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The GIF File Format is Finally Free

By Dick Weisinger

On Sunday the last remaining patent on the GIF file format expired.  From the GNU web site: We were able to search the patent databases of the USA, Canada, Japan, and the European Union. The Unisys patent expired on 20…

SOA Governance — What is it?

By Dick Weisinger

SOA Governance has been headlined in the IT news over the last couple of months, and analysts like Gartner’s Paolo Malinverno say things like “Service-oriented architecture governance isn’t an option — it’s an imperative.”  But just what is SOA Governance? A major goal of…

And Some Stats on SaaS Adoption…

By Dick Weisinger

Yesterday I gave some SOA adoption numbers.  There are some new numbers out this week too about SaaS and are showing the SaaS delivery model gaining momentum.  SaaS is a hosted deployment that is sold on a pay-for-use or subscription…

SOA Adoption Stats

By Dick Weisinger

Analyst reports are confirming that adoption of SOA is growing, but just how fast is another question.  And depending on which industry you’re looking at the numbers are quite different.  The Aberdeen Group report “Enterprise Service Bus and SOA Middleware” published in…

BPEL 2.0 Available for Public Comment

By Dick Weisinger

In an earlier Formtek blog I described and compared BPEL and BPMN 2.0 technologies and discussed how both are important to BPM.  BPEL is a language that describes the flow and coordination of interactions between published business component interfaces.  BPMN is a notational…