10 Quotes by Shawn Willett

I think this product is good because it has so many options for getting things out of the mainframe,

Oracle says a company could, for example, take out its BI tool and replace it with a third-party app. The question is, how practical will that be for users?

They are probably in it for the long run. This market is still developing, but everyone thinks it is going to be really big.

It's a threat that they are trying to make into a friend.

The biggest obstacle is people are pretty nervous about exposing things on the mainframe as a Web service that anybody can access,

Sun is coming out with something like this later than IBM ( Profile , Products , Articles ) or Microsoft ( Profile , Products , Articles ) .

You could definitely link complex event processing into a service-oriented network.

The first wave was ... companies automating their procurement processes. The second wave, happening right now, is trading communities, ... The next wave is going to be like the Chicago Commodities Exchange: instant fulfillment done completely on the fly.

The Java services are not quite mature enough for full EAI. This technology is going to be essential, and companies will want it in-house.