Paul Maurer

Dynamic languages like Ruby and Python have been enjoying a burst of popularity in the Web development community and there are a plethora of frameworks for those platforms that allow them to solve a wide variety of problems. There's one company that's building its own dynamic lan... (more)

(SYS-CON Media) - We last looked at the Active Endpoints Inc. product suite back in May of this year. Since then, the team at Active Endpoints has been busy working towards the 3.0 release of its ActiveBPEL Designer and engine. The biggest and most interesting enhancement is full s... (more)

Business process execution Language support or BPEL is at the top of every enterprise SOA punch list. It's an XML-based language designed to support long-running complex business transactions in the form of orchestrated Web Service interactions. Like most XML formats, you wouldn'... (more)

When I first looked over MagooClient from Magoo Software, it was difficult to categorize. I expected that it would be another composite application builder, but that's not what I found. Instead I found a tool that not only allows users to interact with business processes, but tha... (more)

The moniker "Shared Data Services" has a sexy ring to it, and in a market where service-oriented architecture is the topic du jour, you may be tempted to roll your eyes... but don't. Pantero targets an important segment where business spends $80 billion annually on integration an... (more)

Adeptia has released the latest version of its BPM server. The Adeptia BPM server is another entry in the fast-growing market for Business Process Management Tools. People unfamiliar with Business Process Management servers can think of them as replacing the typical maintenance-... (more)

Much has been written recently about the business-to-business aspects of Web services, but what about the region between the Web service and the desktop? Above All Software lays claim to this "last mile" by providing a platform for delivering composite applications. Gartner defi... (more)

There's a phenomenon I've witnessed again and again in my years building systems. I call it "Guerilla IT." Listen to my description and see if you've witnessed it inside your organization. You are an IT professional serving your constituency. They are satisfied with your support... (more)

What do you do after you've cofounded a company that developed award-winning products for distributed computing, won a Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, and finished a book on Web services? If you're Graham Glass you start another company and continue pushing the envelope of ... (more)

In my spare time I participate in a nonprofit entity along with a number of other busy colleagues. Most of the hard work is done in our spare time and we occasionally meet to polish the work. We started out collaborating in the endeavor in the typical ad hoc fashion, using e-mai... (more)