[Fwd: [service-orientated-architecture] BEA, Plumtree,Composite Apps & SOA]

[Farrukh Najmi <Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM>]

FYI...

Another article highlighting importance of portal in SOA and Composite Apps.

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Farrukh

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• From: Gervas Douglas <gervasdouglas@yahoo.co.uk>
• To: service-orientated-architecture@yahoogroups.com
• Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:18:55 +0000

<<The portal market has been fast-growing, and the large companies set
their sites on it early on, McDonough said. However, the ability to
handle unstructured data and offer collaboration capabilities has been
the forte of companies like Plumtree. "There is a need for business
users to have broader access to unstructured information. The larger
software markets have always been transactional; they don't handle
unstructured data well. That's where the big hole in the enterprise
software market has been."

Both Plumtree and BEA had been pursuing composite application
strategies, and position the portal as an important element in a
service-oriented architecture (SOA).

"Looking at the portal market and the issues around adoption of SOA,
there is a real natural synergy," said Gene Phifer, vice president and
distinguished analyst at Gartner Inc., in Stamford, Conn. Using a
portal can be a valuable first step to implementing an SOA, he said
because portals "to a large degree have been built around service
orientation" and are "early adopters of Web services."

Plumtree's ability to run cross-platform on both J2EE and .NET fits
with BEA's direction, according to the company. "It will be an
interesting play if BEA truly becomes a multiplatform company," said
Delphi Group's Palmer. "It seems inevitable given the commoditization
of the application server.">>

You can read about the implications of BEA's acquisition at:

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1119008,00.html?track=NL-110&ad=524684

How will IBM, Microsoft, Oracle et alia respond?

Gervas

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