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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Special Features:
VENDORS SCRAMBLE TO IMPLEMENT
SOA
Vendors are thinking more and more about service-oriented architectures, or
SOAs these days. Different solutions are appearing as vendors change or add to
their products to enable SOA, and vendors are taking notice.
WebMethods Inc's Fabric SOA is a recent release that integrates screen
scraping, protocol interception and other methods to separate hardware and
applications. In this sense, everything is turned into Web services.
Most vendors keep SOA on their horizons, though most are still learning
about
it and its importance in the industry. Still, vendors are either
re-architecting or releasing new versions of their products so that they may
be SOA-oriented.
IBM is now in competition with Fabric with its "on demand" strategy. Though
Fabric claims the strategy is exclusionary and of a proprietary nature, IBM
touts their WebSphere 6 Application Server as its most interoperable ever. The
preview edition incorporated the Web Services Interoperability Organization's
Basic Profile 1.0 and JCA 1.5 for both synchronous and asynchronous
transactions.
Web services, utility computing, .NET, CPU harvesting and distributed
computing are just a few of the technologies that fall under the Grid
computing umbrella. Gt04 -- a premiere enterprise Grid computing conference
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Grid computing is here!
Websphere 6, which is due out later this year, will be the basis of IBM's
SOA
on-demand computing strategy. IBM hopes to simplify adaption to business
processes within an enterprise by employing the SOA.
However, IBM also faces competition from Sun's N1 and Java Enterprise
System.
Sun claims that its view of SOA does more than center on software alone. Sun
believes that control of both hardware and software is necessary to manage
business services effectively.
In addition, Oracle, touting its 10g Application Server, claims to offer
the
best SOA. Oracle combines database clustering and shared cache, and spreads
them across the entire architecture communicating to the application server
and disk farms. This decreases susceptibility to error and increases the
effectiveness of disk, database and processor resource allocation.
Oracle also claims zero code change as a competitive advantage. IBM, for
example, has a grid API that users must download in order to make calls.
Oracle argues that its products allow users to simply throw applications on
the grid and see results.
IBM, however, is confident that the Global Grid Forum is of a much larger
significance than Oracle's grid work, being that Oracle is more of a data
company than an application server company.
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