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InfoWorld - WSO2 will debut its open-source WSO2 Registry on Monday, providing registry and repository services for SOA.
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Two non-profit organizations devoted to promoting free and open source software standards have made a cooperative agreement. The Free Standards Group (FSG) and the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) will
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(InfoWorld) - Ten leading open-source software vendors have created a nonprofit consortium, dubbed the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), to push the adoption of more open-source technology in the business world. The group made the announcement Wednesday at the LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit in New York. The founding companies are Adaptive Planning, Centric CRM, CollabNet, EnterpriseDB, Hyperic, JasperSoft, Openbravo, SourceForge.net, SpikeSource, and Talend. They offer a wide range of open-source business software including business intelligence, business performance management, database, CRM (customer relationship management), ERP (enterprise resource planning) and systems management applications. The members pledged to work on resolving open-source software interoperability issues to make it easier for business users to integrate products from different vendors. The OSA will also work with open-source independent software vendors, systems integrators and the open-source community in general to find ways to create better integrated and simpler to use software stacks. Creating stacks of software components is a growing trend among open-source players as they compete with established stacks of operating systems, middleware, databases, and applications already offered by proprietary vendors. The consortium first plans to define tools, frameworks and best practices around simpler application deployment and interoperability. It will also look to establish communities to work on specific projects as well as facilitate joint marketing campaigns for open-source business applications. The group is actively seeking more members and has set up a Web site.
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InfoWorld - Cambridge, Mass. -- IBM and other parties are set to propose an open source systems management initiative for consideration by the Eclipse Foundation, with managing SOA a goal of the plan, an IBM official said at the EclipseWorld 2006 conference on Friday.
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$6 million...$30 million...$500,000...These are the real savings companies are reporting by transforming their powerful, secure Legacy systems into flexible SOA applications that meet the changing needs of their business. Before going down the road of "ripping and replacing" your valuable Legacy systems, join us and hear from the experts on how you can have the best of both worlds by integrating your Legacy with your SOA...and save your company millions at the same time. It's not as hard as you think. In this expert panel webcast, you'll learn: - Why CIOs are turning away from the hidden costs and complexities of re-writing their Legacy apps on new platforms- How to integrate your Legacy apps with your SOA and improve process efficiency throughout your company- How one CIO is adding up to 15 years to his Legacy systems, easily managing 1,500 web services, and eliminating hundreds of inefficient processes
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Taking a page from OSS for improving interagency collaboration.
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The WS-Management spec is part of the effort to improve Sun-Microsoft system interoperability. But IBM is taking a different road.
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BEA Systems Inc., IBM, Microsoft Corp., SAP AG and SunMicrosystems Inc . have submitted the WS-Addressing Web services specification to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for consideration as a standard.
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(InfoWorld) - Software AG will adopt the webMethods name for its Crossvision range of SOA (services oriented architecture) products, executives said Friday, outlining how they will integrate staff and products following the company'sÂ acquisition of webMethods. To eliminate one of the few overlaps in their product lines, Software AG will adopt webMethods' BPM (business process management) offering, and stop selling Fujitsu's Interstage BPM software, which it has distributed since December 2004. However, Software AG will support its existing Interstage customers for at least five years, said Peter KÃ¼rpick, board member responsible for research and development. Another area of overlap is in SOA management and governance, where KÃ¼rpick expects to see Software AG's CentraSite SOA registry and repository combined with webMethods' recently acquired Infravio SOA governance tools by the end of the year. "We are strong in managing metadata, and they are strong in governance policies, rules and regulations," he said. The combined product will likely retain the CentraSite name, he said. All other areas of the companies' product lines are complementary, and there will be no need for customers to migrate, KÃ¼rpick said. KÃ¼rpick will lead the integration of the companies' product development teams, where he expects managers from both companies will take senior roles. It won't be like a classic merger where "you own the body but the head and legs are gone," he said. He sees little need for layoffs as the product development teams are combined: "We already have an R&D force that is 50 percent low-cost, mostly in India, some in Bulgaria, so we already have a good cost structure," he said. Although there may be little scope for payroll savings, CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich expects earnings to improve this year as the two sales forces -- which will remain separate at least through the end of 2007 -- exploit opportunities to cross-sell the two product ranges. The combined entity's revenue will grow organically by 10 percent over the next 12 to 15 months, he said.
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Two months after the announcement of WS-Addressing, Microsoft has again joined Sun and other industry leaders including AMD, Dell and Intel in publishing the Web Services Management specification. WS-Management provides a common way for systems to access and exchange management information.
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On the IBM developerWorks site, there's a new post talking about a new Service Component Architecture module that's been released over on the PECL site - SCA_SDO.   We've just made our first release of SCA on the PECL repository. The code has been added into what was the SDO project and which has now been imaginatively renamed to SCA_SDO (you won't believe how much thought went into that...).    Main features include:  inclusion of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) component new PEAR packaging to install SCA and SDO as peer directories (PEAR/SCA and PEAR/SDO) new function in SDO_DAS_Relational to support multiple root data objects new function in SDO_DAS_XML to support CDATA sections (not yet complete)  To find out more about the project, check out its homepage.
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An investor's guide to service-oriented architecture
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WSO2 is offering its open-source WSO2 Mashup Server product, which leverages JavaScript and Web services in assembling mashups, on Monday. In positioning the product for use by JavaScript developers, the company is looking to enable delivery of more functional mashups than can be built with alternative GUI-based tools. A hosted online version of Mashup Server, called Mooshup.com, also will be launched Monday as a community site for developing and sharing mashups.With WSO2 Mashup Server 1.0, WSO2 anticipates a confluence of Web 2.0 social capabilities and enterprise needs. "Basically, what we believe is that enterprise IT is going to go more toward a social enterprise structure where the IT offerings are not only by IT staff but by anybody in the enterprise," said WSO2 Chairman/CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana.But WSO2 is targeting Web developers who can write JavaScript. "The main purpose of WSO2 Mashup Server is to allow developers to author new Web services in JavaScript," said Jonathan Marsh, WSO2 director of mashup technologies. These Web services can be consumed within other enterprise tools and exposed as an RSS or Atom feed, he said.WSO's mashup platform is not intended to complete head-to-head with more GUI-based business level mashup products. "There's a feeling that we had that limiting yourself to a GUI right off the bat gets you started very quickly, but you quickly reach walls that block you from doing precisely what you'd like to do," Marsh said. Eventually, users of those tools have to resort to JavaScript, he said.Mashups can be authored within the administrative UI, with a text editor, or with any popular IDE, WSO2 said."It's an interesting aspect to choose JavaScript as sort of the primary scripting language," said analyst Michael Cote of RedMonk. JavaScript has been primarily used in AJAX-style (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development, Cote noted. But plenty of people are familiar with JavaScript, he added.Built on the WSO2 Web services application Server, WSO2 Mashup Server can use information from Web services, HTML, and feeds and publishes the result as a Web service. Each service has metadata to simplify consumption by other mashups and Web services clients. Content and presentation are separated through XML and Web services to enable a service to be consumed by another mashup.Web service and UI artifacts are generated, such as WSDL, REST URLS and JavaScript stubs. Services can be composed from such sources as Web services, RSS, and HTML.Additionally, services can be accessed using a request-response pattern or be programmed to run over a long period of time. For example, a mashup initiating instant messaging alerts can warn transport companies about possible delays when there is snow.By leveraging WSO2's application server and registry, the mashup server gains capabilities for enterprise security, reliability, and governance, WSO2 said.Mooshup.com is being launched in a beta version. "The purpose is to help us drive downloads of Mashup Server," Marsh said.WSO2 sells support services for Mashup Server, with prices ranging from $2,000 per server per year to $8,000 per server per year, depending on levels of support.
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(InfoWorld) - In recent months, theÂ acquisition of SOA player webMethodsÂ has been the dominant news coming out of Software AG, but the middleware company also continues to hone its mainframe software and strategy. Software AG now has a CTO heading up its mainframe ETS (enterprise transaction systems) business. Joe Gentry, previously ETS senior vice president, has recently taken on the additional responsibility of steering development of new versions of the vendor's Adabas database and Natural programming language. Historically, Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich had overseen mainframe software development, but he has plenty on his plate particularly now that the vendor has closed its $546 million purchase of webMethods. Software AG closed the acquisition on June 1 and is nowÂ working on integrating its SOA tools with those of webMethods. The company feels that having a CTO will have send an important message to customers and the market that Software AG is looking at ways to innovate and take technology leadership with its software. Gentry divides his time equally between the U.S. and Europe (Software AG has its main headquarters in Germany). Last month, enterprise applications vendorÂ SAP AG announced the appointment of its first CTOÂ as a way to lay out a clear road map for the company's products and speak to particular areas of new development alongside ongoing software rollouts. In February of last year, Software AG announced new releases of its mainframe products -- Adabas 2006 and Natural 2006 -- centered around support for SOA development and Web services. The next versions of the products could appear within 18 months to two years, Gentry said, because Software AG operates on a release cycle for new software every two to three years. The next version of Adabas is likely to focus on ways to handle unstructured data, such as online information, as well as provide better Google-like search optimization, he added. Data archiving is also becoming more critical with Software AG anticipating that the amount of information stored in mainframe archives will double over the next few years. Another key goal for a new release of Adabas will be meeting the needs of so-called extreme transaction processing applications, which place heavy demands on databases and include credit-card processing and gaming applications. Software AG intends to continue its push around support for open-source technology, planning to add AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML)Â capability to the Natural application development platform with the first implementation out by the end of the third quarter. The vendor already provides an Eclipse interface for Natural and is a member both of the Eclipse Foundation and of the OpenAjax Alliance consortia. Software AG will also do more to integrate its newly acquired webMethods technology with both Adabas and Natural so users can generate Web services using the mainframe software, which then can be called by the webMethods products. IBM is Software AG's main mainframe software competitor. At the same time, the vendor enjoys a strong relationship with IBM's mainframe hardware division. Gentry doesn't see a need for Software AG to acquire additional mainframe technology, but the vendor is taking a look at several companies where an acquisition would yield an additional customer base. Those users would then potentially end up moving over to Adabas and Natural. Software AG is also keen to continue to grow on a geographic basis, having recently established its own operations in both Israel and Japan. "Next year, we move into Brazil and Latin America," Gentry said. One method of expanding is by acquiring the existing distributor for the vendor's software in a given location, which was the case in Israel, he added.
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Web services management vendor Actional and Westbridge Technology, which sold security infrastructure for Web services, are merging to focus on what company officials call âSOA (service-oriented architecture) enablement.â
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Standards body the Web Services Interoperability Organization, or WS-I, on Tuesday published updated standards compliance guidelines for applications that use file attachments.
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InfoWorld - With open-source software being formally introduced Monday, WSO2 seeks to bridge the Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails Web framework with the SOA and Web services spaces.