Martin LaMonica over at CNET reports on the planned co-operation between three open source projects focussed on the integration space: ServiceMix, ObjectWeb Consortium’s Celtix and WSO2’s Synapse. Both ServiceMix and Celtix are based on the JBI (Java Business Integration) specification with the objective of providing open source alternatives to ESB products from the likes of [...]
Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 by adminEarlier this month, my partner commented on the bogus use of the BP in BPEL. Today, I stumbled across the nattily titled ‘BPEL Tracking for Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance’ (TMTP) over at IBM’s alphaWorks emerging technologies site. Whilst I don’t question the potential value of correlating the progress of web services-based BPEL orchestrations with [...]
Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 by adminHere at MWD we believe that IT-business alignment, at its heart, is an approach which enables IT organisations to collaborate with business decision-makers to ensure that IT investment and IT service delivery reflect business priorities; and where business and IT change are informed by the capabilities and limitations of each other. Central to this approach [...]
Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 by adminAlmost a year to the day after Microsoft announced that it would be pulled from the initial releases of the Longhorn client (whoops Vista) and server, WinFS has – to the surprise of many, myself included – reared its head again. It was widely anticipated that the “new relational file system for Windows” would not [...]
Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 by adminMicrosoft yesterday announced the availability of its Presence Controls for Microsoft Office Communicator, to enable enterprises and partners to integrate presence and Office Communicator’s instant messaging capabilities into applications using Visual Studio. The company is also providing some code samples for role-based presence and instant messaging and for team-based alerting (through integration with Active Directory). [...]
Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 by adminIt’s good to see other commentators looking beyond today’s SOA “sound and fury”, and pointing out that serious SOA initiatives will be very difficult to implement without real consideration of managing service metadata throughout the service lifecycle. “If you can’t see it, you can’t manage it”. Building quality systems efficiently – no matter what the [...]
Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2005 by adminYesterday BEA announced its intention to acquire Plumtree, the last of the significant pure-play portal vendors, for approximately $200 million. BEA claims that the acquisition makes sense for a number of reasons. First, Plumtree adds collaborative portal capabilities to complement the transactional capabilities of its WebLogic Portal. Second, it adds .NET support. Third, it brings [...]
Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 by adminA number of news sites (here for example) are reporting Sun’s latest open source foray, with the announcement of that it plans to release it’s digital rights management (DRM) project, DReaM under Sun’s open source Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) as the foundation for what it refers to as the ‘Open Media Commons’. Jonathan [...]
Posted on Monday, August 22, 2005 by adminIrving W-B is always worth a quick read as his longevity in the industry and his (enviable) position give him a nice abstract perspective on trends. He recently blogged on “The Economic and Social Foundations of Collaborative Innovation”, and referenced work by Yochai Benkler (Prof of Law at Yale Law School).Prof Benkler has been looking [...]
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 by adminFollowing my post earlier today about Liberty Alliance interoperability conformance testing and a new Apache incubation subproject focussed on implementation of a variety of federated identity standards, there’s more good news to report. Today I discovered that Ping Identity has announced that it has made the source code available for its InfoCard STS (Secure Token [...]
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