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SOA: Is SOA Still 10 to 20 Years Away?

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle was up 35% in the last quarter, with much of that gain coming from a strong showing with its applications, but its middleware business is running strong too with a 28% increase. And much of Oracle’s middleware targets the

SOA: Integrating Data

By Dick Weisinger

SOA is commonly used to knit together heterogeneous data sources. But as is often the case, the theory and potential for a technology is often far different than what is observed in practice. Very often project run into a kind

SOA: Service Oriented Storage

By Dick Weisinger

Services Oriented Architecture and storage technologies are converging into something that people are beginning to dub Services Oriented Storage (SOS), one component of a Service Oriented Infrastructure. A proliferation of proprietary technology storage solutions in the marketplace is confusing customers.

Open Source: Sun Shines With LAMP

By Dick Weisinger

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Php/Perl) has long been considered a basic building block of the Internet. Last week Sun bought a piece of the LAMP with their agreement to purchase MySQL for $1 billion. MySQL CEO Marten Mickos along

SOA: Skills Shortage Threatens Growth

By Dick Weisinger

While SOA is becoming a preferred technology in the enterprise, one thing holding it back is simply the lack of IT professionals trained and experienced with SOA technologies. More than half of the companies in a recent IBM/ZapThink sponsored survey