Inside SOA from Sun Microsystems

Ashesh and Kevin discuss what customers are facing including portal migration, Enterprise Service Bus and business process management. Plus they’ll give you details on Sun’s offer to try our platform and info about the calculator you can use to compare prices with other vendors.

Sun's Ashesh Badani and Sun Fed President Bill Vass discuss the government's involvement in SOA and just how much they are planning on spending in an SOA. Plus you'll hear about the use of open Source, mashups, the 5 primary services.

Sun's Ross Altman and Bill Wilkins discuss the open source development process and how it works, how you can contribute to Open ESB and blending open source with enterprise class software.

Sun's Bruce Tierney, Kevin Schmidt and Senior Product Architect Michael Jenkins discuss the Early Access Program, round tripping, easy ways you can upgrade to 6.0. Plus you'll hear the open source component of the release and Open ESB.

Sun's Ashesh Badani and David Codelli discuss MDM, what customers can expect and what it's trying to solve. Plus you'll hear operational versus analytical MDM and how MDM is open sourced.

Hear how Sun stood out from the crowd at the MDM Summit, who's using Sun's technology and the NCAA Tournament.

We’re bringing this show to you live from the tradeshow floor at Gartner’s Application Architecture Development and Integration Conference. In this episode, Kevin Schmidt and Bruce Tierney discuss sessions at the conference -- including the keynote on the Gartner HypeCycle, the #1 search terms on Gartner’s site, the hype around event-driven architecture and SOA horror stories.

You’ll hear from Sun's director of Product Mgmt. Kevin Schmidt and Sr. Product Mgr. Bruce Tierney and joining them from the financial services industry is Sr. Vice President, David Dart. They will discuss the prime driver for implementing a Services Oriented Architecture, how getting credibility for the project early on can set you up for success. Plus you’ll hear best practices on navigating through the cultural change.

You’ll hear from Sun's director of product mgmt. Kevin Schmidt and sr product mgr. Bruce Tierney as they discuss the basics of Service Oriented Architecture, Business Integration and the benefits of single customer view. Plus, find out why SOA doesn't have to be a rip and replace solution. Finally, Bruce tells us about his new Apple iPhone.