The company adopts BizTalk Server 2006 to provide its users a single front-end system following its merger with another firm. The CIO highlights the biggest banking chore the system will automate
Service-oriented architecture or SOA is an architecture style, not a product or a project. It's an improvement over past architectures in that it captures and uses the best practices of the architectures that came before it. As such, SOA is an evolution in architecture, not a revolution.
Open source databases may not yet be armor-clad enough for use as back-end corporate data stores, but observers say those displayed at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo last month are on the right track. At the very least, analysts say, these databases are becoming viable foundations for Web and application servers.