About
Dec 18th, 2007 by Eric Samson
I’m the CTO and founder of Xcalia, an ISV focused on delivering solution for Data Access in SOA. I’m a member of the OASIS SDO2 expert group, a member of the OpenSOA DAS expert group and a member of the JDO2, EJB3, JPA2 and SDO 3 expert groups within the Java Community Process (JCP). Xcalia has been acquired by DataDirect a division of Progress Software (Nasdaq: PRGS) in February 2008. I’m now the CTO Data Services for DataDirect.
I’m in the IT since 1985 and prior to Xcalia I’ve been a programmer in large organizations like Air France (French airline), project manager at Elf (French oil company), research engineer at Alcatel (Telco Manufacturer), CEO of my own consulting company (1989-1996), Technical Lead at Business & Decision (who acquired my company) and Technical Director of Versant (ODBMS vendor) in SEMEA. I’m graduated from Paris 6 University (BSc, MSc, DEA which was something between MSc and PhD).
Accessing Data is one of the most interesting challenges in SOA. Sorry to say that, but to be direct, frank and harsh, Data Access has been a failure in CORBA, EJB and many other architectures in the past. I really think the DAS could be a chance to make Data Access a true success within SOA. And it is really exciting to contribute to that effort.
In this blog we will discuss standards like SDO3, DAS, JPA2 but also products like Xcalia XIC, BEA ALDSP, Microsoft Entity Framework and Astoria (ADO.Net Data Services), new databases, new persistence frameworks, etc. It could be the right place to exchange and share ideas and experiences about Data Access in general and Data Services in particular.