CIO discusses the World Wide Web Consortium’s introduction of semantic web specifications.  As the article discusses, computer science is heading into some real breakthroughs that could make the near future very interesting. 

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The JBoss Innovation Awards for SOA have been announced, and CMSWire has the details.

Hewlett Packard has introduced their own SOA software, ITWeb confirms.

Accenture is moving along with their investment in SOA by launching a center for Oracle, Manufacturing Business Technnology reports.

Computerworld discusses what will happen with customer data in the recent Sun and Oracle deals.

ITWeb reports Microsoft has introduced a Daisy plugin that converts their OpenXML to DaisyXML, which is text-to-voice.

PC World has a free SOA white paper. 

ITBusinessEdge discusses integrating multiple SOAs.

The fight between Microsoft and IBM continues with MS claiming that IBM killed their chances of having OpenXML approved by the International Organization of Standardization, reports The Inquirer.

ComputerWorld.com reports on the debate over OpenXML between tech giants Microsoft and IBM.  IBM has seemingly been against the OpenXML technology, though they have already implemented it in some of their products.  Employees of both corporations are defending their turf in respective blogs.

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Just Systems is hoping to introduce the future of XML document authoring, CMSwire reports.

Burton Group has recommended that companies adopt Open XML over Open Document Format, according to ComputerWorld.com.

A study involving the use and deployment of SOA from IT professionals finds that it has been successful, searchSOA.com reports.

SearchSOA.com reports that Sun could be looking at getting into the data service and SOA business after buying MySQL.  Sun is attempting to become the leading open source SOA vendor, going against rival JBoss from Red Hat, Inc.  Sun could also be looking at purchasing an ETL tool vendor.

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The Open Web Developer’s Journal tries to answer the question, “Who’s responsible for SOA quality in a service-oriented architecture?”

PC World reports on Microsoft’s defense of the handling involving Open XML.

The ICT Policy Report reports that the Worldwide Web Consortium has published an XML-based language called SMIL 3.0 that allows for the creation of interactive multimedia presentations.

SiberLogic has released a content management system for managing XML data, CMS Wire reports.

IBM and Google are claimed to be supporting Office Open XML, Microsoft’s new format, ZDNet says.  Neither company has publicly supported the technology.

Oracle has potentially increased its status as an SOA brand after acquiring BEA for $7.2 billion, The Journal reports.