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The Third Order of Order
I'm thoroughly enjoying David Wein berger's Everything Is Miscell aneous (The Power of the New Digital
Testing Velocity Part 2 - Why do we test?
A couple weeks ago, I began a series on keeping your test suite fast and effective. I now am going
Aptana Jaxer: ser ver-side Ajax
Aptana released Jaxer: the first ever Ajax server... you got that right, ser ver-side Ajax ... the co
App Engine and Java
The world is now split into Python pro grammers, making funny 'Goo' noises over App Engine, and every
GoogleAppE ngine -Not Delivering On the Promise So Far
Well, if you haven't heard of it yet, Google launched something called "Google App Engine", a highly
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WS-FalseSecurity: Are you at risk?
In our previous post, we mentioned how the notion of standards in SOA can be just the opposite. This is largely because the standards are generally generated by whatever tool you are using to create services – it’s not something you construct by hand
Wring ROI out of your UDDI Registry/Repository by plugging in SOA Validation…
We’ve been talking about validating SOA Governance approaches for three years now, but surprisingly, we have found that very few enterprise IT shops of any serious scale are actually using them to their potential at this point. I had lunch yesterday
So you have a SOA Management dashboard. How do you drive it?
Lately we've done a lot of research and publishing on how Dev & QA teams can ensure better quality throughout the software development and release lifecycle. But what about the IT Operations guys?It seems we are encountering a disconnect betwe
The Continuous 'C'
Several weeks back I gave you a real life experience that typified why our test strategy we call the Three C’s has Complete as one of those C’s. This blog will give you a different real-life experience on why Continuous deserves “C” status.I was mee
Oracle buys BEA - Nice time to get a check-up
The biggest news in software may have already hit this year, but it's not like we didn't hear it coming for the past few months. Oracle finally makes good on its intent to buy BEA at $8.5B: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120048691486294361.htmlTo us
European SOA: Ahead of the Curve?
I'm in Germany right now, looking forward to a session at ZapThink's Practical SOA in Frankfurt event tomorrow. I'll be joining some peers from companies like T-Mobile, Swisscom, Novartis and SwissLife who are going to be sharing their own SOA succes
Feeling Crushed under the SOA Data requirement?
One of the most difficult obstacles to attaining enterprise-ready SOA is the sheer scale of the systems and data that need to be managed. To test the actual results of an SOA application, we need a very realistic set of data – both positive and ne
IT Predictions for 2008 -- Are Some Too Late?
Yes, there are many pundits proffering predictions on the coming year, but these are ours. In fielding these over lunch at iTKO, we couldn't help but notice a few of them would have been last year's predictions as well... but, even in IT, not all cha
Service-Oriented Virtualization: Encore Webinar Dec. 13
Yesterday's webinar with analyst Theresa Lanowitz and our own John Michelsen on "Service-Oriented Virtualization" was well attended - so much so in fact, that our little event room reached capacity!So we are going to do one more live webinar on this
Webinar on Service Oriented Virtualization
We have been doing so much with Virtualization in this blog that I have wondered if you guys are getting tired of it, yet almost every comment I get in person and most of the press requests are around the virtualization concepts for SOA.And you know
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Oracle Goes After Salesforce
CRM News Desk wrote: Oracle zeroed in on Salesforce.com the other day when it rolled out the latest version of Siebel's rechristened on-demand software, now called Oracle CRM On Demand 15 and targeted up to run on Blackberries with fashionable social networking and collaborat...
Doesn't Oracle Have Its Own Virtualization Scheme?
Oracle News Desk wrote: Doesn't Oracle have its own virtualization scheme? Isn't it Xen? Well, Oracle's soon-to-be takeover, BEA - the feds just okayed the merger - said Wednesday that it had teamed with VMware to deliver Java virtualization to the enterprise.
Saleforce.com for Sale to Oracle at $75 a Share!
Adam wrote: Maureen, You're a week late on the story and your title is misleading. This is a rumor that was started last weekend, possibly to drive up Salesforce.com stock. The rumor was never confirmed and Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) did increase in value somewhere in the ran...
Oracle BEA - TIBCO Next?
TIBCO News Desk wrote: With BEA gone to Oracle, the speculators have turned to TIBCO Software, figuring the smaller middleware company is likely to be swallowed by some bigger fish. Its stock shot up better than 11% on the news that Oracle was buying BEA. Its market cap is $1.4 billion.
Sun Buys MySQL, Gets Oracle for an Enemy
Sun News Desk wrote: Sun, Oracle's sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source database that's part of the famous LAMP stack.
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Oracle Previews Fusion Middleware 11g
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Virtualization Conference Keynote Webcast Live on SYS-CON.TV
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3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo: Themes & Topics
From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discu
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Virtualization - Likewise Adds Oracle Linux & Mainframes
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Virtualization Meets DaaS - Desktop-as-a-Service
After a $1.5 million angel round, Desktone, which was started in 2006 by Eric Pulier, who also start
Virtualization - NetSuite, SugarCRM Get BT Reselling Their "Cloudware"
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Oracle Partners Embrace Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA)
Since the launch of the Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) last April, Oracle's partn
Engelbart's Usability Dilemma: Efficiency vs Ease-of-Use
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Web 2.0 Is Fundamentally About Empowering People
'Unlocking content to be remixed into new business value' is the driver of Web 2.0 in the enterprise
Why Do 'Cool Kids' Choose Ruby or PHP to Build Websites Instead of Java?
Here is a question that I have been pondering on and off for quite a while: Why do 'cool kids' choos
Oracle's Sales Don't Cut It
Oracle, the center of much Wall Street anticipation this week, came in $100 million and change shy o
Oracle Props Up Unbreakable Linux
Oracle is throwing its Clusterware software at its paying Unbreakable Linux support customers for fr
Oracle Releases Clusterware for Oracle Linux Support Customers
Oracle announced that Oracle Unbreakable Linux support customers at the Basic and Premier support le
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Oracle Goes After Salesforce
Oracle zeroed in on Salesforce.com the other day when it rolled out the latest version of Siebel's r
The Grand Convergence: Web + RIA + Widgets + Client/Server
For the past ten years application developers have been stuck with only two desktop client choices.
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