IBM is clearly showing that software alone won't solve the totality of SOA challenges, ... This will turn up the heat on the other platform vendors such as BEA (Systems) and Oracle to consider how they too will broaden their coverage of SOA beyond simply software and professional services.

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With IBM's entry into the network appliance space for SOA, we think this will turn up the heat on the other platform vendors such as BEA and Oracle to consider how they too will broaden their coverage of SOA beyond simply software and professional services.

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There's always a context to data. Even when a field is blank, different applications impose different assumptions about what that means.

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Faced with the prospects of competing with much-larger vendors, we believe that many will choose acquisition instead of trying to broaden their own capabilities or find deeper pockets. 2006 will bear out to be the year of super-consolidation for the SOA markets.

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All of these companies are piling into this real weird bandwagon. ESB is a problematic term that was sickly in 2005 and I think it's going to die in 2006.

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The whole portal approach to loading lots of stuff on back-end Web servers has grown stale in the tooth.

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IBM is clearly showing that software alone won't solve the totality of SOA challenges.

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