Yesterday, the Liberty Alliance Project announced that products from 8 organisations – the Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute, Ericsson, Novell, Oracle, Reactivity, Sun Microsystems, Symlabs and Trustgenix – had successfully completed interoperability testing based on Liberty’s Identity Web Services (ID-WSF) version 1.1 and OASIS’ Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) version 2.0 specifications. This is an [...]
Posted on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 by adminToday, OASIS announced the election of John Jackson of General Motors to its Board of Directors. This is great news. For too long vendors have played the standards card as a means of allaying customers’ and more importantly (for the vendors at least) potential customers’ concerns about the threat of lock in, but have left [...]
Posted on Monday, August 8, 2005 by adminI’ve long been a believer that even though BPEL has “Business Process” as part of its full name, it’s really a declarative design and execution language for composing web services and application functionality and nothing more. It’s for that reason that any time we write something that refers to technology vendors’ integration offerings, if BPEL [...]
Posted on Friday, August 5, 2005 by adminTo anyone who’s interested – I’ve updated our blog template so that we now support trackbacks (about time). Blogger doesn’t support ‘em – so our trackback facility comes to you courtesy of some nifty Javascript integration with Haloscan. Lovely!
Posted on Thursday, August 4, 2005 by adminEven cynical organs like The Register have picked up on Sun’s deal with GM (announced here last week) and reported it as a milestone in the company’s bid to become seen as a mainstream enterprise software infrastructure player. But is there less to this than meets the eye? Schwartz often talks about Sun’s move towards [...]
Posted on Thursday, August 4, 2005 by admin
