Part of what we have been doing with Rational, and plan to do more of in the future, is striving for more optimisation between IBM middleware and Rational's tools. Microsoft sells its own modeling tools, but relies on Rational for the more complex...
For a start, where do the company's existing horizontal services such as middleware fit in? Vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and HP use terms as diverse as 'on demand', 'agile business', 'grid computing' and 'adaptive infrastructure' to...
The report "SOA: handle with care" said that while the simple view of SOA as web services-based middleware for integration and application development can bring benefits, this is too short-sighted a focus to improve the alignment of IT and business.
Virtual telco Vanco has turned to Sun Microsystems subsidiary SeeBeyond for a major implementation of middleware. Vanco will use the Sun Java Integration Suite, formerly SeeBeyond ICAN Suite, as part of a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
The Aberdeen Group benchmark report Enterprise Service Bus and SOA Middleware surveyed more than 120 IT and business professionals and found that 90 per cent are adopting or have already adopted SOA technologies.
Amitabh Ray, vice president of global delivering consulting and application services at IBM, explained: "What we are doing is creating SOA-based reusable components that will enhance the speed to market so we will be able to do implementations...