Ross Altman is CTO, Business Integration Platforms at Sun, where he is focused on the direction, development and communication of Sun's Business Integration Division's vision and strategy. He came to Sun through Sun's acquisition of SeeBeyond, the application integration and SOA development tools vendor. Prior to SeeBeyond, he was Director of Integration Technologies at EDS. Ross has authored over 150 articles on application development and integration and has delivered more than 80 presentations on these subjects at industry conferences and seminars.
We've come pretty far with SOA. Gartner reports that 'SOA' is the most widely used search term on their Website. On Google, a search for 'SOA' turns up 6,750,000 matches. And all of us in IT probably have to wade through some discussion related to SOA on a daily basis. That's a pretty ...Dec. 28, 2007 11:00 AM EST Reads: 12,171
Like pretty much everything that gets caught up in the IT hype cycle, the enterprise service bus (ESB) has taken on mythic capabilities. And, like pretty much everything that becomes the focus of myth, there's a kernel of truth embedded within all those super powers.
