Websphere Partner Gateway enables companies to connect large groups of trading partners to their businesses
and extend internal integration outside the enterprise. This article discusses 15
common problems that can occur during Partner Gateway operations and their solutions.
IBM Buys ILOG, a Business Rules Engine
Geez, I don’t know how I missed this one. ILOG is a business rules engine that can already integrate with WebSphere Process Server so this acquisition makes sense. It’s better than the one bundled with the product and used by more companies. Anyway, I’ll defer to the bloggers of the world who have more industry […]
Gartner Says Worldwide Application Infrastructure and Middleware Market Revenue Increased 13 Percent in 2007
The following is Gartners view of the Application Infrastructure and Middleware market broken down by the big boys: Company 2007 Revenue 2007 Market Share (%) 2006 Revenue 2006 Share (%) 2006-2007 Growth (%) IBM 4,090.3 28.9 3,554.5 28.3 15.1 BEA Systems 1,323.9 9.3 1,224.7 9.8 8.1 Oracle 1,202.7 8.5 1,004.9 8.0 19.7 Sterling Commerce […]
ROFLCon2008: Random Musings About Social Web And Community Building
In case you are out of the loop, ROFLCon 2008 is a day long conference out in Boston where they bring together the owners of the current internet meme phenomenons to talk about the state of internet culture. It’s a very interesting topic and I think, relevant to understanding how you can build a community […]
Impact 2008: SOA Jam – “Foster an External Community for Practitioners”
I’m going to use this post to record the discussion that generated during the Impact 2008 SOA Jam for my idea about “How IBM can foster an external community”. Now that Impact is over, I’d like to keep a copy of it’s point in time, and also allow any future readers to add comments. Foster […]
Impact 2008: SOA Jam – “ESB: Too Many Products, Skill Spread too thin”
I’m going to use this post to record the discussion that generated during the Impact 2008 SOA Jam for my idea about “Too ManyESBs, Skill Spread too thin”. Now that Impact is over, I’d like to keep a copy of it’s point in time, and also allow any future readers to add comments. ESB: Too […]
Impact 2008: Final Day – Blogs
I guess theres generally two days where a lot of activity on a conference will occur: the start and the end. The following is a list of bloggers who have commented on Impact 2008: Jason Hiner: Talking about some of the new tools released. Scott Laningham: An awesome blog with podcasts from all five days […]
Impact 2008: SOA Jam Day 3
So today is apparently the final day of the SOA Jam at Impact 2008. Overall I saw a few overall themes in the ideas: Ideas on how to engage the business with SOA Tons of Ideas on How to create a “Smart SOA” community Ideas for needed case studies mostly from a generic non-provider viewpoint. […]
Impact 2008: Web 2.0 Social Networking Missing In Action
Over a twitter yesterday, James Governor lamented about the lack of official web 2.0 happenings a conference where we’re all talking about mash-ups, integrating communities and mass enablement. IBM’s youTube Channel has a single 1 minute video from day one, theres a twitter account created of the name “Impact2008“* which has no activity. Heck, even […]
Impact 2008: YouTube Participation
Looks like I kind of missed one of the big boys of the internet for coverage of Impact 2008. YouTube actually has a few videos posted: If you like your summaries in ’80s montage’ format, “IBM Impact 2008 Conference – Day 1 Highlights SOA” is the video for you. It’s complete with generic background music […]
Impact 2008: Impressions of Day 2 – SOA Jam
It’s now day two of SOA Jam and it’s has been running for about 48 hours now. While the overall rate remains the same as yesterday, it feels like there’s more going on in the Jam. As of today, we have 44 ideas and 146 comments. It look like the Jam will produce about 20 […]
IBM Partners Blocked from Rational Conference
From the newswire (eWeek), IBM Partners Blocked from Rational Conference. At least one vendor, Genuitec, maker of the MyEclipse IDE (integrated development environment) has said an IBM official called its representative and told them Genuitec was not welcome at the Rational Software Development Conference this year. Another company, AccuRev, which markets software configuration management and […]
Impact 2008: My impressions of Day One – SOA Jam
Seeing how I’m not at Impact 2008, my impressions are going to be more geared towards what I see being said in the blogs, the twitter stream and the participation in the SOA Jam. My first impression comes from the SOA Jam, where I think I’ve posted two pretty good ideas. The first being that […]
Impact 2008: Twitter HashTags.org #impact2008
Shout out to James Taylor who has identified how to follow the tweets that are going on during the conference. I also suggest that people follow Michael Cote on Twitter, I added him to my mobile device updates yesterday afternoon and got about 40 updates so expect to feel like you are there on the […]
Smart Enough Systems Blogging Impact 2008
Just quickie that Smart Enough Systems are also blogging Impact 2008 in depth. Very In depth. Like three articles already posted depth. Good job!
Impact 2008: Dana Gardner and Michael Coté Blogging the Conference
I’m not at Impact, so I’m a little diminished in my capacity to know who’s there, who’s blogging, what’s being talked about or exactly how many boat races Steve Mills can win in a row. Thanks to Michael Coté who is also blogging the conference and has his recap of the first few hours of […]
IBM Impact 2008 – Two Weeks Away
As Impact 2008 rolls around, the blogs are starting to come alive with the sounds of people booking their flights to Vegas. I’ve included a list of some bloggers who will be in attendance: Las Vegas, SOA and me Comming to IMPACT 2008 IMPACT 2008! Techy conference! Jimmy Wales @ Impact 2008 IBM Education Pack […]
Make ‘iWay’ for more WebSphere Adapters!
The WebSphere Journal reports that 35 ‘iWay’ adapters will be a part of WebSphere Integration Developer and WebSphere Process Server. The adapters can be used with: * Amdocs * Ariba * Baan * Broadvision * Clarify * Documentum * i2 * Lawson * Manugistics * MFG/PRO * Microsoft * Retek * TIBCO … The custom […]