Hewlett-Packard stepped up its commitment to the emerging area of service-oriented architecture Monday, announcing consulting and software that draw heavily on its acquisition of Mercury Interactive.
IBM has taken Microsoft to task over its service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, claiming the software maker relied too much on Windows-oriented, proprietary standards.
IT outsourcing company Accenture on Wednesday in the US announced it plans to invest US$450 million over the next three years in the development of service-oriented architecture applications.
SAP and Microsoft on Tuesday announced plans to expand their partnership for Duet software, setting the stage for the next versions of the business applications project.
Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced that it is expanding its partnership with SAP around new services with NetWeaver and service-oriented architecture, and that it has new enterprise solutions in development.
Experts say the time has come for SOA design approaches, which revamp business processes and could change the economics of delivering software.
To move ahead, big software companies are reaching back to a familiar strategy: offering customers a soup-to-nuts "stack" of software products.
Eager for fresh ideas, the stodgy world of enterprise software is adopting technology and marketing from the consumer Web.
PeopleSoft casts aspersions on the flexibility and adaptability of its competitor, SAP. The bombastic rhetoric is a side show, however. The issue for enterprises is which vendor can provide the most reliable, cost-effective solutions.
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