Application standardization
Nick Malick has an interesting (long) post up today on Inside Architecture describing a conceptual framework for standardizing line-of-busi...

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HP boosts SOA framework
First, an aside; do you think that I wind up putting up a bunch of posts about one company within a week because I somehow become attuned to...

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Microsoft SOA roadmap
Microsoft today announced a new, amorphous project entitled "Oslo" which encompasses the corporation's "Software + Services" roadmap for the c...

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SOA in a box
It's been taken more or less as an article of faith that you can't get SOA in a box, and that the vendors who have been trying to pa...

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What SOA needs to learn from Ruby On Rails
Convention over configuration. A while back I talked to lessconfig, based on the lesscode idea. What is the default config for SOA? Why don’t we try and solve the 95% before we move on to the edge cases? Big SOA with reg/rep and so on- who needs it? Who is using it? Remember ...

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RedMonk TV from IBM SOA Impact
Its not exactly live TV, but the content is online now- interviews with Ali Arsanjani (IBMs approach to business/IT service modeling and “World is...

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Web 2.0- which is really a Global SOA
“We are clearly moving from dynamic visual interfaces to dynamic non-visual services, all accessible over the internet. All of this is Web...

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links for 2007-06-19
Five Enterprise 2.0 Startups To Watch -- Web 2.0 I like WorkLight's model..and MindQuarry looks good and has solid funding. (tags: enter...

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On SOA: Why is Microsoft Pushing The Rock Uphill?
I wrote recently about IBM dominating the SOA market. But that’s SOA as defined through a largely top-down lens. Many of the analysts here at TechEd have fostered the frame. So I found it interesting...

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IBM: Dominating the SOA market
Its been a long time since IBM was so dominant in a market. According to Wintergreen Research IBM has an eye-popping 53% of the SOA tools market. I don’t know about Wintergreen̵...

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