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Two metrics determine how much money Web sites make from advertising: page views and unique visitors. The number and character of "uniques" - - that is, how many separate and […]

Dr. Ambuj Goyal is one of IBM's heavy hitters. A 25-year IBM veteran who joined the company as a researcher at the T. J. Watson Research Center, Goyal did early […]

Pure-play vendors of SOA governance solutions have been dropping like flies: Infravio was bought by webMethods, and Systinet by Mercury Interactive (which was then swallowed by HP). Yet SOA Software, […]

In a little more than a decade, BEA Systems built itself into a top middleware player and one of the leading lights in SOA. That's a good thing. Revenues at […]

Despite today's draconian efforts to cut company costs, one area typically remains out of control: off-purchase order spending. Rearden Commerce's deal last week with American Express could change that. Two […]

Tough business conditions often give rise to ingenious solutions. That was the case at Merrill Lynch several years ago when the economic boom went bust: An urgent desire to reduce […]

Choosing a platform on which to build services is probably the easiest decision IT faces. When cooking up services from scratch, most organizations simply go with their developers' strength, as […]

The care and feeding of services is relatively straightforward. The most confusing SOA decisions involve how services communicate and what sort of mediation should sit between them. In an ideal […]

The question of whether or not to use an ESB devolves to the individual needs and inclinations of each organization. For example, if orchestration of distributed services is a must-have, […]

As enterprises build SOAs, the going is pretty slow, thanks mainly to a vastly increasing number of dependencies. Here's what you can learn from what's happening on the ground Ask […]

And then there were none. Two weeks ago, these pages noted the dwindling number of dedicated SOA registry vendors, amid rapid consolidation in the SOA space. BEA had acquired Flashline, […]

Every industry presents unique challenges, where IT must marshal more than the usual chunk of resources to solve extreme headaches. That may mean walking out to the edge of grid […]

In the past year or so I've gotten an earful from IT managers. Not just the usual e-mail or voice mail, but up-close-and-personal rants at no fewer than six InfoWorld […]

IBM last Thursday extended its run of major acquisitions, agreeing to buy business process and enterprise content management specialist FileNet for approximately $1.6 billion in cash. FileNet's technology will be […]

Oracle's Fusion middleware platform, like the early solar system, has resembled a gaseous cloud, with chunks slowly solidifying into recognizable shapes. A large object from another orbit just joined the […]

In the Jane Austen novel that has become Mercury Interactive's financial story in the past 12 months, it was HP playing the role of Mr. Knightley last month, riding to […]

Why did Hewlett-Packard plunk down $4.5 billion for Mercury Interactive? Two words: Adaptive. Enterprise. That long-standing HP initiative purports to link IT assets directly to business value. Until now, HP […]

Stacks pushed by the software giants may dominate development and deployment of enterprise SOAs. In the realm of runtime service management and security, however, a handful of pure plays still […]

Salesforce.com's summer release is typically an opportunity to hype minor upgrades. But with Microsoft announcing its intention to release an on-demand CRM product last week, are you surprised that there's […]

If an SOA has a hub, it's the registry, because that's where services are exposed. Surprisingly, the top SOA players such as BEA, IBM, and Oracle are better known for […]

When Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim made a triumphant return to the company, his first major act was to introduce a new line of Opteron- based Galaxy servers that earned a […]

Is it Microsoft Office in the browser at last? Ever since Microsoft launched Windows Live, Microsoft watchers have been speculating on when browser-based versions of Office applications would arrive, and […]

By now you've heard all about Vista's delays. Since 2003, we've watched as Vista was kicked, poked, and downsized, with promising stuff such as the revolutionary WinFS file system and […]

What role should the network play in SOA? Every time that question comes up, the answer seems to get longer. A new tool from Reactivity promises to make it longer […]

Suzanne Peck signed on as CTO for Washington, D.C., in summer 1998. At the time, the city had a crazy quilt of 370 obsolete systems and no Y2K program in […]

Scott Metzger, CTO of TrueCredit, calls his early days at the company a "trial by fire." In typical startup fashion, "many promises were being made that couldn't be kept. I […]

During his 10-year stint at RSA security, Andrew Nash worked hard developing identity and access management technologies, wrote a book on PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), and co-authored several security standards. […]

As CTO and vice president of HP's software business, Russell Daniels has a service-oriented perspective normally associated with applications -- rather than, say, his flagship OpenView product. "Historically, the enterprise […]

The top technology slot in the enterprise has changed. Once, forward- looking CTOs and CIOs scanned the horizon for new technologies that would improve the lot of IT. Today, as […]

XML security appliance provider DataPower got gobbled up by IBM last fall, but the role of DataPower's technology in IBM's SOA strategy wasn't clear until last week, when IBM announced […]

The desire to access mainframe data and business logic has inspired many grand tech initiatives, including client-server, XML, and SOA. It's fair to say that most big, mature SOA implementations […]

Nothing in enterprise IT should exist in isolation. That's the big idea underlying SOA -- leverage existing data and application assets by provisioning them as shareable services, and when you […]

SOA pure-plays going like iPods as hunger for complete solutions drives fourth acquisition in seven months By now most big enterprise customers have had their SOA 'aha!' experience. They get […]

Citing an epidemic of 'fat and chatty' enterprise applications from Oracle, SAP, Siebel, and others, Cisco Systems on Monday unveiled a new product called ACE (Application Control Engine) and an […]

IBM sharpened its message about SOA last week with a slew of WebSphere software and services to overcome barriers to SOA success. IBM introduced 11 new products, 20 product enhancements, […]

Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was established in 1989 as the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in software companies. These days, 12 of the 30 companies in Hummer Winblad's […]

In a now legendary 1995 memo, bill Gates raised the alarm that Microsoft was woefully unprepared for what he termed the 'Internet Tidal Wave.' Fast forward 10 years to last […]

The first objection to SaaS, particularly among enterprise IT customers, is that reliability and availability are in someone else's hands. So when Salesforce.com customers experienced significant service disruptions in December […]

For many enterprises, SOA remains stuck at square one. It's one thing to play with Web services, but another to create an agile architecture that spans an organization. Such grand […]

The first installment of Microsoft's Office Live initiative landed in beta form last week. No one really thought an AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) version of MS Office was imminent, […]

iWay software is the Belkin of application adapters, those pieces of software that hook enterprise apps to middleware from the likes of BEA, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sonic, and Sun. As […]

Ever since the web services trend gathered steam, enterprise application vendors, beginning with SAP, have promised to componentize their sprawling ERP, CRM, and SCM (supply chain management) offerings into services […]

Last month, SOA Software -- formerly Digital Evolution -- proudly announced that financial giant Merrill Lynch was a customer. Today, the tables were turned when SOA Software revealed that it […]

What's the ugliest problem in IT? Many would say it's the contradictory or incomplete data strewn around the enterprise in various databases and formats. Reconciling and normalizing all that data […]

When a few minutes of downtime can mean thousands of lost transactions and millions in lost revenue, you'd better have a disaster recovery plan. MoneyGram, a global payment services company, […]

What a letdown. When word began circulating that Google and Sun Microsystems were poised to make a joint announcement, speculation abounded that Sun's StarOffice (or its lesser open source sibling, […]

What separates enterprise apps from desktop apps? Mainly, business rules and workflow. At its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) last week, Microsoft announced WWF (Windows Workflow Foundation), a Windows technology that […]

This is the second issue of InfoWorld in a matter of months with an SOA (service-oriented architecture) cover story. I'll have to take at least some of the blame for […]

Some people enjoy a good fight; others would prefer to look the other way. One thing is certain, though: If you have a stake in that fight, you'll watch the […]

The surprise beta release of Microsoft's WinFS file system on Monday has attracted intense scrutiny. WinFS was one of the three pillars of Microsoft's next-generation version of Windows announced two […]