Archive for October 18th, 2006

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

IBM Posts Strong Earnings, Analysts Credit Acquisitions

IBM released earnings today.
Per Forbes:
IBM has purchased 50 companies, 31 of which are software firms and 48 of which are at least software related, in the past four years.
The rain cloud in this sunny forecast is that the growth came mostly from hardware and software top and bottom line growth. To really grow, IBM […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Acquisitions, Performance, News by Greg

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

All of IBM Rallies Behind SOA

In recent news, IBM executives held a teleconference Tuesday, Oct. 5, to declare “the entire IBM company is now rallying behind SOA,” and announced new WebSphere offerings adding industry specific services and governance capabilities to their product line.
“SOA is a style,” Mills said. “It’s a style of building applications. It’s a style of integrating applications. […]

No Comments » - Posted in General, SOA by Greg

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Great Podcast on SOA Industry

There’s a great podcast with Steve Garone, formerly the Chief Technical Strategist for Sun Microsystem’s Software Marketing organization discussing SOA trends, focusing on IBM and BEA specifically. If you’re interested in IBM and SOA it would be worth a listen on the way to work sometime. I’ve pulled out some quotes that I […]

No Comments » - Posted in General by Greg