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A newsletter from TechTarget
October 15, 2007
IN THIS ISSUE:
> From the Editor: Oracle's SOA market play for BEA Systems
> Ask the Experts: WF and WS-BPEL
> Learning Center: ESB Learning Guide
> Site Highlights: The Pros and Cons of Use Case Diagrams
> Webcasts: Accelerating Business Agility with SOA: Hear Major New
Announcements from IBM - Vendor Webcast
> More From SearchWebServices.com: Is SOA becoming ubiquitous?
FROM THE EDITOR
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Oracle's SOA market play for BEA Systems
[Michael Meehan]
Chances are you've heard by now that Oracle Corp. has put in a $6.6
billion bid to buy BEA Systems Inc. We've got a full blown story on
it coming today that will delve into the service-oriented
architecture ramifications of this move and we'll have numerous
follow ups as events unfold.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2382989/6276287
Yet, for the moment, let's look squarely at the reasons why Oracle
might want to take this leap. Dana Gardner has already posted an
incisive look into the deal. A lot of what he says jibes with the
responses in our recent reader survey.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2382990/6276287
First and foremost is the Big Blue specter looming behind this deal.
IBM gets SOA. It flexed its muscles with its massive Impact
conference, focused solely on SOA, this Spring, where it spent four
solid days touting "business-driven computing" to an assemblage of
thousands.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2382991/6276287
Combine that with a story we ran last week in which industry
observers noted that SOA is the thing that will let you use a whole
host of hot new technologies and then you begin to see why Oracle's
taking this step. It doesn't want to be a game piece on IBM's
chessboard.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2382992/6276287
Of 195 non-software business user company respondents in our survey,
25.1% named IBM WebSphere as their main SOA/Web services platform.
Microsoft's .NET was second at 14.9% and then Apache, BEA, SAP, Sun
and Oracle, in that order, came in around the 5-7% range. Obviously
those numbers aren't necessarily gospel, but they do confirm what we
see time and again in these sorts of surveys: IBM's way out front of
the pack on SOA. Microsoft's lone wolf approach to
service-orientation hasn't captured much of the market compared to
its Java competitors and nobody has been able to emerge yet from the
large pile of everyone else.
Yet if Oracle absorbs BEA, it would be neck and neck with Microsoft
and poised to challenge Big Blue in the areas of integration and
software infrastructure. As Gardner noted, that would put a ton
pressure on SAP, which directly competes with Oracle in enterprise
applications as well as in application development. The last thing
SAP wants is to have to try to sell business applications to users
running on an Oracle platform.
While there's massive overlap between BEA's offering and Oracle's
Fusion line, BEA does have three particular strengths that Oracle
might be looking to leverage: data services, internal portals and
external transactions. Those were the three most popular types of
service-based applications our users reported they are either working
on or plan on undertaking in the next year. Even more importantly,
the demand for these types of applications increased sharply with
respondents who reported their companies had achieved some measure of
architectural maturity. In other words, the farther along users are
with SOA, the more important those projects are likely to become.
BEA has its AquaLogic Data Services Platform, it has its WebLogic
Portal product as well as the portal functionality it acquired when
it bought Plumtree Software in 2005, and it has the Tuxedo
transactional business on which it built itself. So the BEA goose
might be sitting on a few golden eggs ... and that's not a bad pet
for a would-be giant to have.
MORE >
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2382993/6276287
ASK THE EXPERT
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WF and WS-BPEL
[Sri Nagabhirava]
Sri Nagabhirava explains the definitions and differences between
Windows Workflow Foundation and WS-BPEL.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2382994/6276287
LEARNING CENTER
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ESB Learning Guide
This new SearchWebServices.com learning guide introduces you to the
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), a service-oriented methodology for
enterprise application integration. This collection, which includes
articles, expert advice, white papers and much more, will get you up
to speed on how ESBs are changing the way we do integration.
> More on this:
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2382995/6276287
SITE HIGHLIGHTS
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The Pros and Cons of Use Case Diagrams
Practitioners often express their intent by overworking the limited
use case diagram notation, but they lose readers in the muddle of
bubbles with obscure relationships and microscopic text. This article
examines the pitfalls of relying to heavily on use case diagrams and
offers recommendations for a more balanced and restrained approach.
This piece also provides tips on how to avoid being overwhelmed your
use cases. You?ll also get expert insight into where the principal
value of use cases lies and how diagrams and tables can provide a
big-picture overview that complements this detail.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2382996/6276287
PODCASTS & WEBCASTS
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Accelerating Business Agility with SOA: Hear Major New Announcements
from IBM - Vendor Webcast
When: Available On Demand
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2382997/6276287
Speakers: Robert J. LeBlanc General Manager, Global Consulting
Services and SOA IBM Global Business Services
Tom Rosamilia General Manager, Application & Integration
Middleware (AIM) Division IBM Software Group
Sandy Carter IBM Vice President, SOA & WebSphere Strategy,
Channels and Marketing
Sponsor: IBM, http://go.techtarget.com/r/2382998/6276287
View All Podcasts & Webcasts at:
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MORE FROM SEARCHWEBSERVICES.COM
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Is SOA becoming ubiquitous?
SOA is becoming less of a technology buzzword, but even if SOA is
becoming invisible, it is still seen as the enabler for most of the
hot new buzzwords.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2383000/6276287
Forrester urges architects to adopt SOA-based BPM tools
Enterprise architects are missing significant advantages if they
ignore mature integration-centric BPM suites as part of their SOA
development, according to a new Forrester Research report.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2383001/6276287
SOA stuck with complex tools?
SOA adoption is stuck because tools are too difficult for the average
coder to work with, says Mark Taber, new CEO of Active Endpoints
Inc., who urges a simpler approach to tooling.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2383002/6276287
SaaS, composite applications and SOA: Making them work together
SOA, SaaS and composite applications come from different app dev
impulses, but consultant Robert Schneider insists they can be
combined effectively at the enterprise level.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2383003/6276287
Using RELAX NG For data integration
XML Schema proving a difficult fix when it comes to data integration?
Perhaps you should take a look at RELAX NG.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2383004/6276287
Who's killing SOA?
Jason Bloomberg discusses the possible directions that SOA may take
now that it has surpassed the "hype" phase.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2383005/6276287
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