Application Server - Yafeem

Stages of SOA Adoption require growing technology commitment

Messaging based solutions are the proven for high performance; does not exist on J2EE or .Net; new platforms based on event-driven architecture

Use to just buy an application server which today only support heterogeneous business component networks -

With SOA these app server construct are pulled out into SOA Infrastructure

The SOA Backplane is the Gartner concept for SOA Infrastructure

In order to deal with the heterogeneity and the complexity, the SOA vendors turn to SOA

Extensible suites is there answer

Vendors

BEA - attack on three fronts

WebLogic, Tuxedo, and AquaLogic

IBM - largest of breadth of offerings, slow to deliver of vision, expensive and complex offering. Not the best of the breed

Microsoft - struggling to find the identity in the enterprise space - selling solutions to enterprise projects is more than just delivering software in the box; long term relationship view - does not have the support organization in place - does not understand that the enterprise wants an accountable partner - moving to Software as a service
Late to SOA but can scale -

Oracle most invested in Event driven architecture - have a product in this space. Late to market

SAP - Largest Niche player in the world - very, very late to market - entry only through install base

Red hat wants to be a open source vendor for SOA - forms competition with IVM and other strategic partners -

Best of breed is clearly the best but the integration issues are you own - users will end up doing the best of breed between suites


No mention of the HP acquisition and its meaning for the SOA Backplane.


Conclusion: very good presentation and worth a read. Here is the deck