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SearchSOA.com This Week - March 17, 2008
A newsletter from TechTarget
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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> From the Editor: The SOA version of March Madness
> Ask the Experts: BPM portals
> Learning Center: BPEL Learning Guide
> Site Highlights: Service-oriented architecture bookshelf
> Webcasts: Transaction Visibility: The Key to Effective Application Performance Management - Vendor Webcast
> More From SearchSOA.com: SOA runtime major step for Eclipse - Milinkovich
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FROM THE EDITOR
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The SOA version of March Madness
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3281194/6276287
[Michael Meehan]
Rumor has it that the SOA market is on the brink of another wave of acquisitions. Oracle opened the year with its purchase of BEA Systems, but the move has yet to touch off much of anything in the way response. Possibly part of that is the deal took two major buyers off the market while Oracle ingests BEA.
Yet another part of that is the economy. Would-be buyers want to make sure they're making smart acquisitions. What sort of revenue stream are they picking up and how much is that worth? First quarter financial results loom as a major influence in answering those two questions. That's where the March Madness kicks in.
A niche player who can post a strong first quarter could position itself as the "gotta have it" item on the SOA market. You users out there might be thinking, "Big deal, this doesn't really affect me." Yet it does. If those vendors are hungry enough for quick revenue, they might be cutting some handsome deals over the next two weeks in order to pump up those balance sheets. Users might be able to land some best-of-breed technology at a discount and then have a large vendor step into place to
provide ongoing support for that technology.
We know Iona Technologies is up for sale. Many larger vendors have data services and SOA testing gaps. Does HP look to flesh out its management story? Does SAP make a move into BPM? What can Tibco, Software AG and Progress Software do to push themselves over that $1 billion revenue mark? Are RIA, composite application and enterprise mashup technologies where the money is in the current market?
Don't be surprised to see some clearance prices out there. The looming consolidation in the SOA space could create a buyer's market.
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ASK THE EXPERT
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BPM portals
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3281195/6276287
[Sri Nagabhirava]
Sri Nagabhirava discusses the effectiveness of portals for business process management.
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LEARNING CENTER
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BPEL Learning Guide
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3281196/6276287
To help you learn all there is to know about business process execution language for Web services (BPEL4WS), the SearchSOA.com team has put together a learning guide. In this BPEL learning guide, you'll find articles, tips, expert advice, white papers and more that will explain how BPEL fits into the world of Web services.
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SITE HIGHLIGHTS
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Service-oriented architecture bookshelf
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3281197/6276287
The chapters in the service-oriented architecture bookshelf have been chosen for your specific business needs. We will continue to update this center as often as possible in order to further your IT education. The following chapters include information on Web services integration, governance, Java, XML, REST, and Ajax.
SCA and SDO standards
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3281198/6276287
Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a specification that describes a model of building applications and systems using the core notions of SOA. David Linthicum shares his thoughts on SCA and SDO and their position as a SOA enabler.
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PODCASTS & WEBCASTS
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Transaction Visibility: The Key to Effective Application Performance Management - Vendor Webcast
When: Available On Demand
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3281199/6276287
Speaker: Jeff Cobb SVP, Products & Strategy, CA
Sponsor: CA, http://go.techtarget.com/r/3281200/6276287
View All Podcasts & Webcasts at:
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3281201/6276287
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MORE FROM SEARCHSOA.COM
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SOA runtime major step for Eclipse - Milinkovich
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3281202/6276287
The development of an SOA runtime, the release of Ajax tools, a Web services security project and an embrace of PHP demonstrate the vitality of the Eclipse Foundation, its director says.
IBM sees decline in number of U.S IT pros, boom in China
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3281203/6276287
While computer science enrollment sags in the U.S. and Europe, IBM finds enthusiastic coders in China and other emerging markets eager to learn about SOA, open standards and Web 2.0.
Liberty offers Web 2.0 open source security
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3281204/6276287
Liberty Alliance offers an open-source version of its privacy and security tools for Java developers working on Web 2.0 applications.
Red Hat buys SOA knowledge transfer expertise
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3281205/6276287
Red Hat's acquisition this week of Amentra, an SOA consulting firm, brings not only needed services support for JBoss middleware products, but also a knowledge transfer methodology designed to help IT organizations get up to speed on the service-oriented approach.
Web 2.0 leading SOA in buzzword compliance?
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3281206/6276287
Just as vendors slapped an "SOA" label on all of their products a few years back, they now seem to be doing the same with "Web 2.0."
Using the NetBeans IDE for RESTful Web Services
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3281207/6276287
William Brogden delves into how to use the NetBeans IDE and JAX-RS API to create RESTful Web services.
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