HP and Oracle team up on ‘data warehouse appliances’ that re-architect database-storage landscape
"Oracle CEO Larry Ellison today introduced the company’s first hardware products, a joint effort with Hewlett-Packard, to re-architect large database and storage configurations and gain whopping data warehouse and business intelligence performance improvements from the largest data sets."...
Orchestration vs. Choreography: Debate Over Definitions
.."With increasing attention given to SOA, it becomes more and more important to standardize (give precise meaning) the terminology used. An interesting discussion illuminates that point.The discussion was started by Michael Poulin who was asking the question about the difference between "orchestration" and "choreography" hoping to be pointed to the place where the difference "had been clearly articulated". Instead of a simple answer, his question caused a flurry of replies, each giving a slightly different meaning to the terms and interpreting them differently.."...
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expands Certified Configurations, Adds More Mainframe & Java SE 6 Support
"We are pleased to announce that the latest Cumulative Patch for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) v4.2 and v4.3 has expanded its number of Certified Configurations and has added support for more mainframes and Java SE 6."...
SOA adoption down from 2006: if so, why?
..."perhaps the adoption numbers are lower because there is greater clarity about SOA. General understanding of what SOA is — and isn’t — has matured since 2006. Companies may have a better sense of where they stand on the continuum between JBOWS (Just a Bunch of Web Services) and SOA enablement."...
Survey says: Aligning IT operations with business goals increases agility, cuts costs
"Aligning IT with business goals — and the benefits that brings to a business — have long been a recurrent theme of the podcasts and discussions we’ve done over the last few years. So it’s gratifying to see a worldwide study showing that businesses are not only pursuing this strategy, but are reaping significant benefits from it."...
Attention US developers: Active Endpoints has a wake-up call for you
"Copied below is the text of an email we sent today to more than 30,000 developers in the US. We are in a unique position to see what the rate of adoption of modern development tools is. And what we’ve seen is so strong a trend, we simply had to go public with what we’ve learned...."
Progress Software Corporation to Acquire IONA Technologies
Addition of IONA's broad, standards-based integration technologies extends Progress Software industry leadership in SOA infrastructurefor heterogeneous IT environments
WSO2 adds out-of-the-box support for SOA lifecycle management to open source WSO2 Registry 1.1
WSO2 adds out-of-the-box support for SOA lifecycle management to open source WSO2 Registry 1.1
SOA Software Announces SOA Governance for Microsoft .NET Framework
"SOA Software announced that it has certified Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) within the Microsoft .NET Framework as Governed Service Platforms. This allows customers to confidently use the .NET Framework, which includes WCF, as part of a heterogeneous enterprise SOA environment sharing services with other commercial SOA platforms like SAP NetWeaver, IBM WebSphere, BEA, and Oracle, as well as RedHat and other open source providers."...
Layer 7 Technologies expands into Belgian market through partnership with leading European Systems Integrator Steria
Partnership Introduces Innovative Web Services Security and Governance Solutions to Belgian Marketplace