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<<It's David against Goliath. Annraí
O'Toole, Chief Executive Officer of Cape
Clear Software, is taking on IBM in a battle for the
future of SOA. What makes this interesting is that most companies of Cape
Clear's size and stature (which is to say, small) are going out of their way to
align themselves with Big Blue. Not Annraí. He's using his company blog and all the other
marketing tools at his disposal to bring the titan down or at least, bring
down the buyer's costs.
"We set out to radically simplify this whole middleware muddle," he explains, pointing to Cape Clear's Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product and agile approach to implementation. "We believe you can build complex systems in less time and at less cost. You dont need an army of people to make that happen." O'Toole argues that IBM has ceased being innovative on the software front. He thinks its product organizations are "carrying 20-30 years of software baggage and they are offering their customers nothing new." Result? Customers spending "an absolute fortune on software and an even bigger amount on services from IBM to actually get anything to work," he adds. "And so, were coming along and saying its about time to re-inject a bit of innovation and actually give customers some real choice based on some real software that solves their problems quicker, better, faster. Were out there and we are deliberately taking an anti-IBM approach. It isnt about people. It isnt about an army of consultants. It isnt about that other IBM. Its about great product totally based on open standards, embodying a whole new architecture and a whole new way of thinking about tying systems together and exposing them as services.">> You can read about the Fighting Irish at: http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/index.php?p=462
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