Enterprise Architecture News & How-To


Oracle Beefs Up SOA with AmberPoint Deal

Oracle today said it has agreed to acquire AmberPoint, a supplier of software for managing service-oriented architectures, for an undisclosed sum.

DOD Employs Primitives To Bring Enterprise Architectures into the Future

The DOD looks to a common vocabulary to help reduce cost of developing and maintaining systems. Plus a Q&A Dennis Wisnosky, the DOD's business mission area CTO and chief architect.

Oracle-Sun Road Map Will Focus on Bundles

Oracle plans to invest heavily in developing and selling hardware bundled with applications and database software.

New SOA Gadget Tool for Enterprise Web Devs

Open source middleware provider WSO2 is billing its new Gadget Server as "a radical departure from traditional portals."

HP Extends Public, Private Cloud Portfolio

HP for the first time is enabling infrastructure and application provisioning services to third-party cloud providers, initially Amazon's EC2.

Sun Releases Java EE 6 Reference Implementation, Plus GlassFish and NetBeans Updates

Sun Microsystems last week released the reference implementation of the newly approved Java Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) specification, as well new versions of the GlassFish application server and the NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE).

Java-Based App Dev Tool Provides GUI for Green Screen

Application developers have a new tool that might make dealing with mainframe software a little easier.

JCP Approves Java EE 6 Spec v2

The Java Enterprise Edition specification (Java EE 6) has been approved by the Java Community Process (JCP).

SpringSource, Oracle To Back Modular Eclipse Project for Java

The momentum behind the OSGi-based modular approach to developing and deploying applications and libraries got some additional horsepower last week when Oracle and SpringSource announced that they would be the first two companies backing a newly proposed Eclipse project.

Ruby Rocks at Qcon

JRuby project co-lead Charles Nutter points to packed sessions at the annual Qcon conference as evidence of Ruby's growing popularity.

Interop New York: Customers Press Vendors for Private Clouds

Google, Microsoft and Amazon pitched their respective cloud offerings during the keynote panel session at Interop New York Thursday.

Q&A: Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Yousef Khalidi Discusses Private Cloud Migration

Yousef Khalidi talked about Microsoft's new Azure cloud services at the Interop trade show on Thursday.

Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia Kick Off PDC 09

Microsoft's dev confab keynote spotlights Windows Azure and cloud development.

Q&A: Google's Enterprise Software Plans

Google described its efforts in the enterprise software space, including its e-mail contract win with the city of Los Angeles.

VS2010 ALM Acquires Teamprise Clients

Microsoft announced today in Berlin that it has acquired the Teamprise Client Suite, which supports Eclipse and other cross-platform environments for Team Foundation Server.