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WebSphere Process Server/Enterprise Service Bus v6.0.1.5 and v6.0.2.1
Chris Tomkins
| Link to this blogWebSphere Process Server and WebSphere ESB v6.0.1.5 and v6.0.2.1 have recently been made generally available. Customers using the v6.0.1.x stream will be interested to note they can upgrade directly from v6.0.1.x to v6.0.2.1 if they wish rather than having to go to v6.0.2.0 and then to v6.0.2.1.
I finally was impress with my wireless connection during a recent open house... After years of buying the top PDA or wireless cards and spending hours setting them up only to realize that I am losing productivity not increasing I would just set them aside and move on to business as usually, that is until I purchased the t-mobile dash last week. This device is very useful not only for 24/7 Internet access and e-mail but the ability to use it as a modem for my notebook which allow most applications to work great (Just stay away from huge downloads) the device utilizes the edge network which offers accepted speeds.
I've been at VON in San Jose this week. This morning I moderated a panel session on dualmode WiFi/cellular handsets, and putting together the intro slides made me crystallise my thoughts on them a bit more clearly, as I seem to have contradictory optimistic/pessimistic thoughts about them.
For the last few months I've been collecting information about all things mobile. One of the things I learned was that Sierra Wireless is about to release this 1st quarter two AirCards that, for the first time in a long time, will support Macs. This means I will have access without having to locate wifi. Does anyone out there have some experience with being totally mobile...what it entails, drawbacks, stability? Here's the link to the page.
As someone who has a reputation for watching every penny, I find using Vodafone Live! to be very frustrating because I have to pay a fee for every little scrap of information that I take from it. Everywhere I turn, it's 50 cents here and 50 cents there, and before I know it I've spent a considerable amount of money for a short period of browsing. With this in mind, it amazes me that Vodafone's clever marketing people haven't yet come up with the idea of offering Vodafone Live! subscription packages. These subscription packages could offer access to a combination of general information services such as news, weather, traffic, webcams, and maps for a discounted package price. This would make the whole Vodafone Live! experience more user friendly, provide better value for customers, and potentially increase revenue by compelling users to take advantage of services which they would otherwise not have used if individual service fees were incurred.
Conceptually, I like both Service Oriented Architecture (aka SOA) and Software as a Service (aka SaaS). However, I think we've done the industry a disservice by overloading the term "service".
I read a blog post last week that brought up a simple question - What is a service (in SOA terms)? I have faced a huge amount of confusion over this question throughout the last two or three years, so I decided now was the time to get the answer down in writing! The answer, of course, is that SOA services are BUSINESS services, representing individual business operations. They are not web services. They are not IT programs. In fact, if only we could get the nomenclature straight the confusion probably wouldn't have arisen. My view is to call IT objects such as programs or transactions 'components'. SOA services are made up of components orchestrated together to deliver the particular business function. On top of this, SOA composite services can orchestrate together a mixture of components and SOA services.
