" "We found that in a large number of deals, we were in there with AmberPojnt," said Paul Patrick, vice president and chief architect of AquaLogic products. In fact, BEA has had arms length ties with AmberPoint and its rival SOA Software ever since the dawning of the AquaLogic brand a couple years ago (SOA was present at the AquaLogic coming out event held at NASDAQ's headquarters back in June 2005)."
" The result has been something of an arms race, as each tool has upped it management capabilities (typically through agents and probes), with the various WebLogic and AquaLogic offerings."
" For instance, back in November, SOA Software added the capability to anticipate service policies on BEA's AquaLogic Service Bus (the ESB offering). So if AquaLogic is using SAML for federated identity, it would understand that a service request headed for an endpoint on a Microsoft .NET platform would have to convert the header to the WS-Federation protocol."
" But, as BEA comprises AmberPoint largest customer base, it made sense for the company to addle up closer. And in fact it counters a recent tie-in between SOA Software and Red ... read the whole article
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