October 2007 Archives

At last, it's here -- the "SOA in Action" virtual conference kicks off this week, Tuesday and Wednesday, October 30 and 31st! The folks at ebizQ have assembled an incredible schedule of top-flight speakers and compelling topics: Gartner's Roy Schulte... Read More..

Is Web 2.0 a 'distraction' from SOA? That's the possibility raised by Gartner analysts in a new podcast released by the consultancy. As analyst Jeff Comport put it, he has seen many clients "start out with grandiose plans… full architecture,... Read More..

So far, in ebizQ's groundbreaking SOA pronunciation poll, it appears more people prefer to sound out each letter of SOA as an acronym, Es-Oh-Aye, versus using it as a word, Soah, by a 50% to 30% margin. Frankly, I'm surprised.... Read More..

Are Web services too slow for financial exchanges, which must operate at real-time, breakneck speeds? The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), the world's largest physical commodities future exchange, has implemented service-oriented architecture to handle a massive messaging increase resulting from... Read More..

All too often, SOA security is left to individual developers, who may try to do everything they can to build in security features, but cannot address the complexities of internal and externalized security. I just had the opportunity to moderate... Read More..

Forrester's Ken Vollmer, who has been a guest here for ebizQ events, is a firm believer in SOA-business process management convergence. He recently told SearchWebServices' Rich Seeley that enterprise architects should be adopting the latest integration-centric business process management suites... Read More..

Friday, October 12th was a pretty exciting day in the SOA vendor world, with Oracle declaring it was willing to pony up close to $7 billion for middleware company BEA Systems. "Not good enough," BEA responded. (Maybe they'll accept my... Read More..

Word has it that 'Es-oh-Ay' leads 'SO-Ah’ as the correct way to pronounce SOA in ebizQ's latest poll on the matter. However, SO-AH has been gaining as of late, up six percentage points over the past few days. The latest... Read More..

S-O-A or Soah? You can help decide, once and for all... ebizQ is running a new poll on how SOA should be pronounced, and so far, the results are roughly 50-50 -- half say "Es-oh-ay," and half say "Soah." Readers,... Read More..

It was a year ago that ebizQ's Beth Gold-Bernstein and contributor Brenda Michelsen teamed up to deliver what I thought was one of the most definitive studies on SOA to date. (My links to the study and accompanying Webcast can... Read More..

Many products -- especially software -- can sit on shelves for years without raising a stink. Not so in the sour cream business -- if today's product doesn't ship, things can get really, well, sour. That was the challenge facing... Read More..