June 2008 Archives

There's been a lot of rancor across the industry and blogosphere about the viability of SOA from the top down -- instigated as part of a huge business change -- versus bottom-up, in which individual SOA efforts pop up across... Read More..

As I just reported over at my ZDNet blogsite: I received word that Progress Software -- in the news this week for its acquisition of integration tools vendor IONA -- has also acquired Mindreef, a provider of SOA service validation... Read More..

Progress Software announced that it is acquiring IONA Technologies in a deal worth about $162 million. Progress said the IONA acquisition helps round out its product line to provide a "complete SOA backbone" for customers. The company said the deal... Read More..

Over the years, many companies have turned to app servers -- both Java Enterprise Edition and Microsoft .NET framework -- to handle, under the covers, the "plumbing" of messaging, standards, and protocols. App servers were seen as the easiest on-ramp... Read More..

Open source platforms offer a compelling value proposition for SOA deployments, and two case studies presented at the recent Red Hat summit demonstrate how this value can be realized. Writing in CIO, CIO's Esther Schindler provides accounts from SJ, the... Read More..

In a new Q&A published at SearchSOA, Dana Gardner surfaces a part of IT always pushed to the background in every sweeping paradigm change. Yet, no paradigm change could happen without it. We're talking about storage, that is. The question... Read More..

Forrester analyst Randy Heffner, who has made frequent appearances here for ebizQ events, has just released a report that describes the best way to "build a SOA." (Full report available here at ebizQ.) Or actually, as Heffner points out, the... Read More..

In today's news, ebizQ reports on a new bulletin issued by Butler Group which made the case that any and all SOA depends on governance. However, as Butler Group states, governance is more than putting a bunch of technologies in... Read More..

What are people working on these days, SOA-wise? That's the question put forth by SOA entrepreneur extraordinaire Dave Linthicum, who reports that the pace of SOA is slow, but steady. Companies are not jumping head-first into new approaches and technologies,... Read More..

We all know what we need to know about SOA, and learn more every day (especially if you visit the ebizQ site on a daily basis, right?). But how much do you know about some of the inner workings of... Read More..

Some duplication of systems and efforts may be okay for some businesses -- and it's not up to IT to decide otherwise Read More..

Fellow ebizQ community activist Brenda Michelson provides a glimpse of panels the SOA Consortium will be hosting at the impending Gartner AADI and EA (Application Architecture, Development, and Integration and Enterprise Architecture) Summits, to be held in O-Town, FLA. Todd... Read More..

The foundation of any SOA effort is the connectivity underneath that brings together all the IT resources needed to bear. On June 4, ebizQ will presenting the next in its series of virtual conferences, "Connectivity in Action." Enterprise connectivity is... Read More..

Southwest Florida is a booming region (real estate bust or not), but there are limits on growth -- particularly as it relates to the availability of water. That's why any and all new projects need to be cleared through the... Read More..