As you have probably read in today's press and blogs, Progress is going to acquire IONA.  This is great news and I welcome my new colleagues from IONA.  But what does this mean to our combined customers?  While I am...

If you are looking at the picture above and thinking to yourself, "what does a box of cereal have to do with software," then you might need to spend more time looking at life the way George Carlin did. Carlin, who passed away yesterday, built a...

Modern SOA infrastructure is analogous to our global telecommunications infrastructure. These days, just about everybody (my teenage daughter included) has a cell phone that they can use to connect to someone in Berlin, Bangkok or Beijing. The infrastructure is highly reliable,...

Dan McCreary wrote about his Teaching XSLT vs. Teaching XQuery experience.   At DataDirect we have also good experience teaching XQuery, and a developer with some SQL experience is definitely...

An enterprise service bus (ESB) provides you with interoperability across many distributed, heterogeneous services and systems. Watch the video below and hear Hub Vandervoort tell you more about the power of an ESB and the industry's 1st ESB -...

Today, I write like my colleagues. No humor. No funny title. No family stories. Just boring technology evangelizing.

I apologize.

But, I have something to say, and it can't wait until I think of a funny, but related personal story.

People often ask about policy portability. In...

You may be wondering what the picture at right has to do with the subject of this blog entry. The answer: nothing. It's just a humorous photo that made me smile this morning. I mean, how often do you see kids these days ...

Collisions generally have negative connotations, however in this case it is actually a good thing.

The mainframe world, all too often associated with legacy systems that exist in some dark corner of buildings continues to this day to provide the essential back bone for many corporations...

By now we all know that service-oriented architecture (SOA) isn’t something you buy out of the box. It’s also a long term initiative that involves planning, implementation and fine-tuning. But when budgets are tight, many companies may slow down or even stop their SOA initiatives. Listen to the...