BEA
Systems and Salesforce.com Announce Strategic Alliance to Deliver
BEA WebLogic Workshop Java Controls for sforce BEA Systems,
Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure
software company, and salesforce.com, the world leader in
delivering software-as-service, today announced a strategic
alliance to provide services-oriented application development
solutions based on BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 and the BEA WebLogic
Enterprise PlatformT. The companies' alliance will help advance
sforce - the first client/service application development framework
that enables enterprises to rapidly build and deliver business
applications using the software-as-service model.
When will these guys get? You don't implement industry
standards in order to become product or vendor dependent. Web
Services support should not reduce choice of Application Servers. I
guess we need to show them what I mean via our eCRM; it services
will be SOAP consumable via a WSDL file and that's it.