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As you have probably read in today's press and blogs, Progress is going to acquire IONA.  This is great news and I welcome my new colleagues from IONA.  But what does this mean to our combined customers?  While I am...

Technology blogs and online communities have been chattering about event-driven SOA and many of our customers have been asking "How does event-driven SOA differ from CEP?" In this podcast, Giles Nelson gives an...

Yeah... so I'm a little late posting my observations from Management World 2008, but later is better than never.  My marketing team has been trying to get me to blog about it so instead of waiting, they dragged me into the...

Progress Software sponsored webinar will examine the impact of event driven SOA

Hub Vandervoort, CTO of SOA Infrastructure products, will participate in an InfoWorld webinar titled; "Faster than a speeding bullet—are you ready for event-driven business?" on June19th, 2008....

Modern SOA infrastructure is analogous to our global telecommunications infrastructure. These days, just about everybody (my teenage daughter included) has a cell phone that they can use to connect to someone in Berlin, Bangkok or Beijing. The infrastructure is highly reliable,...

An enterprise service bus (ESB) provides you with interoperability across many distributed, heterogeneous services and systems. Watch the video below and hear Hub Vandervoort tell you more about the power of an ESB and the industry's 1st ESB -...

Today, I write like my colleagues. No humor. No funny title. No family stories. Just boring technology evangelizing.

I apologize.

But, I have something to say, and it can't wait until I think of a funny, but related personal story.

People often ask about policy portability. In...

By now we all know that service-oriented architecture (SOA) isn’t something you buy out of the box. It’s also a long term initiative that involves planning, implementation and fine-tuning. But when budgets are tight, many companies may slow down or even stop their SOA initiatives. Listen to the...

Anyone ever see David Letterman's stupid pet tricks? I think we should have a tech show called stupid IT tricks. I recently heard that one CIO's strategy for meeting user requirements...