Progress Software's Sonic Software division is weighing up offering its enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture and reference model as the basis for an industry standard.
BEA Systems is eyeing off further acquisitions as uptake of its service-oriented architecture (SOA) products slowly expands in the Asia-Pacific region.
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.
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.
Boeing's Australian manufacturing subsidiary Hawker de Havilland has turned to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to help it meet the challenge of producing key components for the forthcoming 787 "Dreamliner" aircraft.
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Many Web 2.0 technologies and functions fall under the umbrella of KM: wikis for collaboration; tagging and "folksonomy", which is known to the fuddy-duddies as taxonomy; and blogging, which behind the firewall would otherwise be known as intranet publishing.
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Because SOA, Web Services and XML share the essential qualities of their long-lived predecessors, they will not only survive, but have the potential to change the way that systems are built and connected.
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