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Signposts

July-August 2008

Signposts

It may be the holiday season but that doesn't mean there's been any let up in activities here at MWD. For those of you that aren't already aware, July saw the launch of the second of our Continuous Advisory Services, focusing on collaboration. You can find out more about the service here and sign-up for a free trial (and for our BPM service) here

July also saw another new collaborative effort from MWD. All four of us worked together on a report looking at Oracle's plans for BEA (more details below)

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Exposure
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Published reports

We published 1 new report this month:

Oracle's plans for BEA fusion – After the conclusion of its acquisition of BEA in April 2008, on July 1st Oracle delivered a comprehensive preview to all-comers of its plans for integrating the BEA organisation and products. We'll admit to being pessimistic about BEA's prognosis going into the Oracle acquisition, but Oracle's early communications highlight its understanding of the strengths of the BEA technology, as well as of BEA's market footprint. What's more, the company is also openly committing to support BEA customers' existing working relationships and arrangements, and has pledged not to force product migration on any customer. There is more that Oracle needs to do, of course, but this is a good start.

From the MWD blog

Here's a selection of our blog posts from July

Businesses aren't machines, and enterprise architecture can't make them so – Thoughts on the implications of change-induced entropy for enterprise architecture initiatives
Collaborative mind mapping – Collaborative mind mapping as a potential alternative to wikis

Exposure

Below is an overview of the stories that our commentary has appeared in over the past month. We don’t yet have full coverage of the places where our stories appear in the print media, but this should give you an idea of the kinds of topics we’re actively involved in researching.

IBM adds to software stable with Ilog buy – Neil (W-D)'s thoughts on IBM's acquisition of business rules specialist ILog featured in this ITPro story
Borland Announces Upcoming ALM Release – Bola's comments on software delivery and Borland's new BMS products were picked up in this Application Development Trends story
Borland Brings Management to ALM – They also appeared in this eWeek article
IT Business Edge: Relative Lack of Features Makes Microsoft’s Hyper-V Better Suited to SMBs – IT Business Edge featured Neil (M)'s insights on how organisations should be adopting Microsoft's new Hyper-V virtualisation offering
Microsoft to attack VMware from below – They also appeared in this IT Week article
Microsoft SOA strategy: A failure to communicate? – Neil (W-D)'s observations on Microsoft's SOA strategy appeared in this SearchSOA feature

Food for thought

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