Tag: soa

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...

With enhancements in the OpenEdge 10.1x release family, ABL (Advanced Business Language) is being extended with standard formal object-oriented (OO) functionality: objects, classes, methods, polymorphism, inheritance, delegation, statics, properties, strong typing, and more.

A big...

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...

What if you could gain better visibility of business systems and services across your SOA infrastructure? At Progress Software, we believe that you can achieve the promise of SOA without compromising your architecture or getting locked into a...

John Soat wrote a summary of one of the panel discussions at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.  One of the interesting questions raised was whether the CIO should move from being a architect of...

Wow, Ron Schmelzer reacted, how should I put it, somewhat unkindly to my last post.  Yes Ron, I did read the whole article (and Nick Gall's too!)

I guess my point was probably too...

In a previous podcast Ken Rugg, VP of Products for ObjectStore at Progress Software, defined what a common model is and how it improves SOA infrastructure initiatives. In this 5...