One possible scenario would be for Red Hat to put all of Corel's eggs in the Linux basket and either stabilise or de-prioritise development on other platforms. The market seems to like the idea of Red Hat acquiring Corel - even if this just hearsay...
Time to step down from the soap box now. Now that's a hack with style that had us laughing down the aisles (of Waitrose). Not that we condone hacking of course. Or dodgy rhymes, come to that. Then came Oxfam, which was also hacked on Tuesday, when...
The Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) is to use SOAP as the message level protocol for its ebXML B2B standards, which are aimed at simplifying and standardizing commercial transactions over the web.
It's strange, like I am an actor in a soap opera who plays himself. Once every six months or so Larry Ellison grants an interview with a UK broadsheet, passing judgement on anything and everything - some of it even IT-related.
The company's EAI software is called biztalk - a messaging platform that can integrate separate systems, for instance information held at a GP's surgery and information of social services and hospital treatment and deliver it via a web-based portal.
Anyone with a middleware, messaging or EAI solution is quickly rebranding their portfolio with the ubiquitous web services message. The next answer was middleware/messaging, EDI, then enterprise application integration, and now web services.