Mark Scrimshire blogged about attending a Ray Valdes presentation on Portals and Mashups (http://ekive.blogspot.com/2008/03/portals-and-mashups-putting-powr-of-soa.html).  The article nicely explains how Web 2.0 and SOA technologies combine to produce a new generation of portals, fed by information culled from throughout the enterprise.  The separation of concerns between Web 2.0 an

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I attended EclipseCon 2008 this week in Santa Clara, CA.  Wednesday's keynote speaker was Sam Ramji from Microsoft, talking about Microsoft's growing participation in Open Source initiatives. He began by confirming rumors that a new initiative, "Supernova", would have Microsoft purchasing the Eclipse organization, and acquiring all intellectual property of Eclipse. A couple

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I attended various different tracks today with a variety of topics including standards, mashups and specific toolkits.

There are a dizzying array of tools and toolkits for implementing AJAX applications with one estimate of over 200 separate and often overlapping toolkits, many of which are open source.  These include full frameworks, gadgets, widgets and server & client side i

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The second day (Wed) at AJAX World East 2008, had several interesting presentations, with more focus on actal AJAX usage and techniques.

The keynote by Douglas Crockfor

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I have spoken with some IT industry analysts recently on the question:  "Will a recession be good for open source?"  I think that orgainzations and IT managers will turn to the favorable economics of open source to get things done when budgets are tight; so yes, recession may be good for open source adoption.  

On a similar theme, will recession be good or bad fo

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Service development is about to explode in the enterprise, but these are not the custom-crafted, high value, reusable services you might see cruising the pristine avenue of your company’s SOA center of excellence. No, this will be massive. Instead of nicely architected brownstones with clean lines and aesthetic appeal, you’ll brush with small, hastily constructed, one-off services as

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While working at MCI in 1995, I was exposed for the first time to the benefits of service orientation. I was responsible for the order entry application for 1-800-MUSIC-NOW (which turned out to be a marketing flop), in which call center agents needed to process credit card payments for music CDs. Fortunately for me, MCI was alread

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I have used the term "oxymoron " to describe the idea of a single-vendor "SOA Platform" in prior posts. Loosely-coupled and standards-based should mean that various components can come from anywhere, allowing the designer to mix and match their favorites and change them easily as they find new and better features and ca

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Gartner released a set of ten key predictions last week. In their press release, they admonish, "...executives and IT professionals need to take action in 2008. The full impact of these trends may not appear this year, but executives need to act now so that they can exploit the trends for their competitive advantage."

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As you might guess, we are often asked about how XAware is different from Talend, and other ETL providers. After all, both companies are referred to as "Open Source Data Integration". So, these products must be competitve, right? Well, not really.

I know this can get pretty confusing. How can these both be data integration software and yet not really be c

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