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    Oracle lays out telecom service delivery platform

    Posted April 18, 2006 - 11:05 am

    Oracle Corp. made another move to target telecommunications providers Tuesday, unveiling plans for a telecom service delivery platform (SDP).

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    Take steady, balanced approach to SOA

    Posted April 13, 2006 - 5:05 pm

    Helvetia Patria started down the path six years ago to what is now being called SOA. At that time, the company wanted to create a new Internet-based platform that it called eBusiness Center. The platform would bring together the firm's legacy, proprietary and open-source software together in a "loosely coupled integration" based around open standards. This is the tale of their journey.

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    Red Hat, JBoss tie-up about SOA, stacks, reach

    Posted April 10, 2006 - 1:24 pm

    Red Hat Inc.'s planned purchase of JBoss Inc. will enable the Linux distribution company to more fully embrace SOA (service-oriented architecture) as well as expand its offerings of integrated software stacks, according to company executives Monday. For its part, open-source middleware vendor JBoss will gain access to Red Hat's worldwide channels to extend its global reach.

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    HP moves to integrate open source, commercial software

    Posted April 5, 2006 - 1:32 pm

    Hewlett-Packard Co. has introduced what it claims to be "industry first" offerings of hardware, software, and services to simplify the integration of open source and commercial software.

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    LogicBlaze's open-source SOA stack debuts

    Posted March 27, 2006 - 5:08 pm

    LogicBlaze Inc. took the wraps off its open-source Fuse SOA (service-oriented architecture) software stack Monday. The vendor also announced a tie-up with IBM Corp., one of the companies heavily pushing SOA, a way to create and manage IT systems through reusable software and services.

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    Lawson's ERP upgrade adds SOA capabilities

    Posted March 16, 2006 - 10:35 am

    Lawson Software Inc. has announced a new version of its ERP applications that includes SOA (services-oriented architecture) capabilities delivered through a middleware partnership with IBM Corp.

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    IBM gets closer to Cognos with global SOA alliance

    Posted March 7, 2006 - 2:48 pm

    IBM Corp. and analytics software vendor Cognos Inc. have signed a new global strategic alliance around service-oriented architecture (SOA), the companies announced Tuesday. The relationship builds on an already close partnership between the two firms to include more joint development, sales and marketing in the SOA space.

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    IBM sets up SOA hub in India

    Posted March 7, 2006 - 2:17 pm

    IBM Corp. has set up a global hub Bangalore, India, for the management and creation of replicable components based on SOA (service oriented architecture), according to a company executive.

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    SOAs simplify tech for Ontario gov't

    Posted March 6, 2006 - 2:40 am

    Transforming a puzzling patchwork of disjointed legacy applications to an integrated yet flexible suite may seem a daunting task. But it's a goal the Ontario government is well on its way to achieving thanks to its new SOA initiative.

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    Software AG unwraps SOA product suite

    Posted February 28, 2006 - 10:48 am

    Germany's Software AG is rolling out a set of products aimed at helping enterprises move their IT systems to a services-oriented architecture (SOA). The announcement comes as numerous suppliers of business applications, including SAP AG and Oracle Corp., champion SOA as a way for enterprises to make better use of assets locked up in legacy applications and reduce development costs by creating reusable software services.

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    HP plots SOA course for management software

    Posted February 28, 2006 - 9:59 am

    At HP's inaugural Asia-Pacific software forum this week, the company revealed its roadmap for its OpenView management suite, with a big emphasis on service oriented architectures and integration.

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    The SOA in IT Benchmark Report: What CIOs Should Know about How SOA Is Changing IT

    Posted February 22, 2006 - 4:50 pm

    Service-oriented architectures hold great promise for reducing IT costs through "faster and easier customization, integration, and deployment of IT capabilities," say the authors of a recent Aberdeen Group report. In fact, Aberdeen predicts that over the next 5 years, "the top Global 2000 organizations have a potential to save $53 billion from their IT budgets as a result of SOA reducing software implementation costs." Despite this, 41% of survey respondents cited "limited visibility for SOA value" as the top challenge to SOA adoption.

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    RSA: CA's 'Project SOA' tackles Web services security

    Posted February 14, 2006 - 6:24 pm

    CA Inc. is readying new software designed to help secure and manage systems using Web services software.

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    Sun updates portal server for 'Web 2.0'

    Posted December 16, 2005 - 10:37 am

    Sun announced on Thursday a new version of Java System Portal Server that will allow developers to offer collaborative and identity-based content through Web-based applications. The portal can be downloaded for free and used with Java Enterprise System, Solaris Enterprise System and Java Application Platform Suite.

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    SAP charges forward with SOA plans

    Posted December 8, 2005 - 6:08 pm

    SAP is blazing ahead with the next iteration of its NetWeaver technology and its Enterprise Services Architecture, even as most of its customers trail several technology generations behind the ERP giant.

  • SOA Software buys mainframe Web services platform

    Posted December 5, 2005 - 1:59 pm

    SOA Software Inc. has acquired a mainframe Web services development and deployment platform from Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. that it will add to its portfolio of Web services infrastructure software, SOA Software plans to announce on Monday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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    Top vendors align on SOA programming model

    Posted December 1, 2005 - 9:15 pm

    A pack of top software vendors gathered Wednesday to unveil a new specification the companies hope will simplify application development within SOA environments.

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    CA puts SOA at the heart of Unicenter overhaul

    Posted November 15, 2005 - 12:04 pm

    CA is introducing a new integration platform in its latest Unicenter release, following the software industry trend in placing standards and services at the heart of its systems management suite.

  • HP updates application modernization services

    Posted November 10, 2005 - 11:54 am

    Hewlett Packard Co. is refreshing its portfolio of application modernization services, putting more emphasis on the incorporation or replacement of legacy applications within a service-oriented architecture (SOA), it announced Wednesday.The services can help businesses improve the return on legacy applications by identifying which ones to re-engineer or re-host, and which to replace or retire, according to Paul Evans, HP's worldwide director of application modernization services.

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    IBM acquires SOA hardware appliance vendor

    Posted October 20, 2005 - 2:37 pm

    In a bid to round out its SOA product portfolio, IBM has acquired Cambridge, MA-based DataPower Technology Inc. Robert LeBlanc, general manager of WebSphere at IBM, commented that the DataPower appliances will be used to improve the performance, security, and flow of business transactions through SOAs.

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    SOA skills shortage stalling the promise of a new era

    Posted October 18, 2005 - 10:47 am

    A critical skills shortage is holding back the widespread use of service oriented architectures (SOA) and the promise of a new era of interoperability. John Brand, research director for IT analyst firm Hydrasight, attributes the shortage to confusion over what SOA is. "SOA is a good buzzword but its definition changes between organizations," says Brand.

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    Toward service-oriented architectures

    Posted October 7, 2005 - 1:11 pm

    A recent Goldman Sachs poll found that 87 percent of CIOs surveyed were currently using Web services, while 54 percent said they planned by year-end to make infrastructure changes to support service-oriented architectures (SOA). The sticking point is that IT execs aren't all that clear on what exactly it takes to deploy an SOA. That's where the vendors come in.

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    Spinning SOA into action

    Posted October 6, 2005 - 10:20 am

    SOA speeds up application development and improves reusability of IT resources. But even though vendors paint a wonderful picture of SOA, adoption remains low. Here

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    AmberPoint system offers SOA validation

    Posted September 27, 2005 - 1:26 pm

    AmberPoint's latest offering helps developers test services used by SOAs before deploying them into a real-world environment.

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    IBM fills out SOA product line

    Posted September 13, 2005 - 1:20 pm

    IBM Corp. introduced new products Tuesday that fill some gaps in its portfolio of software for integrating applications using the SOA (services oriented architecture) model.
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