I took part in a panel session during the inaugural Oracle Enterprise Architects Club in London at the back end of last week, which focused on SOA. The Club is part of a wave of initiatives from the big IT vendors to get more engaged with that elusive group – "architects". This particular forum is [...]
Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 by adminOn the day of the deadline originally imposed (Microsoft received a one month extension yesterday) in December’s Statement of Objections from the European Commission concerning the usefulness of the technical documentation Microsoft had provided to help licensees of its Work Group Server Protocol Program (WSPP), the company announced that it is releasing the source code [...]
Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 by adminProgress Software today announced that it has agreed to acquire privately-held Actional for $32 million. Actional is one of the few pure-play web services management vendors left standing, with the likes of Adjoin, Confluent and Talking Blocks (amongst others) having been acquired by the major infrastructure and enterprise management vendors (CA, Oracle via Oblix and [...]
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 by adminThis will probably be my most buzzword-filled blog post title of the year! On Jan 10 IBM announced that in collaboration with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and the global open source software development community, it is initiating three projects to "improve patent quality": the creation of an Open Patent Review process, which [...]
Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 by adminAt around this time, it seems to be pretty much mandatory for IT analyst firms to offer predictions for the coming year. Although at MWD we like to try and do things a little differently, we couldn’t stop ourselves. So below is our take on some of the trends, topics and technologies that we think [...]
Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 by adminSo Mercury has announced its acquisition of “SOA governance” tools player Systinet for $105 million cash. I can’t say I’m surprised that Systinet has been snapped up by someone: the area where it (and others) play is a cornerstone technology area if service-oriented software propositions are going to really work in the enterprise, and it’s [...]
Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 by admin
