Press clippings 2010 / 2009
29/07/2010
Software AG Reaches First Milestone in Record Time in Global Integration Project with DHL’s Global Forwarding, Freight Division
- Software AG and its technology partner SOPERA reached the first milestone in their global IT integration project with DHL’s Global Forwarding, Freight division in a record four months
- DHL’s Global Forwarding, Freight division is the first to benefit from greater transparency for its Europe-wide shipments, ...
21/04/2010
Eclipse - Eclipse Announces New SOA Initiative
OTTAWA, Canada, April 21, 2010 - The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of a new SOA Industry Working Group. The goal of this new initiative is to define a common Equinox-based SOA platform, ...
14/04/2010
Heise Open Source - SOPERA ASF 3.3 integrates Java and .NET
SOPERA has released version 3.3 of its open source SOPERA ASF service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform. In addition to significant performance improvements, the latest release features optional support for the Java and .NET platforms. Support for ...
17/02/2010
Eclipse - Eclipse Foundation at CeBIT
Eclipse Foundation participates in new CeBIT theme island - showcases member company products and projects The Eclipse Foundation announced today that they will participate in CeBIT 2010 with a them...
03/12/2009
The Heise online UK - Eclipse SOA platform gets reinforcements
The goal of the Eclipse SOA initiative is to offer an Eclipse solution for implementing service-oriented architectures (SOA). A SOA platform for developing service-oriented applications has been available to download from the project's website since September.
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03/11/2009
Computerwelt Austria - OSBF showcases "Internet Service Bus" for secure cloud computing
The Interoperability Project Group from Europe’s open-source network, the Open Source Business Foundation, has successfully completed its first project to co-develop a platform – an Internet Service Bus (ISB) - for secure cloud computing. Numerous members cooperated on the ISB, which is based on Sopera ASF, an open-source SOA platform which integrates Java as well as .Net applications as services.
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03/11/2009
Silicon.de - secure cloud computing thanks to Internet Service Bus
The Open Source Business Foundation wraps ups its first project, a jointly-developed Internet Service Bus (ISB) that provides a platform for secure cloud computing. ISB is based on the Sopera ASF open-source SOA platform.
25/06/2009
Heise Newsticker - Swordfish SOA framework as part of Eclipse Galileo
The new Galileo simultaneous release consisting different Eclipse projects includes a runtime component, dubbed Swordfish, that provides an expandable framework for service-oriented architecture (SOA). The technology is based on the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) the Eclipse Foundation acquired from Deutsche Post in 2007.
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24/06/2009
Entwickler.de - Swordfish SOA Runtime Framework
Part of the Eclipse Galileo package was developed by the German open-source provider SOPERA as part of its "Swordfish” project to create a framework for service-oriented architecture.
24/06/2009
Heise Newsticker - Eclipse Galileo published
Numerous German committers and software publishers, including the likes of compeople, EclipseSource, itemis, Prosyst, SAP and Sopera, have played key roles in the current Galileo release.
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24/04/09
InformationWeek – the outlook is cloudy
By 2011, a quarter of all business applications will be to cloud-based. The basis for the interoperability this requires is being creating by a new OSBF project which makes data from various sources accessible via an Internet Service Bus. Microsoft, Sopera, 1&1, CORISECIO and Open-Xchange are all involved in the project.
08/04/2009
Computerwelt – Cloud-Computing on SOA-Basis
The project group on interoperability of the Open Source Business Foundation (OSBF) recently presented a platform for secure Cloud Computing developed jointly by several members. The Internet Service Bus (ISB) is intended to demonstrate how different online applications in the form of services can be made accessible via an integrated web application.
27/03/2009
Linux Magazin – Sopera GmbH and Eclipse Foundation: Soa in the Clouds
In addition to the development environment, Eclipse SOA, and the release of Eclipse Swordfish announced for early April come the new Version 3.2 of the in-house SOA platform, ASF, and the interoperable Internet Service Bus presented at Cebit in cooperation with Microsoft among others, which is intended to make SOA possible in a Computing Cloud.
25/03/2009
Zdnet - Eclipse Swordfish OSGi ESB enters fray for SOA market acceptance, Sopera to add support
Ricco Deutscher, Sopera’s CTO, managing director and co-founder: “In today’s economic climate, there is definite opportunity for open source SOA. Plus, we see emerging requirements for modern middleware that includes SOA, and helps prepare for cloud-based applications.”
24/03/2009
Jaxenter – Eclipse SOA Initiative from Sopera
The initiative is aimed at developing an integrated and coherent SOA platform within Eclipse. That also includes development of a new service registry/repository within the context of a new Eclipse project, as all open source registry/repository projects existing today are according to Sopera unsuitable for the enterprise level.
23/03/2009
Computer Zeitung - Enterprise Service Bus from Eclipse supports distributed rollout of applications
“Last year we announced the strategy for open source runtime technologies based upon Equinox and OSGi”, explains Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. “Swordfish is one example of the progress we have realized within the context of that strategy.”
23/03/2009
Application Developement Trends - Swordfish SOA To Become Part of Eclipse
Swordfish is designed to provide an extensible framework that allows application developers using Eclipse to build service-oriented business applications.Swordfish supports connectors for BPM/BPEL engines, legacy systems, packaged software and applications in Java and .NET.
20/03/2009
Entwickler.com – Sopera Release 3.2 published
The new release now includes integration components for Talend Open Studio, an open source software for data integration, and Hyperic HQ, an open source solution for system management and monitoring, as well as expanded platform support and new security features.
19/03/2009
Heise Developer – SOA Plattform Sopera expanded
The new release now includes integration components for Talend Open Studio, an open source software for data integration, and Hyperic HQ, an open source solution for system management and monitoring, as well as expanded platform support and new security features.
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06/03/2009
Computerwoche – OSBF brings SOA safely into the Cloud
The Internet Service Bus (ISB) demonstrates how different applications can be combined into platform-neutral services and used securely. For the first time, the Internet Service Bus also shows how service oriented architecture (SOA) concepts can serve as the basis for Cloud Computing.
02/02/2009
Business Technology – Business Award for SOA and eShop solutions
For the OSBA, Bonn-based Sopera GmbH presented the Sopera SOA Platform, which is based on a SOA Runtime Framework and other OS technologies, such as Eclipse, and offers the customer provider-neutrality and planning certainty in building a service-oriented architecture.
31/01/2009
Java-Magazin - Open Source SOA
Best Practice for SOA – with that aspiration, the open source solution Sopera is positioning itself both in the environment of open source SOA solutions as well as versus closed source products. Sopera is based on the platform of SOA pioneer Deutsche Post and since 2007 has blossomed from a freeware offering into a fully fledged open source alternative.
30/01/2009
Linux Kommunale - Open Source Business Award 2009 with two first places
Two companies are occupying first place in this year’s Open Source Business Award (OSBA): Oxid eSales AG and Sopera GmbH. The prize money in a total of 65,000 euros awarded for the first two places will be divided.
29/01/2009
Heise Open Source - 75.000 Euro for Open Source
Sopera was founded in 2007. In the meantime, Sopera has grown to 41 employees and with twelve customers, apart from Deutsche Post also including Greenpeace and EADS, is realizing annual revenues of around three million euros.
22/01/2009
Pressebox – Sopera and Talend agree OEM Partnership
SOPERA, provider of an open source platform for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) is building the data integration software from Talend into its products.