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SOA and WOA Gain Momentum - now becomes known as SOWA

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, April 20, 2008 7:52 AM

Hop on the Bus Gus: IBM finds a niche for SOA Appliances

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Saturday, February 02, 2008 7:25 PM

Beyond SOA - What' Next? - Service-Oriented Web Architecture (SOWA) is Where It's At!

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Saturday, December 29, 2007 5:01 AM

SOA Predictions: 2008 - The Year SOA Vendors will lead the Migration of SOA to the Network

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, December 16, 2007 5:44 PM

SOA Networking Topologies - Is there a Cloud on the Horizon?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, November 22, 2007 7:18 PM

SOA moves beyond the Enterprise - How are Vendors Positioning for Multi-Enterprise Service Connectivity?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, November 04, 2007 8:51 AM

GlobeCom2007 - Workshop of Interest - Enabling the Future Service-Oriented Internet

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, October 14, 2007 8:28 PM

Is SOAP on the Ropes?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Tuesday, October 09, 2007 5:49 PM

Heard any Good NOC - NOC Jokes Lately?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, October 07, 2007 6:31 AM

Another One Bites the Dust - Business 2.0 Magazine packs it in

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Monday, October 01, 2007 7:31 PM

IBM DataPower integration - distances itself from other SOA Appliance Vendors

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, June 07, 2007 7:50 AM

Will Sonoa ever get out of the Starting Gate?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, May 30, 2007 8:55 PM

Why traditional Networking Vendors will have a hard time competing against "Full-Suite" SOA Vendors

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:14 PM | Add Comment

Commoditization at the low end of the ESB market - Can the "Boxed" Networking Vendors be far behind?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:12 PM

Will Service-Oriented Networking become synonymous with networking ESBs?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Tuesday, May 29, 2007 1:43 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

At the End of Day SOA is still about Networking

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:00 AM

SOA Enterprise Architects must become "SOA Communal Architects"

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:58 AM

SAP takes Early Lead in Fostering "Service-Oriented Communities"

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:42 AM

SAP/Cisco GRC Solution - "Product Specific" to SAP

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:43 AM

Enterprise SOA waning, focus moves to SOA Collaboration Networks?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:19 AM

Customers confused over Cisco's Reactivity/AON/SONA Networking Product Positioning

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Monday, April 23, 2007 7:17 AM | Add Comment

SOA Vendors continue to build out Governance for Distributed SOA Networks

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Monday, April 09, 2007 6:40 AM

Building out SOA Networks - Centeralized vs. Distributed?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, April 01, 2007 10:30 AM

The Rise and Fall of WS-I?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, April 01, 2007 9:39 AM

Distributed SOA and Virtualization go Hand in Hand, but Which Hand does What?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Friday, March 30, 2007 8:20 AM

The Ever Evolving SOA

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:11 AM

Battle between Cisco and Microsoft cuts Telco's out of the Net Apps Pie

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Tuesday, March 20, 2007 9:12 AM

Will Cisco use Webex as a SaaS offering to Telcos?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, March 18, 2007 9:48 AM

Cisco tries to become a "Social Butterfly"

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, March 11, 2007 11:10 AM

SOA kicks SaaS

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Friday, March 09, 2007 7:36 PM

Will "Value Networks" hold the key on How SOA Networking will Evolve?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, March 08, 2007 1:00 PM

Microsoft, Cisco at Odds on moving Intelligence to the Network - Gary E Smith

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:50 AM | Add Comment

Cisco puts a Stake in the Ground for SOA Networking

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:39 AM

Next Generation SOA Appliances to support Virtualization - Virtual Network Appliances

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, February 11, 2007 9:52 PM

Extended Enterprise Service Buses (EESBs) Coming to a Network Near You!

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, February 11, 2007 11:07 AM

The Evolving SOA Platform moves to the Network - Gary E Smith

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, February 08, 2007 2:03 PM

SOA Network Architect - One Year Old

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, February 04, 2007 4:51 PM

Web Services, SOA - More Important in the future than VOIP - Surveys Say

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:47 AM

Global SOA Network as the "new" SOA Platform

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:22 AM

Service-Oriented Unified Communications Platform Gaining Momentum

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Monday, January 22, 2007 12:24 PM

Why Enterprises aren't buying into SOA Networking? - Still a Cloudy Issue

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Monday, January 22, 2007 9:17 AM

My Take of Amazon's EC2 - Interesting Exercise but the Real Value is in the Service Re-use across a Network

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Friday, January 19, 2007 8:59 PM

How SOA will Evolve from a Networking Perspective

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:45 PM

SOA Vision meets Productization Reality or "The Rubber Hits the Road"

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Tuesday, January 09, 2007 4:00 PM

Managing Services beyond the Enterprise

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, January 07, 2007 1:09 PM

The SOA Network Architect talks to Cisco on SONA and AON

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Saturday, December 16, 2006 8:28 AM

SOA Appliances can act as PEP's for managing SOA Governance in Distributed Environments

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Friday, December 15, 2006 4:50 PM

Are You Getting Ready to put Your Business Logic into the Network?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:27 PM

Networking in SOA Environments - Need for Definitions

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, December 07, 2006 7:45 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

No SAP/Cisco GRC Yet!

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, December 07, 2006 5:02 AM

SAP/Juniper Hedge Bets on SOA Networking with Investment in Sonoa Systems

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, November 29, 2006 6:10 AM

SOA Network Architect Award - "Best Well Architected Appliance" - Layer 7 SecureSpan

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, November 19, 2006 10:57 AM

Did you mean SOFA Networking? - Interest in SOA Networking is Growing!

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:00 AM

SAP Getting Ready to Unleash Services over the Net?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, November 09, 2006 6:00 AM

Next Generation SOA Platforms must Manage Services over SOA Network Infrastructure

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Monday, November 06, 2006 6:52 AM

Telecom in SOA or SOA in Telecom?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Friday, October 27, 2006 2:03 AM

SOA Networking - Next up to bat in SOA Adoption?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Saturday, October 21, 2006 7:41 AM

Reactivity Chops Key Management Personnel - Are they being Over Reactive?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Friday, October 20, 2006 12:37 PM

SONA becomes SAUNA for Cisco - Is it Warranted?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:42 AM

A Service is a Service is a Service - Wrong!

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Tuesday, October 17, 2006 5:26 PM

Cisco's Investment in CXO Systems - Will it Pay Off?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:02 AM | Add Comment

Understanding Cisco's SONA - What it is and is not!

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, October 15, 2006 9:00 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Will Cisco Have SOA Networking Contenders?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:09 AM

Are We Moving from Silos to Pipes?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:00 AM

"The Network Is The Computer" - Absent from SOA Networking

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:08 AM

Oracle Turns it Up a Notch - BAM!

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, September 21, 2006 4:39 PM

The SAPFields and McOracles Feud Continues

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, September 20, 2006 5:16 PM

What does Networking have to do with Governance?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Monday, September 11, 2006 12:40 PM

SAP/Cisco Partnership small step for SOA, Giant Leap for SOA Networking

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:08 AM

Why SAP will Cannibalize ERP without a BURP?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:00 AM | Add Comment

Three Phases of SOA & Network Topology

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:56 PM | Add Comment

New SOA Management Careers

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:39 AM

Will SOA become Extinct by Natural Evolution to Web 2.0?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Tuesday, August 29, 2006 1:50 PM | Add Comment

AON is not SON

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, August 10, 2006 2:59 PM | Add Comment

Why Aren't SOA Appliance Vendors being Courted?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, August 10, 2006 8:45 AM | Add Comment

Another SOA Adoption View

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, August 10, 2006 6:57 AM | Add Comment

Visibility into Networked Business Intelligence

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Monday, August 07, 2006 3:44 PM | Add Comment

SOA Interoperability Starts to Heat Up - Where is WS.I?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Friday, August 04, 2006 8:09 AM | Add Comment

SOA Trading Hubs - Next ERP Vendor Battleground?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Monday, July 31, 2006 11:12 AM | Add Comment

Will WS-CDL Eclipse WS-BPEL?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:33 AM | Add Comment

Where do SOA Networks Fit In?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:04 AM | Add Comment

Cisco, Oracle, SUN - Who is going to Buy F5 Networks?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:52 PM | Add Comment

Choreographies - Impact on SOA Networks

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, July 06, 2006 9:43 AM | Add Comment

When will Bottom-Feeding Network Vendors see the Daylight?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Saturday, July 01, 2006 7:21 AM | Add Comment

Networked BI means Exchanging more Metadata based on Trusted Relationships

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Tuesday, June 27, 2006 9:19 PM | Add Comment

It’s About "Networked Intelligence" not "Intelligent Networks"

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Monday, June 26, 2006 8:24 AM | Add Comment

The Three Phases and Two Hurdles of SOA

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Sunday, June 25, 2006 9:36 AM | Add Comment

SOA Appliances - Buy for Security, Build for Policy

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Thursday, June 22, 2006 6:20 AM | Add Comment

SOA Appliances - Do You Really Need Them? - UPDATE

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Friday, June 16, 2006 6:50 AM | Add Comment

SOA Layered Architecture Model - Do we need Yet another Layer for SOA Networking?

Posted by Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK at Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:34 AM | Add Comment
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