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StrikeIron Jump-Starts 2008 with Multiple Industry Honors

CMP’s Intelligent Enterprise Web site announced its 2008 Editors’ Choice Award winners with StrikeIron included among its 36 “Companies to Watch” in the enterprise application category. StrikeIron was also included in Robin Bloor’s list of “10 IT Companies to Watch in 2008.”

StrikeIron Expands Web Services Marketplace with New Financial and Business Data Services from Gale

In-depth financial and corporate information on hundreds of thousands of U.S. and international companies: Two new Financial and Business data services from Gale, part of Cengage Learning, have been added to StrikeIron's expanding Web Services Marketplace: Gale Business Information Web Service 1.0.0 and Gale Business Intelligence Web Service 1.0.0.

StrikeIron Delivers Data Web Services via IBM QEDWiki

StrikeIron Inc., a provider of Data as a Service (DaaS), today announced that it has aligned with IBM to deliver premium web services via IBM's enterprise mashup maker QEDWiki. Content available includes business intelligence services such as multiple D&B services, Address Verification, Email Verification, Currency Rates and many more.

StrikeIron Super Data Pack

Start working with Web services and live data instantly! The Super Data Pack brings together dozens of Web services into one easy-to-use “Super” Web service. With the Super Data Pack, developers and end-users can leverage multiple data sources for use within a diverse set of rich applications at no cost or with no commitment.

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Theme: Software Standardization, Web Services, Transactions, and Mobility
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Title: CTO of IONA

In his role as Chief Technology Officer at IONA, Mr. Newcomer is responsible for directing and communicating IONA's technology roadmap, as well as IONA's product strategy as it relates to standards adoption, architecture, and product design.

Mr. Newcomer joined IONA in November 1999, after nearly 16 years at Digital/Compaq, where he held a variety of technical and management roles. He joined IONA as the company's transaction processing architect, and also served as IONA's Vice President of Engineering, Web Services Integration Products.

Mr. Newcomer leads IONA's participation in the standardization activities around Web services, and was a founding member of the XML Protocols Working Group at W3C, which produced SOAP 1.2. He is currently editor of the Web Services Architecture specification at the W3C and is IONA's primary representative to OASIS and WS-I. Mr. Newcomer is co-author and editor of the recently published Web Services Composite Application Framework (WS-CAF) set of specifications submitted to OASIS.

A frequent speaker at industry and company events and contributor to popular journals and Web sites, Mr. Newcomer is the author of the best-selling Understanding Web Services (published in May 2002 by Addison-Wesley), and co-author with Phil Bernstein of Principles of Transaction Processing (published in January 1997 by Morgan Kaufman). His new book, Web Services Integration, is due in 2004 from Addison-Wesley.

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Web Services Transactions

Whether or not transactions are a good fit for Web services entirely depends upon what you're trying to do.

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