Back in the 90s I was on a big project to standardize enterprise software. We wrote a few papers about it, and a chapter in a book. We often used the 'Henry Ford' analogy, which relates to the impact standards for interchangable parts had on hard goods manufacturing. The Henry Ford ana

Rogue Wave Software introduced RogueWave HydraExpress. HydraExpress provides a framework for developing and hosting high performance C++ Web Services to help developers modernize existing C++ applications. HydraExpress is the next generation of Rogue Wave LEIF. Developers can use Hydra

'Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.' ? Albert Einstein - From the mainframe to the Internet age software projects have gotten delivered or deployed in increments. A whole project is never del

Financial institutions are pushing the envelope and require more processing capability, but without requiring exponential increase in hardware costs. The growth of extreme transaction processing (XTP) in areas such as fraud detection, risk computation, and stock trade resolution are pu

Somewhere out there an ode is being written to HP - and some lady investor is explaining to her husband about her abiding crush on HP's CEO, the 'Great Deliverer' - after HP dropped better-than-expected first-quarter results on Wall Street Tuesday and upped its fiscal 2008 forecast des

Vague, undocumented and double or triple meaning definitions are not uncommon to the IT world but I must say that SOA beats them all. If there is a commonly accepted definition I haven't found it yet, the ones I have encountered so far not only differ on what SOA is but they do it on s

IONA Technologies announced that Passenger has selected IONA to support its deployment of Apache ActiveMQ, the Open Source JMS-compliant messaging and integration platform. Passenger will deploy IONA's FUSE Message Broker, which is IONA's version of ActiveMQ, to deliver service-oriente

Esker announced its Esker DeliveryWare 4.0 - Esker's Document Process Automation solution - has achieved SAP Certified Integration for SAP's new Enterprise Services-based (enterprise SOA) interface, thus achieving 'Powered by SAP NetWeaver' status. Esker is among the few vendors to com

VeNotion Technologies announced that Software AG and VeNotion Technologies signed an agreement to integrate Software AG's SOA technology with VeNotion's SOA Business ServiceWare. VeNotion provides a Business ServiceWare software solution which consists of an automated business services

Layer 7 Technologies announced the availability of its SecureSpan Mainframe SOA Gateway. The appliance is used to expose mission-critical mainframe applications, business logic and data as a composite business service without costly coding or porting efforts. The SecureSpan Mainframe S

IBM announced that it is collaborating with nine business partners to help healthcare providers, clinics and hospitals improve productivity, increase quality and reduce costs through the use of service oriented architecture (SOA). These partners are all working to develop their latest

The advent of SOA and standard-base Web services together with Internet based delivery models has provided the essential base for facilitating new software platform innovations. One of these innovations is a breakthrough software componentization technique that we have coined Service O

Over the last several years, integration technology has been growing by leaps and bounds. The XML/REST/Web Services/SOA revolution has driven engineers and software firms to create an abundance of protocols, adaptors, transports, containers, standards, best practices...you name it. The

The lines between embedded and enterprise computing are blurring. As embedded devices become more and more networked, they form a perimeter at the edge of our enterprise data centers and a rich source of real-time, real-world information. These newcomers to the enterprise are coming of

OASIS president and CEO Patrick Gannon suddenly and precipitously up and resigned last Wednesday after six years on the job and nobody will say why - which suggests, as all conspiracy theorists know, that there must be something interesting under all that silence. It also means that OA

Enterprise mashups - the convergence of Web 2.0 mashups and service-oriented architecture (SOA) - can create a world of opportunities for enterprises to come up with internal and customer-facing self-service, composite and 'situational' applications. These applications can be created j

I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning: 'Because they can only give you answers.' Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would share with you what some of t

IBM captured 34.2% revenue share in the fourth quarter of 2007, and 31.1% revenue share for the full year of 2007. The report by Gartner Dataquest, 'Servers Quarterly Statistics Worldwide,' for Q4, 2007, found that IBM was also the fastest growing UNIX vendor in 2007, growing 9% year-t

and Service Division that will include the four-year-old start-up EMC just agreed to buy off of him. EMC is paying cash for the Seattle-based Pi Corporation and its 100 engineers. EMC didn?t say how much but Pi was founded using Warburg-Pincus ($$$) money and EMC says the acquisition w

Citect announced the release of version 3.2 of its Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Ampla; a scalable MES solution that drives the effective planning, operation and improvement of production operations. Ampla V3.2 provides new features to support Service Oriented Architectures (SO

Progress Software has upgraded its SOA-based semantic integrator for communications service providers. Progress said DataXtend Semantic Integrator 8.3 will enable service providers to synchronize distributed data with change data capture (CDC) functionality to determine when data has c

Oracle holds the gold standard for database technology and applications in enterprises throughout the world: The company is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest independent software company. Oracle technology can be found i

SOA Software announced that it has certified the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform as a Governed Service Platform. Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms won't compromise the fidelity of the governance systems and structures de

SeeWhy Software announced an expansion of its relationship with JBoss through tighter integration of SeeWhy with the JBoss service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform. In addition, SeeWhy has become a JBoss Advanced Partner. Following demand from the JBoss community, SeeWhy has been w

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- 'The Network is the Computer' -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership.

TIBCO announced the general availability of TIBCO ActiveMatrix 2.0 featuring expanded capabilities for integration, composite application development and governance under a single platform to better manage heterogeneous service oriented architectures (SOAs). This latest release enables

Microsoft today attempted to exorcize the interoperability bogeymen that have haunted it since it was first discovered to be using secret APIs 20 years ago, bogeymen that now quote European antitrust law at it and carry writs from the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. To avoid fur

Depending on your perspective, SOA and virtualization are either synergistic or threaten increased complexity. This session will explain how implementing the right network architecture can make the most of both, promoting agility and reducing complexity. 'Service virtualization' takes

Alcatel-Lucent announced a product integration that brings together the HP SOA Systinet governance software with Alcatel-Lucent's OmniAccess 8550 Web Services Gateway. The solution provides the ability for enterprises to ensure that information access policy designed into their service

HCL Technologies announced an expanded global services partnership with SAP that underscores SAP's focus on extending its industry lead in ecosystem innovation, and HCL's focus on delivering value to its customers through collaboration. HCL's new global services partnership with SAP is

'By increasing the openness of our products, we will provide developers additional opportunity to innovate and deliver value for customers,' said Ray Ozzie, Microsoft chief software architect, as Microsoft this morning announced the implementation of four new interoperability principle

In my many years of programming, almost 20 years now, I have used countless integrated development environments (IDEs). I have used everything from a simple text editor all the way up to the high-end IDEs that Sybase, IBM, and Oracle use. More recently I have come to embrace the open s

Traditional business models have focused on a process and interaction model that hasn't changed for more than 100 years. This traditional model involves a hierarchical approach where there is an expectation that all good ideas come from the leaders at the top of the organization. This

What drives a technology CEO or CTO to success, in today's constantly changing technology ecosystem? We look at the question through the lens of the many interviews and articles we have published at SYS-CON.com which deal, sometimes only in passing, with exactly this issue. Executives

If you had to pick a single business benefit that service-oriented architecture (SOA) can provide, it is the ability to respond to change. Change occurs continually in a multitude of places that affect the enterprise: the market, the supply chain, strategic processes, regulations, and

I am glad to introduce you to a new set of resources to help surface scalability and performance issues in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA.) The SOA Knowledge and Performance Kit is a free open-source resource to show you what it really takes to build services using today's leading

Traditionally DOM or SAX-based enterprise applications have to repeat CPU-intensive XML parsing when accessing the same documents multiple times. VTD-XML 2.0 introduces a simple general-purpose XML index called VTD+XML (http://vt d-xml.sourceforge.net/per sistence.html) that eliminates t

WSO2 is the ambitious two-year-old Sri Lanka start-up that's writing a complete open source middleware platform for Web Services on Intel Capital's nickel expecting it to become the standard. It says it's the same as a comprehensive SOA platform. It is looking ahead to a Mashup Server

Bungee Labs yesterday released a new version of the Bungee Connect web application development and hosting platform and opened its Public Beta program to all developers. Bungee also released WideLens, a comprehensive reference application for Bungee Connect, solving real-world calendar

Progress Software announced the availability of Progress DataXtend Semantic Integrator (SI) 8.3. This release enables Communication Service Providers to more effectively synchronize their disparate and distributed data with new change data capture (CDC) functionality, which determines