Launch of the Eclipse SOA Industry Working Group
Things have been rather quiet around the Eclipse SOA Intitative. The cause for that lies squarely with the exit of some commercial software vendors from the Industry Working Group shortly before it was to start in the fall of 2009.
I think that speaks volumes about the insecurity that these vendors are facing when dealing with Open Source projects. For the others, like Obeo, itemis & SOPERA whose business models are closely entwined with Open Source projects, the work has gone on. Recently, Engineering, Italy’s biggest system integrator joined the Industry Group in February 2010 and has offered up two new SOA projects: eBPM und eBAM giving the whole initiative a new momentum. As a result of which, half a year later, the Eclipse SOA Industry Working Group will now attend the SOA days at the Deutsche Post officially with a keynote presentation by Mike Milinkovich.