Michael Rowley writes: New technology for simplifying development is always good, right? New APIs and servers just make it easier to develop SOA applications, right? And, of course, developers have all the time they need to adjust to the big changes that SOA development imposes on them.

Today, in the winter of our economic discontent, Active Endpoints has announced something fun: a contest at http://www.absolutebpm.com in which five lucky winners will take home some very cool prizes including a T-Mobile G1 smart phone with Google and a Logitech Squeezebox Boom music network system.

The contest rules are very simple:

SOA-EDA.Blogspot.com:- "Todd Biske has written a book on his ideas of SOA governance and states that SOA governance is the key to successful SOA adoption in your organization. Of course, reading a 200 page book will not put a SOA governance layer in place. But it will definitely help you evangelize the need for it in your organization. It will help you to find the answers on what, why, how, when, where and who with regard to the governance aspects of SOA.

Newgen OmniFlow Version 8.0 is the next-generation BPM product, which comes with greater flexibility and agility, and enhanced features to address the dynamically changing process requirements of the companies across industries. OmniFlow 8.0 is Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and BPEL compliant. OmniFlow 8.0 becoming BPEL compliant will help easy integration with other applications through Web services.