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This is an archive of recent news, articles, and commentary on service-oriented architecture, Web services, and related technologies.

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Ninja Blocks integrates your household items with web services
While an air freshener that only releases its smell when you get a mention on social media sites can seem cool, perhaps you want something a little more straightforward to keep in you control, without having to reach for your cellphone, or computer, or even get out of your chair.
February 3, 2012, "web services" - Yahoo! News Search Results

WCI Consulting Launches Instant Access to Provide Instant BI Mentorship for End-Users
WCI Consulting, a leading business intelligence consulting firm, today launched Instant Access, a new service that offers instant BI knowledge and instruction for end-users of
February 2, 2012, "business intelligence" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Research and Markets: Enterprise BI Architecture Groups: The Key to Effective Agile Data Warehousing
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Enterprise BI Architecture Groups: The Key to Effecti
February 2, 2012, "agile development" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Evolven Joins Amazon Web Services Solution Provider Program to Ensure Smooth Transitions to Cloud Services and Prevent ...
Amazon Web Services includes Evolven’s change and configuration monitoring software to improve stability, performance and availability of Amazon customer cloud servicesJersey City, NJ (PRWEB) February 02, 2012 Evolven Software Inc. (http://www.evolven.com) a leading provider of Cloud Configuratio...
February 2, 2012, "web services" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Mobile Business Intelligence on the Rise
The explosion of mobile device usage and the propagation of powerful smartphones and tablet computers have become the catalysts for business intelligence to expand to mobile as well. When I look back to those years when smartphones were yet to be invented, I can’t help but be in awe of how this m...
February 2, 2012, "business intelligence" - Yahoo! News Search Results

DevOps Dossier: Fabric Engine
Editor’s note: DevOps Dossier is a new feature that highlights the tools, people and companies that make-up the emerging DevOps culture. Stories cross agile development practices with enterprise class, mission critical operations standards. Fabric Engine is a multithreading engine that … Continue...
February 1, 2012, "agile development" - Yahoo! News Search Results

IXIASOFT Announces the Availability of DITA CMS v3.4
MONTREAL, CANADA-- - IXIASOFT, the XML component content management market leader, announced today the availability of the IXIASOFT DITA CMS v3.4. With full support of DITA 1.2 features, the DITA CMS continues ...
February 1, 2012, "xml database" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Marias Technology and NAMIC Web Services Sign Referral Agreement
Marias Technology, of Piqua, Ohio, announced today the signing of a referral agreement with NAMIC Web Services of Indianapolis, Indiana. Marias Technology offers technology services such as system hosting, management, and testing, focusing on the insurance industry.
February 1, 2012, "web services" - Yahoo! News Search Results

WSO2 Workshop on Architectural Approaches to Implementing ESBs for Enterprise Application Integration Comes to New York
One-day workshop offers IT professionals real-world best practices for using an ESB model to implement a service broker pattern within an SOA.Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) February 01, 2012 Today, enterprise application integration (EAI) best practices are based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) pri...
February 1, 2012, "service-oriented architecture" - Yahoo! News Search Results

QlikTech Named Top Business Intelligence Provider in Consumer Goods Technology Magazine’s 2012 Readers’ Choice Survey
QlikTech, a leader in Business Discovery – user-driven Business Intelligence , today announced it has been named a leading business intelligence provider in Consumer Goods Technology magazine 2012 Readers’ Choice Survey for the third consecutive year.
February 1, 2012, "business intelligence" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Mobile Business Intelligence Entering the Mainstream Through Apps
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Jaspersoft, the world's most widely used business intelligence (BI) platform , today revealed how enterprises are both realizing the benefits of mobile BI and ...
February 1, 2012, "business intelligence" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Amazon Web Services hosts more than 762 billion objects in S3
The total number of objects stored on Amazon Web Services nearly tripled between 2010 and 2011.
January 31, 2012, "web services" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Microsoft pivots toward business intelligence
The goal is to make business intelligence accessible "to the masses" Visit website for full story...
January 31, 2012, "business intelligence" - Yahoo! News Search Results

SmartBear CodeCollaborator 7.0 Transforms the Agile Code Review Process
SmartBear Software today announced Code Collaborator™ 7.0, a major release that makes peer code review more productive and automated than ever before. Featuring revamped navigation
January 31, 2012, "agile development" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Actuate BIRT’s Unified Business Intelligence Environment Delivers Greater Value to End-Users According to Dresner ...
Actuate Corporation , the people behind BIRT® and the leader in open source business intelligence , today released the key points of a Special Report from indepen
January 31, 2012, "business intelligence" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Even the best patching programs probably miss this
We like to think our data center configuration and patch management practices are pretty businesslike and solid, right? Well, in at least one very important aspect, almost all of us are essentially asleep at the wheel, folks. Sure, most data centers have honed their patch management over the year...
January 30, 2012, "application server" - Yahoo! News Search Results

More Business Intelligence Moving to the Cloud: Survey
In our current hyper-competitive global economy, business intelligence and analytics stand out as tools and technologies that can help organizations keep ahead of markets while keeping in tune with customers. That's why a lot of investments are being poured into BI and analytics, and that's why t...
January 30, 2012, "business intelligence" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Creating Native Web Services in SQL Server
If you are a .NET developer, by this time you probably worked with ASP.NET Web Services. However, ASP.NET is not the only framework that allows you to develop web services. SQL Server 2005 and 2008, for example, allow you to create web services.
January 27, 2012, "web services" - Yahoo! News Search Results

John Deere plows into agile
John Deere & Co., has moved about 800 software developers into an agile development process, and did so in just over a year.
January 26, 2012, "agile development" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Ruby, PHP, .NET platforms show various advantages for PaaS development
As application development has pushed past Web applications and into PaaS development, various Web-oriented development languages have taken the fore.
January 25, 2012, SearchSOA: News on SOA, EAI, Web services

Amazon Web Services moves backups to the cloud
Amazon Web Services has launched a public beta test of AWS Storage Gateway, which allows enterprises to back up application data in Amazon's cloud using a software appliance, the company said on Tuesday.
January 25, 2012, "web services" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Amazon Web Services Moves Backups to Cloud With New Appliance
Amazon Web Services has launched a public beta test of AWS Storage Gateway, which allows enterprises to back up application data in Amazon's cloud using a software appliance.
January 25, 2012, "web services" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Sansay Successfully Completes Interoperability With BroadSoft's BroadWorks Platform
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Sansay ™ Inc., a leading provider of high performance IP communications infrastructure, announced today the interoperability of the Sansay VSXi Session Border Controller with the BroadWorks® voice application server provided by...
January 25, 2012, "application server" - Yahoo! News Search Results

MicroStrategy Recognizes Excellence in Enterprise-Class Business Intelligence
MIAMI, Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR - News), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today recognized six companies for achieving outstanding ...
January 25, 2012, "business intelligence" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Amazon Web Services Announces AWS Storage Gateway to Connect Enterprise Data with the Cloud
Amazon Web Services LLC , an Amazon.com company , today announced the AWS Storage Gateway, a service that provides enterprises with a new option to securely upload data to the AWS cloud for scalable, reliable, cost-effective storage.
January 25, 2012, "web services" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Microsoft set to launch SQL Server 2012 on March 7
Microsoft has announced a March 7 online event for the launch of SQL Server 2012, the next generation of its database product.
January 24, 2012, Computerworld Databases News

WSO2 Presents Two Technical Webinars on Business Activity Monitoring Best Practices Using WSO2 BAM 2.0
Free WSO2 webinars will show IT professionals how to use significant new functionality in the upcoming WSO2 BAM 2.0 release to optimize business activity and KPI monitoringPalo Alto, CA (PRWEB) January 24, 2012 Business activity monitoring (BAM) provides real-time visibility into the processes, t...
January 24, 2012, "service-oriented architecture" - Yahoo! News Search Results

ZapThink to Offer Enterprise Cloud Computing Training Worldwide
One and Two Day Courses in London, Singapore, Australia, and IndiaMCLEAN, VA (PRWEB) January 24, 2012 Today, ZapThink, a Dovèl Technologies Company, a global Enterprise Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Cloud Computing advisory, training, and thought leadership firm, announced that...
January 24, 2012, "service-oriented architecture" - Yahoo! News Search Results

MicroStrategy Announces Teradata Support for Business Intelligence Cloud
MIAMI, Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR - News), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, and Teradata, the leading analytic data solutions company, ...
January 24, 2012, "business intelligence" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Business Intelligence Tools Launched by DSPanel Offer the First Natively Multitenant Business Intelligence Suite for ...
With the addition of the new business intelligence tools for OS X support into Performance Canvas Studio, DSPanel is ensuring that no business user gets left behind the business intelligence revolution.Los Altos, CA (PRWEB) January 24, 2012 DSPanel today announced that they are extending native s...
January 24, 2012, "business intelligence" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Agile development of real-time systems
In this Product How-To Henk Muller of XMOS uses the company’s dual Xcore architecture to illustrate his argument that given a predictable underlying processor architecture, agile development is very well suited to real-time software. View the full article HERE .
January 23, 2012, "agile development" - Yahoo! News Search Results

CIOsynergy Confirms CollabNet As Official Sponsor For directIT Chicago 2012 Event
The CIOsynergy team proudly announces CollabNet the leader in Agile Development to sponsor directIT Chicago February 9, at the Trump Hotel & Tower in Chicago.Chicago, IL (PRWEB) January 19, 2012 CollabNet is the recognized leader in leveraging collaboration, Agile methods, and Cloud computing to ...
January 19, 2012, "agile development" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Report: Open Source Application Servers Are More Prevalent Than You Think
OSTATIC: "According to research from app monitoring firm New Relic, open source Java application servers own a serious chunk of overall application server usage."
January 19, 2012, "application server" - Yahoo! News Search Results

WSO2 Brings Technical Workshops on Enterprise Governance for On-Premise and the Cloud to London, Stockholm, Paris and ...
Service-oriented architecture governance allows businesses to effectively manage the consistency, predictability, change and interdependencies of services. By attending the WSO2 workshop, “Governing the Enterprise: On-Premise & Cloud,” IT architects, developers and managers can gain insights into...
January 19, 2012, "service-oriented architecture" - Yahoo! News Search Results

LCMS Software leverages Agile Development model.
Targeting corporate, publishing, and academic markets, Xyleme LCMS 3.5 includes support for Common Cartridge 1.1 IMS academic standard. Program offers performance support outputs with custom branding, filtered authoring views for rapid content updates, and user interface for web-based review and ...
January 19, 2012, "agile development" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Amazon Web Services Launches Amazon DynamoDB – A New NoSQL Database Service Designed for the Scale of the Internet
Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company , today announced the launch of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides extremely fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability.
January 18, 2012, "web services" - Yahoo! News Search Results

IBM to help shape bank SOA standards
IBM has joined the independent BIAN board, which seeks to establish a service-oriented architecture (SOA) standard for the banking industry that can help cut IT costs.
January 16, 2012, "service-oriented architecture" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Amazon Web Services Adds Microsoft Windows Server Instances to Free Usage Tier
Amazon Web Services LLC , an Amazon.com company , today announced that customers can now run their Microsoft Windows Server applications within the AWS Free Usage Tier – a program designed to help new AWS customers get started in the cloud.
January 16, 2012, "web services" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Torry Harris to hire 400 in H1
Torry Harris Business Solutions (THBS), a US-based IT services firm specialising in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), mobile applications development and cloud integration is recruiting over 400 people in the first half of 2012, spurred by the success of its initiatives in the integration, SOA...
January 13, 2012, "service-oriented architecture" - Yahoo! News Search Results

State of Kansas legacy renewal employs SOA; supports various business rules systems
SOA design underpins a business rules-based benefits management system that connects with legacy back-ends.
January 11, 2012, SearchSOA: News on SOA, EAI, Web services

eApps Hosting Announces Support for JBoss 7 Java Application Server
eApps Hosting announced support today for JBoss 7 in a Virtual Machine in the Cloud hosting service. JBoss 7 is the latest version of the popular Java application server by the JBoss Community. eApps Hosting customers can create a custom Xen based Virtual Machine in the Cloud with a pre-installed...
January 11, 2012, "application server" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Announcing Xyleme LCMS 3.5, New Features for Corporate, Publishing and Academic Markets
Xyleme, Inc., the leading provider of 100% XML and standards-based learning content management and mobile learning solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Xyleme LCMS 3.5.
January 10, 2012, "agile development" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Server wars: Open-source Java vs Weblogic and WebSphere
A new survey suggests that proprietary Java application servers are losing to open source in the cloud age.
January 10, 2012, "application server" - Yahoo! News Search Results

FBI's Troubled Sentinel Project Delayed Again
gManZboy writes "The FBI's Sentinel project, a digital case-management system meant to replace outdated, paper-based processes, has been delayed again. The FBI's CIO and CTO bet big on using agile development to hasten the project's completion. But now performance issues have arisen in testing an...
January 9, 2012, "agile development" - Yahoo! News Search Results

European and Indian system developers join forces
The European Commission is supporting an effort to bring coordinated IT research and development between Europe and India in areas like virtualisation and grid computing.
January 7, 2012, "grid computing" - Yahoo! News Search Results

Top five ESB and application integration articles from 2011
As we reflect on the top news in ESBs from 2011, we see that the ESB is not solely associated with SOA, but with EAI designs as well.
December 27, 2011, SearchSOA: News on SOA, EAI, Web services

SaaS provider hooks frats to Facebook with help from SOA appliances
SaaS provider OmegaFi has found a way to provide simpler information management. Their system includes a SOA appliance that provides security and federation.
December 2, 2011, SearchSOA: News on SOA, EAI, Web services

Gartner AADI 2011: Manes says software architecture must change
Application infrastructure must change to support varied clients and an abundance of programmable Web interfaces, said SOA notable Anne Manes.
December 1, 2011, SearchSOA: News on SOA, EAI, Web services

OAuth protocol gains for securing Web services authorization
OAuth (Open Authorization) allows Web application users to move from site to site without an additional login. It has gained exceptional attention of late in the world of services and security.
November 17, 2011, SearchSOA: News on SOA, EAI, Web services

SOA mainframe migration issues in the City of Inglewood, CA
Taking legacy applications off the mainframe and updating them with Java or .NET is a tempting idea, but the process may not be as easy as it seems.
November 8, 2011, SearchSOA: News on SOA, EAI, Web services

Members Approve OpenDocument Format (ODF) Version 1.2 as OASIS Standard
Boeing, Fedict, IBM, Microsoft, Nokia, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, U.S. Department of Defense, and Others Advance Open Format for Office Applications 5 Oct 2011--Members of the OASIS international standards consortium have approved version 1.2 of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as an...
October 5, 2011,

The agile upside of XML
Frankfurt TOC presenters Anna von Veh, a consultant at Say Books, and Mike McNamara, managing director at Araman Consulting Ltd & Outsell-Gilbane UK Affiliate, discuss xml workflows, the (sorry) state of ebook design, and how books and the web will evolve.
October 3, 2011, O'Reilly News: XML

XML Schema development approaches
The way that people approach developing schemas has evolved over the years: each new approach grows out of problems with the status quo (see Hegelian dialectic) but enriches rather than supplants. I thought I would take a little walk through...
August 8, 2011, O'Reilly News: XML

OASIS Advances S-RAMP to Promote Interoperability of SOA Repositories
Active Endpoints, HP, IBM, Primeton Technologies, Red Hat, SOA Software, Software AG, TIBCO, and Others Collaborate to Enable Data Sharing Across SOA Repositories from Different Vendors Boston, MA, USA; 2 March 2011 – The OASIS international open standards consortium has gathere...
March 2, 2011,

Australian Whole-of-Government Common Operating Environment Policy and OOXML
Two big stories this week: AGIMO's COE and LibreOffice. AGIMO is the Australian Government Information Management Office. They are the ones who set policies such as requiring govt web page meet the W3C's WCAG 2.0 guidelines for accessibility, or that...
January 28, 2011, O'Reilly News: XML

XSPA Profile of WS-Trust for Healthcare Receives Approval as OASIS Standard
IBM, Avaya, Cisco, Jericho Systems, Red Hat, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and Others Define Profile to Enable Interoperable Exchange of Healthcare Privacy Policies and Consent Directives Boston, MA, USA; 16 December 2010 – The OASIS open standards consortium today announ...
December 16, 2010,

Members Approve Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Version 1.2 as OASIS Standard
IBM, ISIS Papyrus America, Microsoft, and Adobe, Boeing, Cisco, Citrix, Comtech, Intel, Nokia, Oracle, PTC, Quark, SAP, SDL, US Department of Defense, U.S. Veterans Health Administration, and Others Advance Open Standard for Content Reuse and Multi-Channel Delivery Boston, MA, U...
December 14, 2010,

Understanding C#: Simple LINQ to XML examples (tutorial)
XML is one of the most popular formats for files and data streams that need to represent complex data. The .NET Framework gives you some really powerful tools for creating, loading, and saving XML files. And once you've got your hands on XML data, you can use LINQ to query anything from data that...
October 16, 2010, O'Reilly News: XML

Under-estimating XML as just a Tree
Programmers and academics often think and theorize about XML as kind of tree data structure. And so indeed it is. But it also allows much more: it is a series of different graph structures composed into or imposed on that tree.
October 9, 2010, O'Reilly News: XML

How to Install MongoDB
In this excerpt from MongoDB: The Definitive Guide we offer a step by step guide on how to install MongoDB and get it up and running smoothly. Precompiled binaries are available for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and Solaris. On most platforms you can download the archive from mongodb.org, inflate it...
September 16, 2010, O'Reilly News: XML

OASIS WS-Calendar Committee Addresses Need for Precise, Secure Exchange of Scheduling Data in Smart Grid and Other Applications
WS-Calendar Adapts Human Scheduling Standards for Web Services Boston, MA, USA; 13 September 2010 — The OASIS international consortium has formed the Web Services Calendar (WS-Calendar) Technical Committee to adapt existing calendaring standards (those used in human interaction...
September 12, 2010,

Vale Java? Scala Vala palava
Dave Megginson (who drove the development of the SAX API that will be familiar to many XML developers who use Java) recently wrote Java is dead. Java stood out as a programming language (though not as a platform) in that...
August 28, 2010, O'Reilly News: XML

Deliberate non-conformances in XML Schema implementations
From SAXON's Michael Kay, on the XML-DEV mail list today: On interoperability, there are at least three reasons why you might get different results from different processors. One is because the specification leaves the behaviour of certain things implementation-defined (for...
August 5, 2010, O'Reilly News: XML

Schema languages as if annotation mattered
In 2001 we had an interesting exchange about schema languages on the XML-DEV mail list. I had written Are we losing out because of grammars?. What do I think of it now? Four heads: disconnection, importance, a category error, and operator grammars.
July 26, 2010, O'Reilly News: XML

WS-I Transitions to OASIS
Group Furthering Best Practices for Web Services Interoperability Continues Work as Part of International Open Standards Consortium Wakefield, MA, USA; 22 July 2010 — Today the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I; http://www.ws-i.org) announced its decision to tran...
July 21, 2010,

Highly Generic Schemas
Developer Christophe Lauret recently commented: "A schema is like an aircraft: it can be designed for stability or maneuverability but not both." I recently have been trying a different method for designing intermediate schemas in publication chains. It is an exercise in taking the three-layer mo...
July 7, 2010, O'Reilly News: XML

ODF and OOXML Translation: Working Draft 2 of ISO technical report out
The gnomes of ISO (err, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 WG5) have released the second draft of their Technical Report comparing ODF and OOXML (PDF). It is up to 126 pages now, and much more fleshed out than the first draft. One...
June 28, 2010, O'Reilly News: XML

Is ZIP in the public domain or not?
What is the IP status of ZIP? This is a question of interest to standardizers and developers implementing standards, because so many new standards use ZIP. ODF and OOXML for example. Here is what the current PKWARE site says (with...
June 22, 2010, O'Reilly News: XML

Understanding C#: XML Comments
As C# developers get more experienced, there are a lot of things they pick up along the way that are really useful and important to know, even if they aren't necessarily directly code-related. One of those topics is XML comments, and I've been surprised at how many developers -- even really exper...
June 14, 2010, O'Reilly News: XML

Ruby Schematron
Francesco Lazzarino has a project up at RubyForge for a Ruby runner for ISO Schematron. (Open source: MIT/ Consortium License) Schematron is a small ISO-standard language for making assertions or reports about patterns in and between XML documents, typically using...
June 3, 2010, O'Reilly News: XML

Four short links: 1 June 2010
XML in Legislature/Parliament Environments (Sean McGrath) -- quite detailed background on the use of XML in legislation drafting systems, and the problems caused by convention in that world--page/line number citations, in particular. (Quick gloat: NZ's legislature management system is kick-ass, a...
June 1, 2010, O'Reilly News: XML

Harmonization
It strikes me that harmonization of XML standards (i.e. where you have different XML standards covering much the same ground and you want a workable strategy for converging them) needs to be as much concerned with granularity issues as it...
May 4, 2010, O'Reilly News: XML

OASIS Members Form Committee to Define Transaction Standards for Smart Grid
IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, CPower, EnerNOC, Google, Grid Net, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), TIBCO, and Others Collaborate on Open Standards for Energy Providers and Consumers Boston, MA, USA; 25 August 2009 — The in...
August 24, 2009,

OASIS Members Approve WS-DD Standards to Enable Secure Web Service Discovery and Control of Networked Devices
Microsoft, CA, Novell, Progress Software, Red Hat, Ricoh, Software AG, and Others Advance WS Standards for Mobile Computing, Smart Buildings, Consumer Electronics, and Office Applications Boston, MA, USA; 21 July 2009 — OASIS, the international open standards consortium, today ...
July 20, 2009,

OASIS Members Approve Nine Web Services Standards
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Axway, BMC, CA, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Intel, NEC, NeuStar, Nokia, Nortel, Novell, Progress Software, Red Hat, Ricoh, SAP, SOA Software, Software AG, TIBCO, VeriSign, US Veterans Health Administration and Others Advance Standards for Reliable Messaging,...
February 4, 2009,

OASIS Members Form Committee to Address Gaps in SOA Standards for Telecommunications
Microsoft, Primeton, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, BT, HP, Nortel, Telecom Italia, NEC, and Others Collaborate to Help Telecoms Offer Secure, Intelligent Services Boston, MA, USA; 27 January 2009 — The international open standards consortium, OASIS, has formed a new group to extend th...
January 26, 2009,

OASIS Members Form Committee to Advance Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) as an Open Standard
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Alfresco, Booz Allen Hamilton, EMC, Magnolia, Nuxeo, Open Text, Quark, SAP, Saperion, Vamosa, Vignette, and Others Collaborate to Enable Information Sharing Across Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Repositories Boston, MA, USA; 17 Nov...
November 16, 2008,

OASIS Members Form Committee to Advance Interoperability and Conformance of OpenDocument Format (ODF) Applications
IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Google, Novell, Red Hat, US Department of Defense, Belgian Fedict, South Africa Dept of Science and Technology, and Others Collaborate to Deliver True Data Interoperability for Office Applications Boston, MA, USA; 3 November 2008 — OASIS, the inte...
November 2, 2008,

Europeans Explore Security Challenges and Solutions at OASIS Open Standards Forum
Event to Feature Special Workshop on SOA and Telecommunications London, England; 4 September 2008 — "Security Challenges for the Information Society" will be the focus of the fifth annual OASIS Forum, to be held at Ditton Manor near London, 1-3 Octobe...
September 3, 2008,

OASIS Launches SAML XML.org Online Community
Sun Microsystems and Ping Identity Sponsor Interactive Web Site for Federated Identity Standard Boston, MA, USA; 17 June 2008 — The OASIS international standards consortium today introduced a new XML.org online community web site dedicated to supporti...
June 16, 2008,

Members Approve Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) 2.0 as OASIS Standard
IBM, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, SAP, TIBCO, Vignette and Others Collaborate on Open Standard for Integrating Web Services into Portals read more
May 29, 2008,

OASIS Launches New Group to Optimize SOA for Telecommunications
BEA, IBM, Primeton, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, CA, Microsoft, NEC, Nortel, Oracle, Progress Software, Verisign, and Others Collaborate to Resolve Telecommunications Issues Within the SOA Framework Boston, MA, USA; 28 April 2008 — The OASIS open standards ...
April 27, 2008,

OASIS to Host Conference on Building Composable SOA Business Applications
SAP, Primeton, Software AG, BEA Systems, IBM, and Sun Microsystems Sponsor Open Standards 2008 read more
March 16, 2008,

OGC® and OASIS Announce Progress on Standards Cooperation
Groups cite collaborative contributions and adoption of standards for Web services, emergency management, e-business, and security Boston and Wayland, MA, USA; 12 March 2008 — Progress on ongoing collaborative efforts was announced today by two inter...
March 11, 2008,

OASIS Members Form New Committee to Advance BPEL4People
Active Endpoints, Adobe, BEA, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Software AG, and Others Collaborate on Extension for Web Services Business Process Execution Language for Human Interactions read more
February 13, 2008,

OASIS Launches BPEL XML.org Online Community
BEA Systems and IBM Sponsor Interactive Web Site for SOA and Web Services Business Process Standard read more
February 12, 2008,

Layer 7 Technologies Announces Support for Solaris(TM) 10 on SPARC
Leading XML Security and Networking Vendor Adds Support for SPARC Platforms to Family of Products to Help Secure, Simply and Scale XML and SOA Deployments
February 11, 2008, WebServices.Org News

Members Approve XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) 1.2 as OASIS Standard
IBM, Lionbridge, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, and Others Collaborate on Open Standard for Interoperability between Localization Tools read more
February 10, 2008,

iTKO LISA Combines SOA Monitoring with Advanced Test Execution Capabilities
Native test interaction with leading system metrics dashboards and reporting environments provides improved control over performance and reliability.
February 6, 2008, WebServices.Org News

New Open Source WSO2 Mashup Server Combines Best of Web 2.0 and SOA to Enable the Social Enterprise
WSO2 Mashup Server and Mooshup.com Mashup Service Let Mashups Scale from Individuals to Enterprise Teams to Internet Communities
January 28, 2008, WebServices.Org News

OASIS Advances Service Data Objects (SDO) Architecture for Uniform SOA Data Handling
Adobe, BEA Systems, IBM, Progress Software, SAP, and Xcalia Collaborate on Approach to Simplify Data Programming in SOA Environments read more
November 14, 2007,

iTKO LISA 4 Release Revolutionizes SOA Quality with Virtualized Services and Business Process Testing Features
LISA's Evolution Mitigates IT Risk through SOA Testing, Integration Support and Policy Validation iTKO, Inc., the leading provider of testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, announced the availability of the new version of its flagship product suite, iTKO LISA 4 SOA...
November 13, 2007, WebServices.Org News

Members Approve ebXML Messaging Services 3.0 as OASIS Standard
Axway Software, Fujitsu, NEC, Sun Microsystems, U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and Others Collaborate on New Version of Global Standard for Exchanging Business Messages over the Internet read more
October 15, 2007,

Parasoft Announces Advanced SOA Testing Support for Microsoft Visual Studio and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Parasoft SOAtest 5.5 Continues its Evolution as the Premier Quality Solution to Ensure Secure, Reliable, And Compliant Service Oriented Architectures.
October 2, 2007, WebServices.Org News

iTKO LISA Ensures Quality where Web 2.0 and SOA Collide
New LISA UI Testing features allow Complete, Collaborative and Continuous testing of Web 2.0 applications at both UI and implementation layers
October 1, 2007, WebServices.Org News

StrikeIron Continues to Expand Web Services Marketplace by Adding New Financial Data Services
On-Demand Integration of financial news and historical stock options data available for rapid deployment into Web sites and business applications
September 20, 2007, WebServices.Org News

Layer 7 Technologies and Nexaweb Announce Strategic Alliance to Deliver Secure Enterprise Web 2.0 Solutions
Alliance Offers Customers Secure SOA and Web Services for SOBA Applications; Leading SOA Security Provider Enrolls in Nexaweb Web2SOA Program
September 19, 2007, WebServices.Org News

Layer 7 Technologies Introduces the SecureSpan XML Policy Integration Point for Cross Domain Solutions
New suite enables net-centric information exchange across security and classification boundaries for defense and intelligence community
September 19, 2007, WebServices.Org News

Sold on SOA
A 21 page Computerworld bulletin (sponsored by Fujitsu) addresses pretty much most of the factors facings organisations today in terms of adopting SOA , in particular drawing attention to the fact "A registry is the linchpin for achieving reuse of existing services". A good read for the bigger pi...
August 12, 2007, WebServices.Org News