The Impact of a Googless JavaOne

The Jason Bloomberg quote on IBM’s relationship to Sun and Java could almost be applied to what many of us hope happens today with Oracle, Google, and Java.

ماذا تفعل إذا تم إلغاء مبادرة البنية الموجهة للخدمات الخاصة بك

Arabic translation of “What To Do When your SOA Initiative Gets Cancelled“

هل هناك مستقبل للتطبيقات البرمجية المؤسسية

هل هناك مستقبل للتطبيقات البرمجية المؤسسية ترجمة: وائل الخواص – 7 ديسمبر 2009 يمكنك قراءة المقال من خلال هذا الرابط غالبا ما يتبادر الحديث ضمناً عن دور ومستقبل التطبيقات البرمجية المؤسسية عند الحديث عن البنية القائمة على الخدمات (SOA). ففى الواقع فإن زاب ثينك (ZapThink) تتحدث منذ …

What To Do When your SOA Initiative Gets Cancelled

We at ZapThink are an idealistic and optimistic bunch. We tend to see the positive side of well thought-out IT initiatives and believe that when rational planning meets incremental expenditure that provides short-term returns, all is well and companies can sail smoothly ahead. However, we realize that is not the …

Private Clouds: A Valuable Concept or Buzzword Bingo?

Every once in a while, the machinery of marketing goes haywire and starts labeling all manner of things with inappropriate terminology. The general rationale of most marketers is that if there’s a band wagon rolling along somewhere and gaining some traction in the marketplace, it’s best to jump on it …

Oracle’s Fusion 11g lays groundwork for ERP platform

“This integration was an enormous undertaking, Oracle has proven over the years to be able to rise to occasions like this and deliver relatively high-quality software,” said Jason Bloomberg, a managing partner at ZapThink.

“This offering is essentially traditional middleware: Hook everything in the enterprise up to it and it will take care of the rest of the integration story for you,” Bloomberg said.

“What’s missing is any sort of realization that enterprise customers have already been through the SOA ring of fire and are no longer looking to middleware to drive the business value that IT should provide. Oracle’s real challenge is in telling the appropriate virtualization and abstraction story.”

Read more at: SD Times

Progress Software Names New CEO

Overall, Progress “has quite a few good assets in the SOA and integration markets,” said ZapThink analyst Ronald Schmelzer via e-mail. “However, they are in many ways a second-tier vendor competing against the much more entrenched incumbents: IBM, Oracle, Software AG, HP and Microsoft.”

Market consolidation, such as Oracle’s purchase of BEA, has further cemented the position of the incumbents, Schmelzer added.

But this in turn “makes Progress continue to be a good second choice when end-users aren’t first considering their existing incumbent vendors,” he said. “Without Progress itself getting acquired by one of the ‘big guys,’ I don’t see how this dynamic will change.”

Read more at: PC World

SOA联手“开放源代码”改写IT规划方程式

众多的企业和机构还在睡眼惺忪之际，业内的领头羊和冒险者早已张开了激情的臂膀来拥抱这个先机了。诱惑正在引发商机。IT行业分析公司 Gartner 认为SOA将成为创建和交付软件的主导框架，同时预测到2010年时，应用软件收入增长的80%将来自基于SOA的方案，另据美国专注于软件应用领域的咨询公司Zapthink的报告，全球SOA的市场规模将会由2005年的44亿美元猛增到2010年的430亿美元，5年的时间里将有近10倍的增长。另一方面，开源社区也越来越活跃，IBM、Oracle、AMD、BEA等都在支持和实施一些开源计划。很明显，开源不光针对商用，SOA也不光是针对系统集成，这两二因素正酝酿IT的一场技术机制与商业模式的变革。同时这也构成了新的行业“洗牌”动因。

Read more at: www.itxinwen.com

SOA modeling language readied

An analyst lauded SoaML for not being too centered on Web services, which has sometimes been considered synonymous with SOA.

“While it would be more accurate to call this a service modeling and design language (because SOA modeling language doesn’t have particular meaning), it is good that they are not overly committing their language to Web services,” said Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink. “I think by now, we all realize that SOA and Web services are not at all the same thing. In this regard, I think the specification will be another step in the path to helping companies realize the important of modeling their architecture separate from modeling the underlying technology.”

Read more at: InfoWorld

New Group Promotes Web Services Interoperability

Ronald Schmelzer, an analyst with ZapThink, said he wonders why the WS-I wasn’t enough. Said Schmelzer:

In some ways the efforts of the WSTF is redundant with the efforts of the WS-I, but then again, the WS-I hasn’t been doing much in the past few years. In fact, it’s pretty notable how absent the WS-I has been from SOA efforts in the past few years. The fact that we would need a new organization to focus on interoperability scenarios says much about the inability of the industry to come to any long-term agreement on these things. Also, the fact that it is always the same group of vendors rearranging the deck chairs on the interoperability question really makes one wonder whether the vendors will ever be able to champion the task of interoperability on their own. Perhaps a consortium of the largest IT buying end users should be in charge instead?

Read more at: eWeek