal claims out there in cyberspace that some companies are struggling with SOA. Mind you, we never really hear who these companies are or much about the details of what kind of trouble they've had. That makes it hard to assess what the problem is. Are these users actually...

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...

Look who’s using SOA

We at SearchSOA.com have a number of SOA user stories in the works at the moment and it strikes me that we could just about churn out a case study a day at this point in time. Last month at the IBM Impact...

SOA experts, we’ve got ‘em

Pro wrestling legend Rowdy Roddy Piper immortalized the words "Just when they think they've got the answers, I change the questions." Now we at SearchSOA.com are asking...

Java EE 6 needs SCA, SAP architect says

Java EE 6, now in the development stage, needs to embrace the service component architecture (SCA) specification, argues Sanjay Patil, standards architect at SAP AG. The Java Community Process Web page for Java EE 6 indicates that SCA is being...