The publication of the Open Cloud Manifesto is positive.  The Cloud, driven by virtualization, is surfacing at the right time in the market and can advance computing in this generation.       The concept of "openness" is necessary for innovation to thrive.  Publishing an open view with multiple and varied participants is an example of global lifecycle transformation where organizations work together across boundaries.     IBM, one of the key supporters of the Open Cloud Manifesto, has a long history of advancing collaboration around new technologies.  In the 90's, IBM attempted collaboration by creating consortium style companies such as Taligent and Kaleida.  In the early part of this century, IBM was the leader of what has transformed in to Eclipse.org.  This appears to be IBM's attempt to get agreement on the Cloud at various levels.     It is clear that each organ... (more)

Cloud Computing Bootcamp Continues Today at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

Register Now for Cloud Computing Bootcamp 2012 Silicon Valley and Save! Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering? The "super-sized" four-day Cloud Computing Bootcamp that continues today at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley is a brief introduction to Enterprise-level cloud computing carefully created and devised to help you keep up with evolving trends like Big Data, PaaS, APIs, Mobile, Social and Data Analytics. This time the emphasis is especially strong on Cloud in the Enterprise. Solutions built around Social, Mobile, Analystic and Cloud (SMAC) require a sound cloud computing infrastructure to be successful while helping customers harvest real benefits from this transformational change that is happening in the IT ecosystem. Now "super-sized" to 4 Days! View the full Bootcamp Agenda here Cloud Computing Bootcamp, led Nov 5-... (more)

[video] Democratization of Technology with @FlyingTech_Das | @CloudExpo #Cloud

"Vicom Computer Services is a service provider and a value-added reseller and we provide technology solutions, infrastructure solutions, security and management services solutions," stated Amitava Das, Chief Technology Officer at Vicom Computer Services, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 16th Cloud Expo, held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City. Register FREE Before Friday! ▸ Here Your registration includes: ▸ Cloud Expo sessions ▸ Big Data Expo sessions ▸ @ThingsExpo sessions ▸ DevOps sessions ▸ Containers sessions ▸ Microservices sessions The World's Largest Cloud Computing Event, November 3-5 at the Santa Clara Convention Center! Cloud computing budgets worldwide are reaching into the hundreds of billions of dollars, and no organization can survive long without some sort of cloud migration strategy. Each month brings new announcements, use cases, a... (more)

WSJ-IN Exclusive: IBM Responds to Latest Microsoft Jabs at WebSphere 4.0 Microsoft Missing the Point, Says IBM Program Direct

Exclusive to Web Services Journal Industry Newsletter, here’s the latest fiery rebuttal in the red-hot IBM vs Microsoft debate that’s been raging on the Internet over the superiority of their respective platforms for creating Web services. Stefan Van Overtveldt, program director, WebSphere Technical Marketing, IBM, holds that Microsoft’s original white paper belittling WebSphere 4.0 was fatally flawed from the start due to its premise, which in his words, “is missing the point.” Before Van Overtveldt’s complete response, WSJ-IN reviews highlights of the verbal battle’s progress to date: Microsoft launched the initial salvo in the Internet war, with a white paper that compared creation of Web services (using the PetStore.com scenario) using Visual Studio.NET versus IBM WebSphere v4.0. To support their claim that .NET has a significant advantage over WebSphere, Micro... (more)

W3C Director Berners-Lee Confirms That Web Services Can Save Businesses Money During the Economic Downturn

(August 1, 2002) When no less a person than the 'Father' of the World Wide Web says that Web services isn't a philosopher's stone, but can nonetheless help businesses during an economic downturn, the business and Internet technology worlds do well to sit up and take note. Especially when he goes on to speak enthusiastically of the role that Web services is playing in the improvement of existing technologies like his own brainchild, HTTP. It was while speaking at an East Coast technology conference last week that Tim Berners-Lee used the opportunity to underline how in his view what's revolutionary about Web services isn't the technology itself, but rather the way that Web services is being used to solve existing problems with existing solutions like XML and HTTP, which he referred to as "the building blocks of the Web." Berners-Lee, the Oxford-educated physicist who ... (more)

Novell to Implement Emerging BPEL Specification for Web Services Orchestration

(May 6, 2003) - Novell today announced plans to implement the emerging Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) specification in a future release of its Novell exteNd Composer Process Manager, the business process manager that ships with Novell's Web application development product suite, Novell exteNd. Previously the work of a few independent vendors, BPEL for Web services was recently submitted to OASIS for development and Novell will be playing an active role in shaping the emerging standard as a member of the BPEL technical committee. Novell's implementation of the BPEL specification will follow the standard's release from OASIS. The company has already delivered the first commercially available Business Process Manager based on WSFL - a predecessor to BPEL. ... (more)

Final Answer

Recently, I've been seeing some chatter around adding a programmatic aspect to Web services that is currently not part of the specifications - namely, adding object orientation (in particular inheritance, although I'm sure polymorphism is implied). I've thought about this, and I think it's a bad idea. I have a lot of experience in object-oriented coding and design, from C++ and Java as well as in some languages where it was bolted on, like PowerBuilder (yes folks, at one point Powerbuilder was not object oriented). And although I can see advantages to the concepts of inheritance and polymorphism in a general purpose programming language, I don't see the same advantages in a non-programmatic, descriptive system where the main reason for existence is to create an abstracted, easily callable API regardless of platform, language, or software. From my point of view, W... (more)

Identity Management: Liberty Alliance Releases v2.0 of ID-WSF

Web Services Edge 2005 Session on Identity-Driven Computing "Successful identity management has become a critical factor in application development and the necessary foundation for deploying all Web services," said George Goodman, president of Liberty Alliance's management board and director of Intel's Visualization and Trust Lab, as the Alliance - the global consortium for open federated identity standards and identity-based Web services - today announced the public draft release of ID-WSF 2.0, a second-generation framework for identity-based Web services. The publicly available framework has been extended to include support for SAML 2.0, specifically defining how SAML 2.0 assertions can be used to communicate identity information among identity-based Web services. Today's news reflects the ongoing cooperation Liberty Alliance maintains with OASIS and other global s... (more)

Is 2005 The Year of SOA? "Absolutely," Says Parasoft Exec - Live on SYS-CON.TV

Three and a half years ago, when Parasoft first launched SOAPtest, there were very few large scale production Web services in deployment, David McCaw, Manager of Web Services Solutions for Parasoft explained to SYS-CON.TV (http://www.sys-con.tv) in an interview at Web Services Edge 2005 about the remarkable success story that Parasoft has been in the Web services testing space, following on from its preeminence in the Java testing market where Jtest has flourished from its inception to Jtest 6.0 which was released in conjunction with Web Services Edge 2005 in Boston.  "By having a product commercially available at that time," he continued, "we were able to align ourselves with some of the large early adopters and build a strategy that's supportive not just to the individual developer but to the enterprise as a whole and to build a testing platform robust enough to s... (more)

CalAmp Works With Wireless SOA Customers

CalAmp , which is sponsoring the SOA Web Services Edge conference and exhibition in New York Jun3 5-6, brings more than 20 years of technology and industry experience to providing solutions to the wireless and communications worlds, the company says. Company engineers and consultants work closely with customers to plan, solve and anticipate every aspect of technology deployment, the company says to "produce dynamic applications and products from hardware devices to software applications to mobility solutions, creating communications that enable our customers to gain a competitive advantage." The company says it works with a wide variety of clients, "to provide an integrated approach to help our clients realize their vision, and select the right technology to dramatically transform and accelerate their business...whether a customer requires one single solution or ent... (more)

Solstice Software Joins SOA Link to Help Define SOA Test Quality

Solstice Software, the leader in end-to-end integration and SOA testing, announced that the company has joined SOA Link, a new multi-vendor SOA governance and interoperability initiative established in May. Solstice will support SOA Link's mission by jointly identifying governance and testing use cases with the other SOA Link members. Solstice Software provides Solstice Integra Suite, an automated end-to-end integration and SOA testing tool for large, complex systems. Integra Suite reduces the time, cost, and complexity of SOA and Web services testing, validates the functionality of IT systems, and better aligns them to business processes and objectives-a key goal of lifecycle governance. "With SOA Link, we see the convergence and alignment of registry and change management, with high-quality integration and SOA testing initiatives," says Chris Benedetto, vice presi... (more)