The question of how to combine BPM and SOA came up a lot here at TIBCO's TUCON user event—and, a little disappointingly, the standard response seems to typically revolve around reinventing the three-tier architecture of the 1990s, just with...

You might think having been a senior analyst for 8 years that I'd have seen most things. Well, this has definitely been a week of firsts for me. My first ever JavaOne conference; my first week in joining MWD as a principal analyst covering the...

Along with an assorted collection of other analysts and journalists, on Friday I sat down for a conversation with Charles Phillips. The invitation came pretty much out of the blue a couple of weeks ago; the reason was because Charles is interested...

Courtesy of InternetNews on Tuesday I learned that IBM has added support for OpenID, Windows CardSpace and Eclipse's Higgins Identity Framework to its Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (FIM) offering. As one of the enterprise identity management...