SOA: Is this the path to simplifying a complex technology?

To fight the criticism of SOA complexity, the IT industry standards body OASIS has responded in a strange way: they’ve created six new technical committees (TCs) to go off and hammer out more specifications. The world of SOA is already floating in a sea of complex specifications. There are even web sites dedicated [...]

Oracle: Oracle-Look-alike Could Spell Lost Sales for Oracle

An earlier Formtek blog discussed how Oracle’s core RDBMS product is being undercut in price by both Microsoft’s SQL Server and MySQL. Most shops running Oracle know there are options out there, but most fear the risk and costs involved in moving to a different database platform.

There’s another option available now to Oracle shops [...]

Sarbanes-Oxley: The Unsung Benefits

In an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, Thomas Healey, senior fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, outlines benefits and positive results coming from Sarbanes-Oxley legislation that he thinks many are over-looking:

The US economy, rather than being stunted by over-regulation, has increased 67% or $4.2 trillion in market value between June 2002 [...]