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Mobility and SOA – A Technology Perspective
Mobility is the desire to both be able to access information and applications no matter the location and no matter the device or technology used to access that information. In the past, mobility represented yet another challenge for IT. However, in the Service-oriented context, Mobility is actually an aspect of how a proper SOA will work. Indeed, Mobility represents a new set of requirements for Service Consumption as well as a new class of Service providers.
This presentation outlines the technical considerations for what Mobility is and how it relates to SOA, and what the business needs to think about in linking these two concepts together. This includes a discussion of Ajax, Service Consumption approahces, and other key technology issues. This was presented at the SCO World conference in Las Vegas on August 8, 2006.
Noted Wireless and Service Oriented Architechure Analysts to Address SCO Forum 2006 Atendees
Bill Hughes, In-Stat, and Ronald Schmelzer, ZapThink, to Share Insights During Keynote and Breakout Sessions. SCO to Also Person
Ronald Schmelzer, founder and senior analyst for ZapThink, an IT advisory and analysis firm for XML, web services and service orientation, will also provide training and instruction around Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and the mobile and wireless market during two special sessions at SCO Forum 2006. In addition, SCO has created a special tribute to Doug Michels, the “Father of Forum,” where he will be awarded the “UNIX Lifetime Achievement” award for his leadership and accomplishments with UNIX on Intel.
“We are pleased to have Mr. Hughes and Mr. Schmelzer keynote at our conference as they are both experts in their respective fields and can give helpful insight into these growing markets. We are also honored to have Doug Michels join us at this year’s SCO Forum. As the “Father of Forum,” he was instrumental in making UNIX widely adopted and successful on the Intel platform with SCO’s UNIX technology.”
Read more at: SYS-ConThe year ahead … in technology
Professional services companies are gearing up for a significant year in Web services, said Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink, a market research firm focusing on Web services. He said consultants and integrators are increasing their skills to build Web services and service-oriented architectures.
Read more at: Federal Computer WeekSCO Delivers SCOx Web Services Substrate (WSS) in New UnixWare 7.1.4
“Although the Web Services market is still emerging, many companies today
are finding substantial business value in their Web Services initiatives, both
in terms of reduced cost and increased agility,” said Jason Bloomberg, Senior
Analyst at ZapThink. “SCO understands the potential of this market and how
Web Services technologies can help companies solve a range of application and
legacy integration problems. The company is making solid moves to roll out
its innovative Web Services-based products like the SCOx Web Services
Substrate to its SCO UNIX customers and resellers.”
SCO’s Game Face
“Although the Web Services market is still emerging, many companies today are finding substantial business value in their Web Services initiatives, both in terms of reduced cost and increased agility,” said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at ZapThink, in a statement. “SCO understands the potential of this market and how Web Services technologies can help companies solve a range of application and legacy integration problems. The company is making solid moves to roll out its innovative Web Services-based products like the SCOx Web Services Substrate to its SCO UNIX customers and resellers.”
Read more at: internetnews.comZapThink: Client-side Web Technologies Inadequate to Meet Evolving Needs of Web Services
ZapThink: Client-side Web Technologies Inadequate to Meet Evolving Needs of Web Services
New Class of Rich and Smart Clients Evolving to Solve Next-Generation Computing Needs
WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 3, 2004–The Internet and Web have provided immense scalability and manageability benefits to computer users for a decade now, but at a price – poor support for rich interactivity. Now, companies are increasingly demanding a rich set user experience capabilities that include visual interactivity elements and instant access to information, interaction with distributed and remote applications, and integration with local desktop applications. ZapThink concludes in its report entitled “Rich and Smart Clients for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs)” that today’s Web technologies are wholly inadequate to meet the needs of emerging standards-based, loosely coupled, distributed applications.
“Simply put, today’s corporate portals must move beyond Web-based thin client technologies,” said Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst with ZapThink. “Rather, companies must leverage the power of Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures to offer rich clients that provide deep interactivity, yet retain the scalability and manageability benefits that browsers provide.”
ZapThink’s report analyzes a new class of rich client vendor offering and several approaches to providing rich clients that in part rely upon SOAs to provide the optimal combination of rich user interaction and low cost of ownership through standards-based distributed computing. The report identifies the windows of opportunities as well as market growth predictions for new entrants and incumbent vendors.
Other key findings of the report include:
- Rich clients will supplant portals as the primary interface to Web Services and Service-oriented functionality in the enterprise by the end of 2007.
- The total opportunity for rich clients for SOAs is over $923 million by 2010.
- The window of opportunity for new entrants in the rich client market will start to wane with the release of the Microsoft Longhorn update of windows in the 2006-2007 timeframe.
- The increasing adoption of sometimes-connected devices, mobile computing, asynchronous computing, and e-Forms will mandate widespread and rapid adoption of rich clients.
The report, available on ZapThink’s website at www.zapthink.com, discusses several companies, including Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE), Altio, Apple, AT&T, Citrix, Curl, Cysive, DreamFactory, FileMaker, Focus Solutions, General Interface, Harmonia, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, JackBe, Kinitos, Laszlo Systems, Lucent, Macromedia (NASDAQ: MACR), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Motorola, Mozilla, Nexaweb, Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL), Oracle, Plumtree, RatchetSoft, SAP, SCO Group (NASDAQ: SCOX), Siebel, Softricity, TiVo, Vignette, and Vultus.
Read more at: ZapThink Press ReleaseRich and Smart Clients for Service-Oriented Architectures
Companies originally moved to adopt standards-based technologies like those underlying the Web and the Internet as a way to achieve distributed computing functionality at a very low total cost of ownership. However, these companies had to forego many of the user interface and productivity advantages that other distributed computing methods, such as traditional client/server applications, used to give them. As a result, companies continue to struggle to address the issue of how to realize the benefits of rich clients in conjunction with the benefits of distributed, low-cost applications.
While companies have long delivered application functionality to Web browsers, users are now coming to expect increasingly greater interactivity from this presentation tier. They are demanding a set of rich user experience capabilities that include visual interactivity elements and instant access to information, interaction with distributed and remote applications, and integration with local desktop applications. Businesses today want to gain the operational and cost advantages of Internet and Web Services technologies, but don’t want the limitations that Web browsers impose on user interfaces.
This report discusses and analyzes approaches to providing the optimal combination of rich client interaction and low-cost interaction through standards-based distributed computing. In addition, this report will present an approach to designing SOAs that appropriately abstract presentation layer considerations and enable users to choose the user interfaces that are most appropriate to their business needs without having to change any underlying business logic.
SCO Buys Web Services Tool Vendor
Ronald Schmelzer, analyst for market research firm ZapThink LLC, said the acquisition was interesting because of Vultus’s focus on the presentation layer of web services applications. “It’s a bold move by SCO, since not even IBM or Microsoft have put a lot of thought or emphasis on the presentation layer of web services,” Schmelzer said. “It’s also necessary since SCO doesn’t have any strong presentation layer capabilities of their own.”
Read more at: TechWebSCO Web Services Strategy Targets SMBs
Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with ZapThink LLC, a Cambridge, Mass.-based market research firm, said the interesting part about SCO’s announcement “is that it is solidly aimed at the mid-market–a space that has been slow to adopt Web services, when compared to the enterprise segment.” One of the reasons for this is that integration at the mid-market level is external–with suppliers, partners and customers–rather than internal, so security concerns have hindered mid-market adoption of Web services, he said.
Bloomberg’s ZapThink partner, Ronald Schmelzer agreed, but said a market used to external integration and mostly homogeneous systems sets up Microsoft as to claim the spoils.
“However, Linux is increasingly gaining traction in the SMB markets, and it is clear that SCO realizes that there is a market opportunity here,” Schmelzer said.
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