Join Impact 2007 in Second Life

If you are unable to attend the Impact 2007 event in real life you can join the event today in Second Life. You can see and hear Steve Mills kick off the IBM SOA and WebSphere event live from Orlando, Florida – and also attend the keynotes from Robert LeBlanc, Tom Rosamilia and Sandy Carter. It takes place in Second Life today from 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. ET.

The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0

Sandy Carter has written a book on SOA entitled The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0. The book offers best practices on SOA deployments based on interviews with people from companies that have been through successful SOA projects.

The book introduces a new term “flex-pon-sive”:

Flex-pon-sive* companies respond with lightning speed and agility to rapidly changing business needs. Flex-pon-sive* companies are focused on processes that are enabled for change through IT.

Rational Tester for SOA open beta program

An open beta program for Rational Tester for SOA has been announced. Rational Tester for SOA enables you to

  • Validate SOA system functionality and interoperability
  • Ensure system performance
  • Determine maximum system capacity
  • Identify and resolve performance problems of SOA IT solutions

Rational Tester for SOA is powered by IBM Rational Performance Tester and the new IBM Rational Performance Tester Extension for SOA add-on component.

[Via Kelly – thanks!]