Posted in data access on Mar 19th, 2008
This is public now:
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080318005082&newsLang=fr
http://www.datadirect.com/xcalia/index.ssp
http://www.xcalia.com/news/PR_2008-03-18_Xcalia-DataDirect-Acquisition.jsp
DataDirect now has a very comprehensive offer for Data Access. At the Progress Software level this is even better (with the combination of the ESB, the RDBMS, the EII, the ODBMS and other components). I’m now the CTO of the Data Services strategy at DataDirect. I’d like to thank all our Xcalia [...]
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Posted in data access on Mar 19th, 2008
Seen this article about Oracle’s EclipseLink being the RI of JPA on TSS.
Difficult to track Oracle’s strategy about persistence… What the hell, are the differences between TopLink, TopLink Essentials and EclipseLink?
Is EclipseLink available outside of Eclipse? Or is it the Eclipse equivalent of TopLink Essentials, the one embedded within GlassFish? Why Sun would push an Eclipse-based component as an RI [...]
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Posted in data access on Mar 11th, 2008
Seen on InfoQ this panel on persistence:
InfoQ.com and ODBMS.org (Roberto V. Zicari) asked a group of leading persistence solution architects their views on the current state of the union in persistence in the Java community, published here: Java Object Persistence: State of the Union.
The panelists included:
Mike Keith: EJB co-spec lead, main architect of Oracle Toplink [...]
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Posted in data access on Mar 11th, 2008
JPOX is clearly going in the right direction with their new release:
Compliance with several persistence standards.
Emerging support for non relational data sources.
It has always been our vision at Xcalia. What we have on top of this, is full support for SOA, both as data sources (services oriented data sources, like Web services, mainframe transactions) and [...]
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