There has been a lot of press over the last year about cloud computing.  Web-based applications like Salesforce.com have demonstrated the utility and cost-effectiveness of cloud-based resources.  Integration vendors have also begun providing products designed for the cloud.  Like the few other cloud-based integration products, the XAware engine can be installed and run in a cloud

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Today, XAware, Inc. agreed to be acquired by Sparxent , a world-wide provider of technology and business solutions to mid-market companies.  What does this mean to the XAware community and the xaware.org project?  At this point, I can tell you that no major course changes are on the horizon.  The friendly XAware people you se

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A recent front-page article by Jeff Feinman in SD Times, "Bottom Line: Software had better pay", warns that economic conditions mandate any funded project better begin paying back immediately.  Supply chain management and automation improvements are cited as types of projects that continue to be funded during this econo

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Over the last week I have been working on enhancing the Salesforce BizComp to handle the return from a query that involves JOINS.  Unlike an RDBMS, Salesforce does not allow JOINS on between any two objects, they must have a pre-established relationship.  Relationships in Salesforce are heirarchical, so there is always a parent which can have many children, but the children only have one

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Anne Thomas Manes’ recent article proclaiming the death of SOA has started a firestorm across many SOA and IT-related blogs and forums.  I wrote about it here .  In the post, Anne refers to the severe disillusionment some feel towards the over-hyped term, “SOA”, and proposes we drop the term altogether and simply refer to the co

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Burton Group analyst and SOA guru Anne Thomas Manes recently blogged that “SOA is Dead ”, referring to the disillusionment and even disgust some feel towards the over-hyped term.  But she was referring just to the term SOA, not the concept itself.  On the contrary, service orientatio

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In these days of recession and shrinking IT budgets, development groups are forced to do more with less.  This appears to be an opportunity for growth for Open Source projects, as companies find it difficult to purchase products, or even expand use of products they currently own.  Open source products are available to assist in impleme

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This fall’s version of SOAWorld ran November 19-21.  I attended all three days, and presented a session on creating and managing data services for both SOA and RIA environments.  The show was a combined conference that also included the named conferences Cloud Computing World, Virtualization World, and Data Services World.&

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At SOAWorld in San Jose last week, I attended a session by Michael Rowley of Active Endpoints, covering Complex Event Processing (CEP), another TLA (three letter acronym) that is getting some press these days.  This was my first real exposure to CEP, so I’d like to briefly share my thoughts on it for others not familiar with it. 

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I have been spending way too much time lately studying the stock market, and I am sure that I am not alone.  After a debate with a friend about the possible future market directions, I put this chart together to show what is possible - if maybe unlikely.  I thought others might find it interesting, so am sharing it here.  What is shows is that there were six market rallies of mor

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