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SOA's five benefits in one picture

In recent discussions with one customer, I ended up drawing a series of little pictures to try and summarise the five potential benefits that can come from pursuing SOA. It seemed to work for them, so I thought I’d reproduce it here and see what our readers think. In order to test the old adage [...]

Posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 by

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Microsoft announces bid for FAST Search

Microsoft today announced that it has offered to acquire Norwegian search vendor Fast Search and Transfer (FAST) for approximately $1.2 billion, or 19 Norwegian kroner per share. There are two interesting aspects to this. Firstly – assuming the acquisition goes ahead – the removal of FAST as an independent company will leave Autonomy to truly [...]

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