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Annrai OToole’s blog

CEO, Cape Clear Software

As the leader of Cape Clear, O'Toole drives the overall vision and corporate strategy for the company. He joined Cape Clear in November 2000 to participate in the major opportunity being created by the emergence of the Web Services technologies and the massive benefits they could bring to the challenges of creating and integrating applications. Prior to joining Cape Clear, O'Toole founded and served as Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of IONA Technologies. O'Toole began his career working with many European and international standards bodies to develop standards for software interoperability. With these and other initiatives, he has helped define the direction of the computer industry. He holds an MSc in Computer Science and an Electronic Engineering degree from Trinity College, Dublin.

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November 15, 2006

SOA and the Business User

Data Management

In this the second article on the five key issues we see in the advancement of SOA, I will focus on the set of business issues around SOA. Put simply, I am trying to answer the question: "Why should the business user care about SOA?" Before jumping into this, I would like to make a small digression.

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July 24, 2006

Is Enterprise Service Bus the hype of the minute ...

Data Management

In a recent post , James McGovern posed a few questions about my latest post on the Forrester ESB report. The four main issues that James raises are:

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