Latest Additions: ibm.corporatememe.com http://ibm.corporatememe.com/feed/ 2008-08-28T22:39:18+01:00 text/html http://ibm.corporatememe.com/#1 A growing number of companies are finding that lower-visibility Web-oriented architecture (WOA) developments, spawned through grassroots movements, are a better route to the service-oriented architecture. WOA, like SOA, is an architectural approach to system design, though WOA is resource-oriented rather than service-oriented. What's the difference? While the core SOA design unit is a reusable service that fulfills a distinct business function, resource-oriented services are more limited and data-focused. Although some pundits argue that only startups and Web-centric companies are getting behind WOA, IBM WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo has become a champion via Project Zero, IBM's WOA-based framework, now in beta text/html http://ibm.corporatememe.com/#2 text/html http://ibm.corporatememe.com/#3 text/html http://ibm.corporatememe.com/#4 IBM launches new mashup tools WebSphere sMash and Mashup Center. text/html http://ibm.corporatememe.com/#5