SOA filling the Gaps

I was asked in ebizq SOA forum: What Do You Think of Oracle Buying AmberPoint? My answer in the following lines is my First Take of that acquisition. AmberPoint is a very small vendor who has a remarkable Run Time SOA Governance product. Its offerings includes also SOA Management solutions and lately also Transactions Run Time Governance products. It was a matter of time until one of the mega companies will acquire it. The natural candidate for acquiring it was its closest partner Microsoft . I think that Oracle acquired it in order to fill a gap in its SOA portfolio ( BEA licensed AmberPoint's products prior to being acquired by Oracle), but the main reason for that acquisition is beyond SOA. Executing Oracle strategy requires Network and Systems Management (NSM) solutions even before the Sun acquisition. After the Sun acquisition an NSM solution is a must. Oracle's sales men are talking about management solutions at least four or five years, but unfortunatel...

I published a link to my post Choosing a SOA Consultant in Utilizer.  Utilizer is a new pre beta site. The site provides a portal like page for every author. You can look at my page as an example. Each article's page includes related articles. For example choosing a SOA Consultant page includes the article Anatomy of a Cloud Consultant - What defines a "cloud expert"?, written by Reuven Cohen, a leading Cloud Computing expert. The interesting article demonstrates deep understanding of Cloud Computing and I do agree with most of the ideas expressed in it. However, I have different opinion on some issues as described in the following paragraph. "You are only as good as your last job" In my opinion you are as good as your experience and capabilities and not as your last job. A consultant is not a CXO ( CEO , CTO etc.) who makes the decisions and is also responsible for performing the projects derived from the decisions. Many years ago when I was a C...