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Tag Archives: SOA
links for 2007-11-15
ZapThink :: Research – Wanted: VP of SOA “To aid these efforts, therefore, ZapThink presents our take on the job description for your new VP of SOA.” (tags: soa, zapthink) Second Life: Different World, Same Stuff “A virtual press conference … Continue reading
SOA, healthcare, University of Florida, and IBM
A very nice story broke yesterday about work that IBM is doing with the University of Florida to enable patient medical devices to be treated as services. There have been several press write-ups: “IBM, University of Florida Team Up on … Continue reading
links for 2007-07-17
The Expanding OOXML Embarrassment The Kavi Standard » Blog Archive » Bad Process, Part Deux In the past few weeks, apparently, Microsoft and its allies have been stacking the V1 committee at INCITS. (tags: ooxml microsoft) heise open – Hintergrund … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source, Programming
Tagged Microsoft, ODF, OOXML, SOA, web services
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Interoperability Specifications Pledge
This morning IBM announced a broad patent pledge that covers over 150 of the core software interoperability standards. These standards had all been previously given royalty free licenses, but from a variety of sources at a variety of times. This … Continue reading
links for 2007-05-23
SOA IBM Shows Impact of SOA “Impact 2007 is IBM first customer event focusing on SOA, which analysts say is a $160 billion market opportunity. And IBM touts that the company has successfully delivered on more than 4,500 SOA engagements … Continue reading
SOA is not a game, or is it?
See the CNet article “IBM simulates business software in 3D game.” It begins: IBM on Monday introduced a three-dimensional video game that puts a businessperson in a virtual office with the task of constructing a more efficient company. The game, … Continue reading
Name 2 standards efforts that actually finished …
Here’s some good, positive move from OASIS: Kelvin Lawrence, co-chair of the Web Services Security Technical Committee, announced over in his blog that the TC did what it was supposed to do and so voted itself out of existence. He … Continue reading
Frontiers of Intellectual Property slide: “SOA accommodates both open and proprietary”
Another slide for discussion from my talk at the University of Texas School of Law: SOA accommodates both open and proprietary but only in the right places Service Oriented Architecture is the leading trend in building flexible, efficient, distributed computing … Continue reading
links for 2006-10-13
Office 2.0 Office 2.0 meets the enterprise | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com “The morning discussions at the Office 2.0 conference centered on bringing 2.0 (Web, Office, Enterprise, Lunch, Dinner, and my favorite, Work, etc.) into the mainstream of business … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Web 2.0
Tagged Google, Microsoft, Office 2.0, SOA, web services
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IBM SOA on YouTube (YouTooble?)
IBM has posted three videos up on YouTube related to our recent SOA news. They are: What is Service Oriented Architecture SOA? – Part 1 (the angle taken on this video is one I have never used, I must admit) … Continue reading
links for 2006-10-04
SOA IBM beefs up SOA business | Tech News on ZDNet “IBM is beefing up its software and services to capture interest in services-oriented architecture, a technology shift that IBM is intent to capitalize on.” (tags: soa webservices) IBM Broadens … Continue reading
Teach your children about open. Even better, show them.
I’ve been in Raleigh the last two days participating in the K-12 Open Technologies Summit at the William & Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University. It was quite intense but this wasn’t a group singalong … Continue reading
WebMethods is buying Infravio
According to CNET and others [time sensitive news search link], WebMethods is buying Infravio. I’ve been predicting a rollup in the web services/SOA space for years, but it is certainly happening more slowly than I expected. (Thanks to Debbie Moynihan … Continue reading
Interoperability and substitutability
One of the benefits of interoperability is substitutability: the ability to take one software application from one provider and put in its place another application from a possibly different provider. Open standards enable interoperability and hence substitutability. If I were … Continue reading
links for 2006-07-26
OSGi Patent Pledge eWeek: Group Pledges Free Patent Access to Speed OSGi Adoption “Five IT companies—including giants IBM, Nokia and Samsung—and the OSGi Alliance announced July 26 that they will pledge royalty-free access to patents they own in an effort … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source, Patents, Standards
Tagged ODF, SOA, web services
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links for 2006-07-03
ACM Queue – ASPs: The Integration Challenge – Tips for integrating with application service providers using Web services. “Tips for integrating with application service providers using Web services.” (tags: soa webservices) DesktopLinux.com: OpenOffice 2.0.3 available for download “OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 is … Continue reading
links for 2006-06-15
SOA / Web Services IBM launches SOA Business Catalog “IBM Corp has announced what it calls the IBM SOA Business Catalog, a collection of reusable IT services based on its own and its partners’ software.” (tags: soa) PRESS RELEASE: IBM’s … Continue reading
Posted in Music, News, Open Source
Tagged DRM, Guitar, Linux, SOA, Ubuntu, web services
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Podcast of “Open Standards vs. Open Source, Part 4: The SOA Connection” is available
The podcast for “Part 4: The SOA Connection” of my series “Open Standards vs. Open Source” is now available. Click on the above graphic to access the mp3 file.
Podcast of “Open Standards vs. Open Source, Part 3: Open Source” is available
The podcast for “Part 3: Open Source” of my series “Open Standards vs. Open Source” is now available. Click on the above graphic to access the mp3 file.
links for 2006-06-02
ODF A view of ODF from the other side ODF advice for hardcore MS Office users. (tags: odf microsoft) 3BOpenDoc Convert documents to and from OpenDocument format (tags: odf) A mockery of international standards – At The Whiteboard – ZDNet … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source
Tagged Eclipse, Linux, ODF, Red Hat, SOA, Ubuntu, WordPress
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Open Standards vs. Open Source series is complete
I just posted the fourth and final part, “The SOA Connection,” of the “Open Standards vs. Open Source” series. It took a while, but I finally got there. All the sections are now linked together. I’ve also put on my … Continue reading
Open Standards vs. Open Source, Part 4: The SOA Connection
Part 1: Standards Part 2: Software Part 3: Open Source Software Part 4: The SOA Connection In the beginning, there was one computer and it was big and slow and it filled an entire room. Eventually, there were many computers … Continue reading
links for 2006-05-24
SOA IBM Powers Up SOA Machines “IBM has taken some of its hardware and software technology and applied it to three appliances designed to secure and improve the performance of service-oriented architectures (SOA)” (tags: soa) IBM rechristens DataPower SOA appliances … Continue reading
links for 2006-05-12
Open Source OpenSUSE 10.1 arrives New version of a popular Linux distribution. (tags: linux) May the source be with you Demonstrates the previously unknown connection between open source and kung fu, at least Down Under. (tags: opensource) How To Buy … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source, Programming, Standards
Tagged Linux, ODF, Ruby, SOA
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links for 2006-05-08
ODF ODF has successful week, Microsoft watches Interesting discussion in comments about the plug-in for MS Office. (tags: odf) OOoCon 2006 CFP Via Simon Phipps, in case you are interested in an OpenOffice conference. Has an OSD/XML track. (tags: odf … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source
Tagged Linux, Microsoft, ODF, SOA, web services
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WS-I to start ‘RAMP’ profile work
This is what wasn’t quite approved last month due to some procedural wrangling. See Tom Glover’s blog for more information.
IBM SOA News
There was a bunch of SOA announcements from IBM today, so here are a few pointers to reading material. I’ll update this as more is published. Press Release: “New IBM Software and Services Help Drive Customer Adoption of Service Oriented … Continue reading
Apache Tuscany
I’m not sure many people have heard of this, so I thought I would provide a pointer to the Tuscany project now under incubation in Apache. Here’s a blurb from the description there: Apache Tuscany provides runtime capabilities for applications … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Programming, Standards
Tagged Apache, C++, Java, SOA, web services
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Unfortunate news out of WS-I
See Tom Glover’s entry: “WS-I ponders asynchrony and reliability (day 2)”
Real time RAMP
Tom Glover is providing a nearly real time exposition of the work going on in the Web Services Interoperability Organization this week in Salt Lake City, Utah. One of the big topic is RAMP, or the Reliable Asynchronous Messaging Protocol … Continue reading
