dé la bienvenida a reveladores de software de América Latina 

The number of members of our community who reside in Latin America is growing rapidly, so I've used an on-line English to Spanish translator to find the right words to welcome our Latin friends to our community.  I am quite certain that what I have come up with, if not totally incompre

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We have reached two important milestones with the XAware project. XAware 5 has been released GA, Generally Available for production use AND XAware's open source data integration software is now being downloaded more than 500 times every day. We reached this important milestone less than four months after first announcing our open source project with avaiabil

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While working at MCI in 1995, I was exposed for the first time to the benefits of service orientation. I was responsible for the order entry application for 1-800-MUSIC-NOW (which turned out to be a marketing flop), in which call center agents needed to process credit card payments for music CDs. Fortunately for me, MCI was alread

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Het bedrijf XAware, Inc. is opgericht door Bill Miller (CTO) en Kirstan Vandersluis (Chief Science Officer) in 1999 en gevestigd in Colorado Springs, USA en heeft een dataintegratie gereedschap ontwikkeld voor de realisatie en ondersteuning van een Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

XAware ondersteunt enkele belangrijke industr

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I have used the term "oxymoron " to describe the idea of a single-vendor "SOA Platform" in prior posts. Loosely-coupled and standards-based should mean that various components can come from anywhere, allowing the designer to mix and match their favorites and change them easily as they find new and better features and ca

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Tim Harvey sent me this dispatch from Napa Valley.  Enjoy:

Thoughts and impressions from Open Source Think Tank 2008

This past week I attended an Open Source Think Tank hosted by The Olliance Group and DLA Piper and sponsored by among others Microsoft and Sun. There were at least 100 invited guests including more than 40 CEO of companies w

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SaaS HR and Financial applications provider WorkDay announced last week that it is acquiring web services-based integration middleware vendor Cape Clear Software . Analyst The 451 Group 's coverage of this announcement

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 In the post Where open source is most vital by ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn, he discusses how: 

"Open source is vital to an enterprise's data plumbing because it results in open standards. Not only does open source plumbing make standards transpa

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I am facinated by the discussion on Shaun Connolly 's Tao of Open Source blog about his 12 year old son's fun with Roblox, sort of a web-based virtual Lego set.  Shaun poses the question, "

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