SOA filling the Gaps

Today (April, 21) is the Holocaust Day. This post is in the memory of my cousins, aunts and uncles murdered by the Nazis in concentration camps before I was born. I n July 2008 I published a post in my Vendor Survival series. In the post titled Will SUN Microsystems Survive until 2018? I argued that Sun will not survive and named IBM , HP and EMC as companies which may think of Sun as target for acquisition. My opinion was supported by S un discussing with IBM the possibility that IBM will acquire it . However, Sun attempts to being acquired by IBM failed. Sun's board was divided to acquisition supporter ( Jonathan Schwartz camp) and those who opposed the deal ( Scott McNealy camp). Instead of being purchased by IBM for $7 billion USDs, Sun is going to be acquired by Oracle for approximately $7.4 billion. I never thought of Oracle as a potential buyer of Sun or any other hardware vendor.I still think that Oracle's decision to buy Sun is probably wrong. Oracle ...

BPEL for the People  is not a new song like John Lennon 's Power to the People . It is a new extension to WS-BPEL standard called officially BPEL4People. The new extension goal is to address Human Processes to the automatic processes addressed so far by BPEL. The proposed extension was submitted to OASIS as draft in 2009. In my lecture on SOA &  BPM in a CIO s course, a week ago I summarized the current status of BPM by the following bullets: Many enterprises did not start their BPM initiative Usually a BPM effort is executed together with a SOA initiative. Sometimes they are not synchronized because SOA is initiated by IT while BPM is initiated by a Business unit. In many cases the implementation scope is in a departmental level or a Business Line and not in the Enterprise . A large number of BPM tools in the market indicating an immature market Beginning of market consolidation due to acquisitions As far as BPM standar...