<<"SOA is more than just software, it's everything that surrounds it," said Robert LeBlanc, IBM's general manager for its WebSphere product line. He added that Big Blue will investigate putting all types of SOA functionality, including management, into SOA hardware appliances.
While IBM did not tip what its full roadmap for the XML networking functionality will be, LeBlanc did say "the IBM blade version will be coming out here in the future." He also said the technology will make its way into different form factors, such as chips and cards, as it develops. DataPower founder and chief technology officer Eugene Kuznetsov viewed the acquisition, which takes effect immediately, as a launching point for the hardware approach to service-oriented architecture. "It's a platform to make this technology really pervasive in a way a small company like DataPower never could," he said. DataPower and IBM had a good working history prior to the transaction, with DataPower interoperating with IBM's Autonomic Computing environment and getting certified as a partner in IBM Global Services' SOA Management practice . Both LeBlanc and Kuznetsov expressed confidence that Web services usage has grown to the point where customers will start to clamor for the hardware muscle DataPower has been developing since 1999. "The people who need DataPower gear are serious about SOA; they need to scale it," he said. Analysts were fairly effusive in their praise of the move. "Most people don't realize the amount of XML that's out there," said Frank Dzubek, president of Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm Communication Network Architects Inc. "This stuff is going to be in every single box known to man. IBM's going to put it in every I/O interface. This is the critical underpinning of Web services.">> You can read this at: http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid2 6_gci1135215,00.html?track=NL-110&ad=530425 Interesting to see hardware becoming a factor... Gervas ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/NhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
