Sun unveils new SOA platform, ESB

Everyone's just kind of putting the ESB label on everything these days, so what's new about Sun...

Sun Microsystems Inc. officially entered the enterprise service bus (ESB) space today, rolling out its first upgrade of the former SeeBeyond Inc. messaging middleware, which it acquired sometime ago and tying it together with Sun's portal, application server, Web server and development studio offerings as part of a single platform.

The platform, called the Composite Application Platform, will be available at the end of March, with $100 per employee per year subscription for those companies that wish to add services and support and free for you.

Business process management, workflow and data transformation are also part of the ESB suite.

Sun has already launched what it calls the Open ESB community. That group so far has concentrated on working with the Java Business Integration (JBI) specification, but Joe Keller, vice president of marketing for SOA and integration platforms at Sun, noted that the Business Process Execution Language engine will be the first component of the Java ESB Suite to submit its code to Open ESB, probably around the time that the JavaOne conference in May. He added that the SeeBeyond product, now called the Sun Java ESB Suite, offers Java Messaging Service-based distributed agents that can operate with no communications hub required.

Per Shawn Willett, principal analyst at Sterling, Va.-based Current Analysis Inc. "It depends on what you define as an ESB, everyone's just kind of putting the ESB label on everything these days."

He noted that Sun's pricing has given the SeeBeyond product a chance to gain traction outside the "high-end" niche it used to target.

But at this time its too early to say that this ESB will have more impact on others already into business. But the part to note is Sun is behind this and it is free, that might propel few enterprises to atleast have a look at it.

So still not sure how it might impact the businesses.

10 Golden Powerpoint Rules

A PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
Came across this interesting piece of information on Rajesh Jain's weblog


If you are approaching a venture capitalist, your 10 slides could have the following points:
1. Problem
2. Your solution
3. Business model
4. Underlying magic/technology
5. Marketing and sales
6. Competition
7. Team
8. Projections and milestones
9. Status and timeline
10. Summary and call to action

Guess What !!!

Oracle has launched its own middleware. Initially it was launched as Oralce Middleware & now re-christened to Oracle Fusion.

Oracle defines the product as 'hot-pluggable'.
Launch of this product will defnitely affect the Integration world of today, which boast of few big players. Webmethods & Tibco for an instance.

Will keep posted on the developments of this new product & the diff. vis-a-vis to other players.

Salute to fellow Indian!!!

Imagine this Indian government does not provide any Social Security to its citizen or any Medicare for its citizen, but still everyone manages to look after their family whenever there is a crisis. Indian government is not filled with intelligent people in fact you can find uneducated and the dumbest person sitting down in the highest level of offices. Then how can individual Indians make it to the top achieving highest level of knowledge? It’s the family which helps create the intelligent Indians; each and every family tries to somehow get their son’s and daughters educated so that they will receive little more education then their parents. They sacrifice a lot to give an education to their children; I have personally come across so many families where they skip a meal so that they can provide education to their children. I met a father at a hospital where he had just donated one of his kidneys to help raise money for his family. (How many parents are ready to do this sacrifice to uplift their families?) Sacrifices like this has made Indians achieve the highest level of knowledge. With 1 billion populations you can imagine why India can produce high quality people, because there is a constant competition even for simple things, like getting into a primary school. Today the dumb people in the politics put up a huge show and state that they are making India shine and the media also does not understand what is going on the background. Indians will be successful only till they remember the sacrifices made by their families and ready to make that sacrifice for their children’s. So whenever you speak about India’s success don’t talk about the Indian government, speak about the Individuals you made India shine. All I ask is instead of saying “Third world country” say “Third world politicians” so that everyone in this world will know Indian politicians hide behind hard working Indians.

C this...!!!