April 2, 2010 5:20 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
SOANoting here that Ed Roberts, inventor of Altair personal computer, died at 68. There is no one person that can claim the invention of the personal computer. But the Altair inspired many others....
March 19, 2010 7:03 PM
Posted by: RobBarry
cloud computing,
SOAAt TheServerSide Java symposium this year, excitement about hooking SOA into cloud computing abounds. In his keynote, "Application Grids and SOA," Oracle VP of product management David Shaffer talked about the three major sub-components of cloud computing.
Infrastructure as a Service, comprising...
March 1, 2010 11:44 PM
Posted by: RobBarry
MDM,
SOAIt seems as though the healthcare industry is weathering the recession pretty well—or so it looks from what some vendors have been investing in lately. Both Oracle and Axolotl Corp. released products today at the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference....
February 15, 2010 9:05 PM
Posted by: RobBarry
SOAOracle announced on Feb. 10 that it has agreed to buy Convergin, provider of a J2EE-based service broker for the telecommunications industry. Through this acquisition, Oracle said it hopes to offer a carrier-grade, standards-based IT platform that allows communications service providers to evolve...
February 1, 2010 4:32 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
SOAPlaying at the moment on the SearchSOA Video Library is “Middleware Minute” in which Rob Barry and I kick around some thoughts on the news of the day. In this case we discuss recent BPM mergers and Oracle’s...
December 29, 2009 7:23 PM
Posted by: RobBarry
SOAEven through the tough economy, SOA continued to evolve this year, bolstered by interest in cloud computing. As frameworks and specifications like OSGi and Java EE 6 pushed for more componentized enterprise applications, the Java world itself shook when Oracle announced its intent to buy Sun...
October 14, 2009 9:43 PM
Posted by: RobBarry
SOAAt the Microsoft Patterns & Practices Summit in Redmond today, SOA and distributed architectures were the topic of considerable discussion. Rockford Lhotka, principal technical evangelist at Microsoft partner Magnetic and creator of CSLA .NET, said SOA is nothing new. But he has started to see...
October 7, 2009 5:39 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
SOAI was thinking ... We often think of Agile as a trend within development and software architecture. But some of the tenets of this movement appear in the discussions of BPM advocates, many of them residing in Operations. SOA teams had better talk and walk the Agile talk and walk just as well as...
September 14, 2009 2:25 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
SOAIBM is announcing a new set of professional services. They include IBM Smart Business Desktop on the IBM Cloud, IBM Mobile Enterprise Services for Managed Blackberry, and IBM Converged Communications Services.
As part of the push, IBM will feature a Jam – a large-scale webcast that will...
