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Linthicum's book: SOA and cloud intersect for enterprise productivity benefits

October 26, 2009

Analysis of:How SOA and cloud intersect for enterprise productivity benefits | briefingsdirectblog.blogspot.com

SOA is the way to do cloud. It's really about breaking down your architecture into a primitive state of several components. Then, it's figuring out how to assemble those in such a way that you can use those components to resolve problems as your business changes over time. Cloud computing is a nice enhancement to that. Cloud doesn't replace SOA, but is basically an architectural option in how you can host your services.

Funny Adobe Moment at IBM Rational Conference

June 19, 2007

Analysis of:IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2007 | www-306.ibm.com

Comedian Mitch Fatel did a great job spicing up the keynote of the IBM Rational developer conference in Orlando today, but there was an interestingly telling moment I’d like to share.

Expect a June demo of Silverlight on Linux, sans browser

June 19, 2007

Analysis of:'Moonlight' makes progress on Silverlight for Linux | news.com.com

Production-ready it will not be, but Mono project busy beavers expect to provide a feasibility “alpha” demonstration in about two weeks of Microsoft’s recently unveiled Silverlight on Linux, says Miguel de Icaza, vice president of developer platforms at Novell and the leader of the Mono project.

Red Hat regains mischief-maker role with metadata vendor acquisition

May 4, 2007

Analysis of:Red Hat Buys MetaMatrix to Add Data Integration to the JBoss Middleware Stack | www.itjungle.com

 

As Red Hat and its JBoss unit ramp up their SOA offerings and capabilities, they are re-emerging as a powerful mischief-maker to the established commercial vendors — this time on the subject of data lifecycle in the age of SOA. But there soon could be much more mischief from Raleigh.

Red Hat this week announced a series of SOA-focused bundles of open source products and associated services, as well as the acquisition of enterprise information integration (EII) vendor MetaMatrix for an undisclosed fee.

SOA consolidation takes on new stripes, while extending to open source-oriented vendors

April 18, 2007

Analysis of:IONA Acquires LogicBlaze | home.businesswire.com

 

IONA Technologies' purchase today of LogicBlaze — while directed at the open-source development and business models for SOA — also further demonstrates the prevailing diversity of SOA consolidation activities. There seem to be as many variations on the SOA consolidation theme nowadays as there are vendors lining up to provide some kind of SOA value.

TIBCO scores on open source and debugging RIAs in one fell swoop

April 18, 2007

Analysis of:Tibco adds testing to general interface Ajax tooling | www.cbronline.com

TIBCO says its General Interface Test Automation Kit (GITAK) helps developers with QA on AJAX components and other rich Internet applications (RIAs).The program runs directly in a browser and allows developers to create automated test cases and run scenarios to validate that an application is performing as expected.

SOA consolidation ramps up with Software AG’s purchase of webMethods

April 18, 2007

Analysis of:IBM, HP, and the webMethods Takeover Bid | itmanagement.earthweb.com

German IT software infrastructure vendor Software AG is buying webMethods for nearly $550 million in cash, pulling together a larger solution set but perhaps more importantly straddling the Atlantic to serve both the North American and EU markets in ways many U.S. SOA components firms alone cannot.

SOA architects must be as much evangelists and consensus-builders as technologists

April 18, 2007

Analysis of:The great 2005 SOA talent hunt | searchwebservices.techtarget.com

 

Now that Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is percolating up inside enterprises — sometimes as a set of strategic initiatives, but more often as discrete pilot projects — the human resources needs are surfacing along with it. If you've got the right stuff, the budding role of SOA architect could be a rocket for your career.

BEA takes the Web 2.0 plunge, in the deep end

April 18, 2007

Analysis of:BEA to ship Web 2.0 inspired tools | news.com.com

After a lengthy gestation period, BEA Systems recently delivered three enterprise Web 2.0 applications at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech) in San Diego. The new products aim at enabling deep end-user participation, while at the same time giving IT the management and governance control essential to enterprise systems

SAP: Opportunities lost?

April 18, 2007

Analysis of:Shai Agassi is Leaving SAP | sramanamitra.com

 

The next five years will be a period of great change in the use, production and extension of software: new business models, new architectural approaches, new means by which to acquire services rather than software. SAP has been slow to adopt open source, if at all meaningfully.

IONA registry product enters the SOA governance fray

April 18, 2007

Analysis of:Iona adds repository for SOAs | www.infoworld.com

 

The relatively uncluttered landscape of SOA governance/registry products has another player with IONA’s announcement today of its Artix Registry/Repository. IONA says its new offering stands out from other such products because it's more than a static archive and allows customers to design, build, deploy and revise services into a distributed SOA infrastructure.

Governance and Management Will Evolve Through SOA

April 18, 2007

Analysis of:BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Analysts Explore SOA's Role Through Failure, Governance, Policy and Politics | briefingsdirect.blogspot.com

 

The traditional governance and management means of running a business — the levers, pulleys, cables, and brute muscle — will through SOA become more automated, rules- and event-driven, self-service, preprogrammed, policy-orchestrated … agile.

Partners use Amazon EC2 and S3 to move the needle on infrastructure as a service

April 18, 2007

Analysis of:rPath Teams with Amazon Web Service | www.rpath.com

 

Several announcements show that the Amazon infrastructure-as-a-service model is gaining serious traction, helping today's startups/ISVs/SaaS providers quickly create consumer and business services without an IT capital spending budget.

SCA/SDO goes to OASIS, could be to SOA what Java EE was to n-tier computing

April 18, 2007

Analysis of:Leading Technology Vendors Announce Completion of Specifications Designed to Simplify SOA Application Development | www.webservices.org

 

Seeking to make the Service Component Architecture (SCA) and its sibling Service Data Objects (SDO) the basis for a new generation of standardized architecture in the SOA era, the large IT vendors behind the developments have agreed to hand over the specifications for management and maturity to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)

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