• Oracle to buy in-memory data grid company | InfoWorld | News | 2007-03-23 | By China Martens, IDG News Service
  integrate Tangosol w/Fusion, TimesTen in-memory database, & Oracle db...create a middleware stack capable of supporting applications carrying out real-time data analytics, grid-based in-memory computation and high-performance transactions.
  (tags: oracle tangosol real-time)
• Slow Down, Multitaskers, and Don’t Read in Traffic - New York Times
  “beyond an optimum, more multitasking is associated with declining project completion rates and revenue generation.”
  (tags: talent_management productivity)

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• SOA Consortium
  Todd Biske's post on the SOA Consortium "Top 5 Insights" from the SOA Executive Summit
  (tags: soac biske soa bpm)

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• Chief Says F.C.C. Is Against Cellphone Use on Airliners - New York Times
  Common sense from the F.C.C? No cell phone use in the air, and a study/consideration for net neutrality.
  (tags: netneutrality)

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• SOASTA to Provide Industry's First Browser-Based Web UI / Ajax Testing Solution - Press Releases - News & Events - SOASTA
  SOASTA plans to expand its Concerto™ Web testing service to support cross browser Web UI / Ajax testing...SOASTA’s strategy is to provide a single integrated testing environment for automated testing of all Web tiers - message thru UI
  (tags: soasta soa testing ajax)

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• John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies - New York Times
  “You need the willingness to fail all the time,” he said. “You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.”
  (tags: fortran backus innovation)
• Wall Street & Technology : Citigroup Moves to a Large-Scale Grid for High-Performance Computing
  "The emotional and political angles of trying to do this far outweigh the technical impact of trying to do it...Pitching 1,000 to 4,000 boxes together is not difficult...But trying to get a group of 25 applications to stop server hogging is demanding."
  (tags: grid shared_infrastructure citigroup)

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[Updated Friday, March 23, 2007 for links to slides and replay.]

During the last week of February, I facilitated a series of SOA Executive Summits for the SOA Consortium.  The purpose of the Summits was two-fold.  First, was to validate the mission, vision, goals, strategies of the SOA Consortium.  Second, to have a roundtable discussion on the real-world challenges, issues and opportunities discovered by leading SOA adopters.  The attendees were CIOs and CTOs of organizations you would easily recognize. 

As I mentioned last week, I've been under a gag order in respect to the Summit results.  However, that ends Tuesday at 2:00 EDT.  Richard Soley, Executive Director of the SOA Consortium, and I will be presenting the "Top 5 Insights" from the Summits in a webinar.  Having identified the "top 5", I can tell you they aren't the same topics you hear in everyday SOA conversations. 

So, if you have a chance, check out the webinar tomorrow.  We'll be live, which means anything could happen.  Just direct the hard questions at Richard.  After the webinar, I'll add. Link to the slides and replay.

[Disclosure: SOA Consortium is a client of Elemental Links]

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• The Obvious?: The 100% guaranteed easiest way to do Enterprise 2.0?
  which way will you pick? how about your boss?
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• FinancialTech Insider: Event processing gets 'complex'
  the event processing language wars are heating up...see the comments on this post... The contenders: SQL, Rules, Procedural and Visual... Expect to see much more on SQL versus everyone else...
  (tags: cep esp languages)
• The Event Processing Blog
  Relatively New Event Processing Blog from the team at (Progress) Apama... John Bates, Mark Palmer, Chris Martins
  (tags: esp cep apama)
• http://soa.omg.org/SOA-docs/EDA-Standards.htm
  Rhysome's Bob Covington is compiling a list of existing or in process EDA/CEP standards. This is related to the OMG's SOA SIG interests in SOA, EDA and BPM
  (tags: omg soa eda rhysome)

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• Burton: beyond BPEL orchestration, SOA needs choreography
  "Although many people equate orchestration with choreography, they are neither identical nor mutually exclusive." Good description of orchestration vs. choreography in this article (which excerpts a Burton Group report)
  (tags: soa bpel wscdl burton)
• InformationWeek Weblog: WebEx Lets You Access Your PC Through Your Mobile Phone
  "a new partnership between WebEx and SoonR will allow you to use your mobile phone's browser to get into your PC remotely. Some of the nifty features include transferring files, printing and searching your desktop."
  (tags: webex mobility)
• IBM sees green in environmental tech | CNET News.com
  I wonder if green measurements (carbon emissions, water usage) will soon appear on balanced scorecards?
  (tags: green IT ibm)
• InfoQ: 10 Principles of SOA
  "fundamental principles that a Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) should expose.These are not introduced as an absolute truth, but rather as a frame of reference for SOA-related discussions."
  (tags: tilkov soa bestPractices)

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• SOA + CEP = 'a new physics of computing'
  SOA, Events, CEP, and constant data flowing... Yup, all part of an overall architectural fabric/strategy.
  (tags: soa eda cep)
• innoQ Resources: Web Services Standards as of Q1 2007
  New Version of the innoQ Web Services Standards poster. Click on the poster visual to get the PDF.
  (tags: webservices innoQ)
• Telco veteran Borislow targets Vonage, Skype with cheaper service - MarketWatch
  "MagicJack, which plugs into a computer's USB port and can be used with any conventional phone. It's being rolled out today"...29.95-39.95 purchase price; 19.95 *annual* license starting the following year...
  (tags: voip bootstrapping)
• magicJack™
  magicjack website... looks like there will be additional charges for international... launches in April
  (tags: voip magicjack bootstrapping)

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• SOA + CEP = 'a new physics of computing'
  SOA, Events, CEP, and constant data flowing... Yup, all part of an overall architectural fabric/strategy.
  (tags: soa eda cep)

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• http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/printableArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JVSC2JFUJ23NYQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=197007742
  "Wall Street is not prone to being the first to jump on a technology trend. Perhaps ahead of the curve, however, the New York Stock Exchange has taken the migration plunge, embarking on an effort to rid itself of the mainframe."
  (tags: mainframe wallstreet nyse)
• http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=197007738
  "C-level data officer. Bottega...data management into four pillars: remediation (cleaning data, fixing problems or satisfying compliance issues); rationalization ...; automation to minimize all manual processes; and data governance."
  (tags: data management citigroup)

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