Mohamad Afshar, PhD, is VP of Product Management at Oracle. He has product management responsibilities for Oracle's middleware
portfolio and is part of the team driving Oracle's investments in SOA on
Application Grid - which brings together SOA and data grid technologies to
ensure predictable low latency for SOA applications. Prior to joining
Oracle, he founded Apama, a complex event processing vendor acquired by
Progress Software. He has a PhD in Parallel Systems from Cambridge
University, where he built a system for processing massive data sets using a
MapReduce framework.
We often say SOA is a discipline in enterprise architecture and if you want to get the most out of it, you have to approach SOA from business, architectural, organizational, and technological perspectives. However, most of the organizations we've worked with are taking a project-driven...Oct. 6, 2008 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,378
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