http://oracle.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Ash Massoudi en Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media SYS-CON Media Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:03:26 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss 10 http://oracle.sys-con.com/node/504430 For years, the telecom industry has been aggressively expanding into IT services to offset declining revenue from traditional voice and data services. Today telecom's infrastructure-focused IT services such as computer hosting are already commoditized. Telecom companies are trying to figure out how to climb up the IT stack towards application-focused software services where the business value is more direct and the margins higher.<p><a href="http://oracle.sys-con.com/node/504430" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:00:00 EST http://oracle.sys-con.com/node/504430 http://oracle.sys-con.com/node/467329 The advent of SOA and standard-base Web services together with Internet based delivery models has provided the essential base for facilitating new software platform innovations. One of these innovations is a breakthrough software componentization technique that we have coined Service Oriented Programming (SOP). While SOA focuses on communication between systems using 'service operations,' SOP provides a new technique to build agile application modules using in-process, native service operations as the 'units of assembly.'<p><a href="http://oracle.sys-con.com/node/467329" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:15:00 EST http://oracle.sys-con.com/node/467329