Vincent Partington recently wrote on his blog "before you start writing your own services and your own ESB, have a look at what's available." Vincent point out the challenges of migrating from a home-brew ESBs and recommends against a "not invented here" attitude....

We have all been there, performing the same task over and over again - this is no different when implementing a SOA.  There are many patterns, see www.integrationpatterns.com, that can be implemented plus many techniques to...

We were excited to see Philip Howard's piece on the importance of a common data model. It was heartening to read our convictions about IT architecture espoused by someone with no overt commercial...

Last week I attended the Forrester Enterprise Architect forum and heard a pretty consistent cry from people walking around and stopping at the booth; "How do I implement SOA in a distributed...

It's interesting when you have a shared blog... sometimes coordinating posts with others so there is no talking over each other leads to no one posting. It's especially hard for me, as I'm a "mood poster" - meaning, I post when I'm in the mood. Fortunately, I'm usually in the mood to talk...

There has already been some hype about the audio interview between Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Progress Software, and an industry expert from Gartner, but in case you haven't listened,...

Progress Software participated in ESB CON IV: Enabling Business-Critical Integration and SOA. ESB CON IV is a great way learn from SOA infrastructure experts about how Fortune 1000 companies design, build, and deploy ESBs that reduce risk and increase ROI. During this virtual conference, Jonathan...

Today, Progress Software announced the release of Progress® Sonic™ Deployment Manager (SDM). The Sonic Deployment Manager is an installation and configuration tool that helps project teams streamline incremental development and rollout of large-scale Sonic product deployments. By automating the...

Last week's InfoWorld article, SOA meets open b-to-b integration by Brad Shimmin, couldn’t escape my attention for several reasons. Brad makes the observation that ESB offerings seem to...