IBM exceeds benchmark

IBM's service-oriented architecture (SOA) WebSphere Application Server has shattered a popular industry benchmark for scalability and performance by more than 33% using technology that costs half the price of the competition, says CNN Money.

IBM delivered more than 50 million business transactions per hour, beating the previous mark held by Oracle in the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's (SPEC) SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark, an independent, industry-standard benchmark that measures the scalability and performance of Java 2 Enterprise Edition application servers.

IBM currently leads the industry in all of the categories of SPECjAppServer2004.

JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform from Red Hat is now available, reports Grid Today.

The solution provides SOA, application and business-process integration capabilities in a single, easy-to-consume enterprise distribution.

The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is the first comprehensive open source SOA product offering, designed to accelerate business execution within and across enterprises.

According to a recent survey by SOA governance company Amberpoint, nearly four out of 10 enterprises report their SOA implementations met all their goals, says IT Business Edge.

Sixty percent said SOA met most of their goals.

Furthermore, only 1.5% of SOA projects ended in failure, a figure that beats the industry average for all software projects.