I saw a BEA press release the other day, and was feeling a bit cheeky\ntonight, so I threw this together. April is just too far away. 8-)<\/p>\n\n
\nPress Release\n\nBEA embraces the Web for integration\nFriday April 1, 2005 6:00 am ET\nRegrets role in Web services. Vows to get down to business to solving\ncustomer integration problems.\n\nSAN JOSE, Calif. -- BEA Systems, Inc., the world's leading application\ninfrastructure software company, today announced that it was\ndiscontinuing any further support of \"Web services\", and was announcing\nsweeping organizational changes that will better position it to produce\nhigh quality products that enable the creation of services built on the\narchitectural principles that have made the Web such a success,\nincluding the constraints of the REST architectural style.\n\n\"It boggles the mind to realize what a huge mistake had been made with\nWeb services, and how this awesome integration platform - the Web - was\nright under our noses the whole time.\", said CTO Scott Dietzen. \"In\nretrospect, it's all so obvious, but that's small consolation when you\nconsider how much time and money we've wasted these past few years\".\nCEO Alfred Chuang added, \"BEA is proud to be the first major application\ninfrastructure software company to close the book on this dark chapter\nof IT history. We apologize to our existing customers for our role in\nthis debacle, and look forward to working with them to help put their\nservices where they belong, on the Web\".\n\nThe company also announced that David Orchard had accepted the role of\nChief Architect of the newly formed Semantic Web group, whose mission\nwill be to integrate the W3C's Resource Description Framework into BEA's\nproducts, enabling customers to further simplify data integration tasks.\n\"That's still XML, right?\", Dave was heard to say shortly after learning\nof his new assignment.\n\nAbout BEA\n\nBEA Systems, Inc. is the world's leading application infrastructure\nsoftware company, providing the enterprise software foundation for more\nthan 15,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the\nFortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic(R) brand are among the most\ntrusted names in business.\n\nHeadquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 77 offices in 31 countries\nand is on the Web at www.bea.com.\n<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I saw a BEA press release the other day, and was feeling a bit cheeky tonight, so I threw this together. April is just too far away. 8-) Press Release BEA embraces the Web for integration Friday April 1, 2005 6:00 am ET Regrets role in Web services. Vows to get down to business to […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,40],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-w3c","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}