A look at .NET 3.5 - podcast
Not a lot of attention has focused yet on something brewing known as .NET 3.5. That is probably not a bad thing. The hyperbole surrounding .NET 3.0 was extensive but, in the view of many, misplaced. Like .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5 is evolutionary. Microsoft's Thom Robbins says new technology to highlight in NET 3.5 includes AJAX, LINQ for both C# and VB, as well as tooling enhancements intended to ease the task of building WPF, WF and WCF apps.
Leapin’ Linthicum!
Anyone who has seen Dave Linthicum in action at IT conferences knows this guy is one ball of fire. He entertains, cajoles, incites, and educates on the perils and possibilities of SOA and integration.
StrikeIron Names David Linthicum as New CEO
SOA visionary to drive continued growth for the next generation of SOA and Web 2.0 leadership
Layer 7 Technologies and Novell Team to Provide Identity Driven Security for XML Web Services
Joint Go to Market Offering to Provide Best of Breed Web Services Security
The Scary Costs of SOA May Hinder Adoption
“We are close to the point where, as an architect, you need to justify why you would NOT use SOA for the integration portion of a project,” wrote an enthusiastic commenter, Kirstan Vandersluis, of Xaware.
Hundreds of millions 'to be wasted' on SOA
Analyst house AMR Research found that while SOA spending is on the rise nearly everywhere, a lack of clarity about its benefits makes IT's long-term commitment to the model iffy.
Is SOA still of value if nothing gets reused? How about if everything gets reused?
Ask many experts, and the answer will be a straightforward, yes, SOA will deliver value to the business in multiple ways beyond reuse of services.
Amazon's SimpleDB
The goal is a durable, flexible datastore at a cheap price: $0.14 per machine house, $0.10/Gb into the cloud and $0.18/Gb out.
StrikeIron Offers Gale Data Enrichment on Salesforce.com’s AppExchange
In-depth financial and corporate information on hundreds of thousands of companies can now be integrated directly into sales leads for more informed selling.
Layer 7 Technologies Introduces Drop-In Solution for Mainframe SOA Enablement, Interoperability and Governance
New Hardware-Accelerated Appliance Incorporates Mainframe Applications into SOA for Highly Secure Performance