Tag: soa

If you were listening to the webinar I gave a few days ago, you probably remember the phone system going haywire with feedback (don't worry, if you listen to the recording we're posting, this will have been edited out).

One of the topics I was talking about right at the time the feedback...

Vincent Partington recently wrote on his blog "before you start writing your own services and your own ESB, have a look at what's available." Vincent point out the challenges of migrating from a home-brew ESBs and recommends against a "not invented here" attitude....

Not long ago I could rely on a variety of free Web services to fetch the semi-live quotes of my preferred stock tickers. Unfortunately, one by one all those Web services have either disappeared or started requiring a subscription... and for writing a few demos now and then, the subscription model...

The Risks, Strategies and Payoff: SOA Runtime Governance
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 11:00 am EST
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Cut through all of the confusion around SOA governance to learn the ins-and-outs of the two key aspects of SOA runtime governance:...

Whatever disaster occurs next, there is always someone able to turn it into an opportunity.  Look no further than the last dip in the economy and the associated Enron scandal.  Here was a company that lost millions of dollars overnight, causing distress to investors and employees...

If if haven't had a chance to read the interview by Jeremy Geelan, Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events, take a moment to read it.

Middleware is one of the fastest growing segments of the software...

I read a blog posting from the other day by a frustrated software as a service (SaaS) vendor venting that:

• They need rapid release cycles... but,
• They can't find all issues in their pre-production...

Are toasters and vacuum cleaners ultimate examples of commodities? Of course!, right? Well, think again.

A few months back I read ‘The Myth of Commoditization’ by Michael Schrage, an article in the ‘MIT Sloan Management...

Tony Baer reported a recent IBM event where Steve Mills talked about how the next stage for SOA was to add ACID reliability and fault tolerance to it.  Am I the only one that doesn't understand this?

If IBM really means ACID (as in formal database-type transactions), then maybe they...