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control of MySQL. With the MySQL team out of the company and the code base forking, there's very little leverage other than professional services," wrote Miko Matsumura, vice president and deputy CTO of Software AG, on his blog. Oracle provides almost no leverage in professional services compared to IBM."

Naturally there is some controversy given the fact that Oracle is a big database More...

Tony Baer did not see great benefit for IBM in this proposed acquisition. ''Sun has been approaching various suitors over the past few months as it requires an exit strategy, '' Baer wrote on his OnStrategies Perspectives blog. "But Sun will be a waste of IBM's money, not to mention the time spent digesting a large acquisition of questionable added value."

Baer suggested that Sun long ago in More...

including clarified and cleaned up message property scopes and precedence; simplified endpoint configuration and improved and expanded documentation, says blogger Jackie Wheeler on the "From the Mule's Mouth" blog.

Software AG has announced the release of its new SaaS product, AlignSpace. AlignSpace is a platform that offers collaboration for project participants in a More...

of the Web.

Eric Newcomer is a distributed computing specialist and independent consultant. Newcomer is a chair of the OSGi Alliance Enterprise Expert Group and former CTO of IONA Technologies. He writes a blog on OSGi matters. REST based transactions assume that only one party to a global transaction accesses the shared state at any given time, sort of like passing a More...

way the stories are told. Blogs today are often the main way news is conveyed. In the SOA segment especially, 'thought leaders' have used the medium to shape the way SOA is discussed.

Did you know SearchSOA.com sports its own blog? It is called SOA Talk, and that is what it is, although we take occasion from time to time to touch on topics that border of SOA, while still adhering to the general task More...

The Object Management Group's (OMG) SOA Consortium today announced a new blog to promote the business benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA). The "SOA Consortium Insights" blog will be written by consortium members who will promote "the value and attainment of business-driven SOA More...

In this Blog, Adam Bosworth examines REST and how this architectural style fits into the world of Web services More...

In this Blog, the author examines REST and how this architectural style fits into the world of Web services More...

In response to a blog yesterday which claimed SOA would dwarf all IT projects and prove itself to be a busy CIO guillotine, a reader responds that SOA implementations should be taken in measured steps and focus on future needs More...

The most recent entry on TheServerSide.com Interoperability blog focuses on the practical interaction between Java's latest standard for defining Web services, the Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS), and Microsoft's Windows Communication Framework (WCF). In the example given on the More...