DataDirect Technologies, an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), today announced that an independent report from ZapThink on DataDirect XQueryTM version 2.0 concludes that the performance challenges imposed by very large XML messages potentially threatens the viability of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations, and that DataDirect XQuery version 2.0 is robust enough to overcome these challenges when working with such messages.
 
The new study entitled “DataDirect XQuery 2.0, Enabling XQuery for Very Large Messages,” was produced by ZapThink, a leading IT research and advisory firm specializing in XML, Web Services and Service Orientation.  “As companies seek to increasingly make use of secure, reliable, process-driven and loosely coupled SOA implementations, they will quickly become aware of the performance penalty that inefficient usage of the XML format imposes,” said Jason Bloomberg, ZapThink senior analyst.  “DataDirect XQuery version 2.0 addresses the XML reporting problem of how to provide business visibility into large quantities of XML data in a flexible manner worthy of SOA.”

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