Andy Astor is co-founder, president and CEO of EnterpriseDB. Prior to EDB, he was a vice president at webMethods, Inc., where he was responsible for technical marketing, corporate acquisition integration and standards leadership and evangelism. While at webMethods, he was elected twice to the Board of Directors of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), and he served as that organization's Marketing Chair. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Andy is also on the International Advisory Board for SOA Web Services Journal.
This column may require a little patience on your part, but I think it will
be worth it in the end. Let's start with a simple premise: within a year,
nearly everyone reading these words will be deeply impacted by
Sarbanes-Oxley, yet many have never heard of it. The purpose of this note is
to offer you a preview of what's to come. In other words, a wake-up call.
First of all, who or what is Sarbanes-Oxley? Simply put, the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act (SOA) is the federal law that was put in place last year in response to
the scandals at Enron, MCI, and other large public corporations. The la... (more)
This article makes the case that Web services provide a significant benefit
to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance projects, and that they will therefore be used
extensively on these projects. We begin with a very brief primer on the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act, then describe the connection between SOX and Web
services, including an outline of how most Sarbanes-Oxley projects are
conducted, and where Web s... (more)
This session will detail a best-practices approach to enterprise adoption of
open source software, focusing on five common migration mistakes and
recommendations for successfully avoiding them. We will cover the
characteristics of open source offerings that make them especially suitable
for enterprise adoption, including licensing structure, feature equivalency
with commercial counterpar... (more)
Over the past couple of years, several technology vendors have defined a
comprehensive set of specifications that, when complete, will provide an
infrastructure for enterprise-class Web services interoperability. The names
of these specifications generally begin with "WS-", so the group of them is
sometimes referred to as WS* (pronounced "WS Splat").
This article identifies the important ... (more)
Andy Astor is co-founder, president and CEO of EnterpriseDB. Prior to EDB, he was a vice president at webMethods, Inc., where he was responsible for technical marketing, corporate acquisition integration and standards leadership and evangelism. While at webMethods, he was elected twice to the Board of Directors of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), and he served as that organization's Marketing Chair. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Andy is also on the International Advisory Board for SOA Web Services Journal.
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