There is an ongoing discussion thread on a popular XQuery discussion list. The topic is about how to generate a non-XML result (CSV in the specific case discussed there) from an XQuery. Seems easy, but there are a lot of little...

As I will be attending my first PDC in a few weeks, I'd like to get a feel for when and where the good events are to meet up with people who are on the bleeding edge of all things at this events. Answers please to my email at...

Probably the most common metric used with Service Level Agreement (SLA) for enterprise applications (and SOA infrastructure) is availability.  While my primary interest is in figuring out how to define effective SLAs for distributed, transactional business applications (things like order...

Some replies and comments to my previous blog RIA Rich Clients mainstream in 2-5 years? Progress customers have them since the year 2000! made it clear that the concept of Rich Internet Applications is still...

Do you have the right SOA infrastructure tools in place that will help you achieve better business visibility?

SOA management tools that aid in runtime governance and service quality will help. Listen as Dan Foody describes how a popular industry automobile website had some troubles...

Recently I started reading this Blog entry about LINQ and Entity Framework, and I noticed that the first sentence sounds very similar to what we usually say when we discuss DataDirect...

I was at Software AG's SOA Governance Summit last week and got a chance to see Gartner analyst Frank Kenney give a presentation - on SOA Governance of course.  As always, Frank did a great job - but there is one...

In Today’s post of the XQuery for the SQL programmer series, we’ll discuss parameterized queries.

A SQL statement can include parameter markers, indicating values that your application will specify at...

But, he's said something nice about Progress Actional. He's sharing his perspective on use of intermediaries and monitoring services. He's got a good perspective, because...