Is SOA essentially "Software as a Service" contained within the enterprise walls? The analogy makes a great elevator speech, especially if one is hard-pressed to describe the philosophy of SOA to ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Need help building your service-oriented architecture? Vendors stand ready with a slew of service options. Adopting a service-oriented architecture promises to transform rigid networks into flexible, ...

It should be no surprise, then, that Web services and SOA pure-plays have become hot property. The latest to be snapped up is Web services networking company Blue Titan, whose purchase by SOA Software ...

In a move that signals the growing importance of creating and enforcing polices for using Web services in a service-oriented architecture, SOA Software Inc. plans to update its SOA products so they ...

SOA planning is committee work, and it often requires that IT architects meet to assess a steady stream of proposals for services to run on the corporate network. “In P&C, we have a high-level project ...

Service-oriented architecture, the business software industry's oft-used buzzwords, could actually be paying off, at least for some companies. IBM on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings that ...