BEA's future as seen by Adam Bosworth

Recent presentations by Adam Bosworth, BEA's Chief Architect, have raised my interest in his company's future direction. Looking through these slides it seems that BEA is turning into an XML messaging company. There is almost no mention of Java or J2EE. For whatever it is worth, the word "Java" is only mentioned four times in this presentation, but "XML" can be found more than 20 times. Is innovation in the pure J2EE space over?

After some research I discovered that Adam Bosworth held a keynote presentation at last year's VLDB conference. The title of his submitted paper was "Data Routing Rather than Databases: The Meaning of the Next Wave of the Web Revolution to Data Management". This is a very interesting read and apparently the foundation for his newly articulated future for BEA.

# permalink posted on Feb 17 2003

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