Posted on January 19, 2008 by Judith
Just when it began to look like BEA might take itself private, the company gave into the mounting pressure and became the latest Oracle acquisition. A few months ago I wrote about my thoughts on the potential acquisition. While on the surface it might appear that Oracle is going after the customer base, [...]
Filed under: BEA, Oracle, business process, middleware, software industry | Tagged: Forte, Java, Jonathan Swartz, middleware, MySQL, NetDynamics, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, transaction processing, Tuxedo | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 15, 2007 by Judith
I have just gotten back from the Object Management Group’s SOA Consortium meeting. This is a very good advocacy group consisting of primarily corporate customers with a few collection of assorted vendors and integrators. It is a very thoughtful and pragmatic group. I have been a member of the steering committee for [...]
Filed under: ESB, Enterprise Service Bus, IBM, business process, service oriented architecture, software industry | Tagged: , agility, business process, Enterprise Service Bus, hype, Object Management Group, OMG, Sandy Carter, service orientation, SOA, web services | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 9, 2007 by Judith
I am back from SAP’s annual industry influencer conference. When I attend one of these meetings I typically take lots of notes on my laptop so that after the fact I can go back and make sense of what the executives actually said. It is a fascinating process. When I take these [...]
Filed under: BEA, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, business process, software industry | Tagged: BEA, business process, IBM, innovation, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, SOA | No Comments »
