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03-06-2006, 15:15
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Michael
Michael Kuhbock
Integration InSite
mkuhbock(at)integrationconsortium.org
Sciences most popular Myths
Water drains backwards in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Earth's rotation
Not only is the Earth's rotation too weak to affect the direction of water flowing in a drain, tests you can easily perform in a few washrooms will show that water whirlpools both ways depending on the sink's structure, not the hemisphere.
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Wipro Acquires U.S. Company
Wipro, the Indian IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) specialist that has in recent years ascended the ladder of global services companies, has acquired a small U.S. consultancy and support player named cMango for $20 million. The size of the acquisition and cMango's own specialty (BMC-focused implementations, training, and support) make it a niche deal whose importance is all in the global context.
http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=7362
BEA Further Extends SOA Market Leadership Into Billion Dollar BPM Software Market; Acquires Top-ranked Fuego
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-01-2006/0004311217&EDATE=
webMethods Names Hisao Shimizu President of webMethods Japan
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-01-2006/0004311047&EDATE=
Sonic Software Announces SOA Management Platform with New Capabilities
Sonic Software Releases Actional 6.0 With Business Process Visibility, Automated Runtime Governance and 'Trust Zones' Security.
http://www.webservices.org/categories/technology/sonic_software_announces_soa_management_platform_with_new_capabilities/(go)/Articles
Views
The 10 Commandments of Enterprise Integration
The integration 10 commandments (plus one) are being developed today by end users of integration technology and services. They are a manifestation of the challenges and issues that have plagued the technical community over the last 50 years.
http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1049386
Software hardsell - how not to get conned by the 'pros'
Software sales vendors may mouth platitudes about how 'customer-centric' they are, but the reality is that aggressive sales tactics are still rampant.
http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/News/e437a6cc-1e2b-42b4-a8c9-5c1207fac243.html
60 percent
Attendees at Gartner's recent application integration and Web services conferences that had not yet adopted Web services and were still studying the feasibility of doing so.
Source: ZDNet
Making Your Case To The Board
Opinion: Virginia Robbins outlines how to make the most of an opportunity to make a presentation to the board of directors.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/329999/951200/10669/0/
Model behavior in SOA
Does the industry need an SOA maturity model? what a maturity model should include and who should be driving it?
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1170106,00.html
Link To Original Article (http://www.integrationconsortium.org/icblog/?postid=114)
Michael
Michael Kuhbock
Integration InSite
mkuhbock(at)integrationconsortium.org
Sciences most popular Myths
Water drains backwards in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Earth's rotation
Not only is the Earth's rotation too weak to affect the direction of water flowing in a drain, tests you can easily perform in a few washrooms will show that water whirlpools both ways depending on the sink's structure, not the hemisphere.
News
Wipro Acquires U.S. Company
Wipro, the Indian IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) specialist that has in recent years ascended the ladder of global services companies, has acquired a small U.S. consultancy and support player named cMango for $20 million. The size of the acquisition and cMango's own specialty (BMC-focused implementations, training, and support) make it a niche deal whose importance is all in the global context.
http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=7362
BEA Further Extends SOA Market Leadership Into Billion Dollar BPM Software Market; Acquires Top-ranked Fuego
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-01-2006/0004311217&EDATE=
webMethods Names Hisao Shimizu President of webMethods Japan
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-01-2006/0004311047&EDATE=
Sonic Software Announces SOA Management Platform with New Capabilities
Sonic Software Releases Actional 6.0 With Business Process Visibility, Automated Runtime Governance and 'Trust Zones' Security.
http://www.webservices.org/categories/technology/sonic_software_announces_soa_management_platform_with_new_capabilities/(go)/Articles
Views
The 10 Commandments of Enterprise Integration
The integration 10 commandments (plus one) are being developed today by end users of integration technology and services. They are a manifestation of the challenges and issues that have plagued the technical community over the last 50 years.
http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1049386
Software hardsell - how not to get conned by the 'pros'
Software sales vendors may mouth platitudes about how 'customer-centric' they are, but the reality is that aggressive sales tactics are still rampant.
http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/News/e437a6cc-1e2b-42b4-a8c9-5c1207fac243.html
60 percent
Attendees at Gartner's recent application integration and Web services conferences that had not yet adopted Web services and were still studying the feasibility of doing so.
Source: ZDNet
Making Your Case To The Board
Opinion: Virginia Robbins outlines how to make the most of an opportunity to make a presentation to the board of directors.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/329999/951200/10669/0/
Model behavior in SOA
Does the industry need an SOA maturity model? what a maturity model should include and who should be driving it?
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1170106,00.html
Link To Original Article (http://www.integrationconsortium.org/icblog/?postid=114)