On the week of 12 July IBM continued to attempt to stimulate service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption by giving developers permission to use any IBM patent related to more than 150 Web services and SOA standards.
In the same manner that they promoted the use of the PC standard by giving away their intellectual knowledge IBM hopes to make themselves the standard for SOA implementation. The profit gained by patented rights will be overshadowed by customer asking for assistance in implementing SOA with IBM technology.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Baseportal web database
Continuing with the research on web databases I looked at Baseportal.
Developed and operated in germany since 1998 already more than 45,000 users. According to a press release the german upper house of parliament, deploy their webpages with baseportal.
It has more than 7.5 million pageviews per month.
Written in Perl the Baseportal program can run on UNIX/Linux/MacOSX as well as Windows9x/NT/2000. Furthermore, data can be transferred from one system to another.baseportal.com itself runs under Linux with Apache/mod_perl.
It is free to use with banners but a server liscence can be purchase for $300 to $1200.
Developed and operated in germany since 1998 already more than 45,000 users. According to a press release the german upper house of parliament, deploy their webpages with baseportal.
It has more than 7.5 million pageviews per month.
Written in Perl the Baseportal program can run on UNIX/Linux/MacOSX as well as Windows9x/NT/2000. Furthermore, data can be transferred from one system to another.baseportal.com itself runs under Linux with Apache/mod_perl.
It is free to use with banners but a server liscence can be purchase for $300 to $1200.
SOA links to mainframe batch systems
Read an article found at http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1264415,00.html?track=sy80 describing the method for wrapping a legacy mainframe application with XML to allow it to play in the SOA world. The legacy application basically reads an XML file for its input and commands and produces another XML file for its output, which is then provided through the SOA wrapper.
SOA Repository
Listened to a podcast on SOA repositories. It explained how they work hand in hand with SOA services. Very good description of the relationship. The podcast can be found at http://media.techtarget.com/audioCast/APP_DEVELOPMENT/SOA_repository_6_18_2007_mixdown.mp3
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