Roman Stanek's Push-Button Thinking » HP

Anyone see a trend?

Roman Stanek — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:23:00 +0000

INDUSTRY:
Java -> J2EE -> SOA

Three reasons why HP should join NetBeans

Roman Stanek — Fri, 25 May 2007 00:21:00 +0000

1) Competition is good and with the upcoming 6.0 release it is clear that NetBeans is a viable competitor to Eclipse (maybe the only real long term competitor). Support from HP would give NetBeans project more credibility and this open source software would become less dependent on Sun Microsystems.

2) HP Software is focused on the lifecycle approach to automation of IT processes (a.k.a. BTO) and a Java IDE would make the application and service development and testing stages of the lifecycle more developer friendly. NetBeans extensions for quality, SOA, diagnostics and other parts of HP software would fit nicely into this picture.

3) It would make me happy to see the NetBeans and Systinet teams to work together. And I understand that this is not a real reason but it would feel really good…

Q&A: SOA and BPM

Roman Stanek — Sun, 20 May 2007 20:13:00 +0000

I will be speaking in London on Tuesday about SOA @ HP to a group of 20+ European journalists and I am getting ready for some potential questions. One of the questions in my Q&A document is this one: What is the relationship between SOA and BPM?

I’ve heard this question many times before and every big SOA vendor has the same answer:

SOA creates a set of services (ESB, network, fabric…) and these services are orchestrated by some clever BPM tool.
BPM is for business people, SOA is for techies.

I absolutely disagree and this is why I was happy to read these two posts from Steve Jones yesterday. Here is a quote: “for most Services the concept of “Goals” will be more useful than the concept of “Process” “. It really brought back the memories of Radovan’s controversial business process blogging in 2003 and 2004.

So I know how I want to answer the BPM question on Tuesday and I can move on to the next potential question: What is HP’s acquisition strategy in the SOA area? Hmmm, I don’t think I will be blogging about this one…