Enterprise Architecture News & How-To


SOA News: Iona's Open Source Initiative

Last week, companies announced various product deals and developments in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) space. The big news was an open source play by Iona Technologies.

IBM Loosens Its Open Standards Patent Rights

Company aims to increase software interoperability by not asserting rights to more than 150 Web technology patents.

BizTalk Server 2006 R2, 'Shrink-Wrapped SOA' Coming in September

Microsoft meets its shipping goal for server, and talks service-oriented architecture, too.

Microsoft Stacks Up Its SOA Strategy -- Q&A

Burley Kawasaki provides details on Microsoft's service-oriented architecture ideas.

Astadia Enables SaaS Via Pervasive's Solution

Companies form partnership to deliver Salesforce.com CRM solutions.

BizTalk Server 2006 R2, 'Shrink-Wrapped SOA' Coming in September

Meeting past promises, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that BizTalk Server 2006 R2 will ship in September.

SOA Trends Indicated in IBM Survey

An IBM tradeshow poll found signs that businesses are beginning to ramp up their service-oriented architecture efforts.

W3C Releases Web Services Protocol

The new WSDL 2.0 protocol adds standardization and better interoperability for Web services and service-oriented architectures.

Tibco Rolls Out New BPM Solution

Company enhanced its business process management solution for a service-oriented architecture.

BPM: Is It SOA's Reason for Being?

A service-oriented architecture makes the business case by enabling something else, and that something could be business process management.

Layer 7 Virtualizes SOA Security Solution

The company's XML firewall product gets an added distribution boost via virtualization.

Progress Adds New Features to ObjectStore

The company's object data management solution now features an AJAX-based application monitoring tool.

JBoss Tools Project to Get Exadel Plug-Ins

Red Hat adds Exadel Eclipse plug-ins as an open source resource through its JBoss Tools project.

Eclipse's Second Synchronized Project Release

Find out what's in store for this year's synchronized Eclipse project release.

Mule ESB Partner Program Launched

Program seeks to build partner community around open source enterprise service bus technology.