The IBM SOA Sandbox lets you increase your SOA skills through practical, hands-on experience with the IBM SOA entry points. These SOA entry points -- people, process, information, reuse, and connectivity -- are based upon real customer experiences and provide a simple way to get started with SOA. The SOA Sandbox makes it easy to learn about these entry points by providing a low-risk "tinker, test, and try" learning environment that's designed for enterprise architects, integration developers, and Web developers, but available to everyone.

The IBM SOA Sandbox provides a mix of full-version software trials and "try online" hosted environments where you can explore tutorials and get architectural guidance. You'll also find online demos, best practice documentation, and quick-start guides, all integrated into a low-risk, hands-on format that provides practical applications of SOA entry points to accelerate learning.

SOAWorld Magazine’s “SOA World Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards”
SOA World Magazine announced that nominations are now open for the SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards, which recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the "Oscars of the Software Industry," has been one of the most prestigious industry award programs for more than a decade. This year's SOA awards will be given in 19 categories and the award-winning products and services will be selected by SOA World Magazine readers. Winners will be announced at the SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East, June 23-24 in New York City.

Service-oriented architectures have evolved over the past few years out of the original vision of loosely coupled Web services replacing constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy, supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA aspects or entire solutions.

Nominated Products and Services by Category: 

• Best App Server
• Best Automation Tool
• Best BPM Engine
• Best Framework
• Best IDE
• Best Integration Tool
• Best Legacy Adapter
• Best Open Source SOA Tool
• Best Portal Platform
• Best Security Solution
• Best SOA or XML Site
• Best SOA or XML Training
• Best SOA Platform
• Best SOA Testing Tool
• Best SOA Tool
• Best SOA/Web Services Book
• Best Web Services Utility
• Best XML Database
• Best XML Parser

SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 Sponsors
In 2007, SOA World Conference & Expo was sponsored by the world’s leading SOA companies including Active Endpoints, BEA Systems, Laszlo Systems, Nexaweb, TIBCO Software, WSO2, IBM, Parasoft, webMethods, Sybase, B-hive, iTKO, Managed Methods, Mellanox Technologies, Nastel, NextAxiom, RingCube, Two Roads Professional Resources, Web Age Solutions, Solstice Software, Fiorano Software, iTKO, Layer 7 Technologies, PushToTest, Ruby on Gears, Farata Systems, Tenfold, Thinstall, Trivera Technologies, BZMedia, Extension Media, GoingToMeet, ITtoolbox, Methods & Tools, SDTimes, Software Test & Performance, TechTracker Media, ZapThink, OASIS, and SOA Consortium.

• Mindreef Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choices Awards"
• Mindreef Nominated for Best SOA Tool By SOAWorld Magazine's "Readers' Choices Awards"
• iTKO Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choices Awards"
• Fiorano Software Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• Intel Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• DataDirect Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• HP Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• WSO2 Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• MomentumSI Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• SOA World Magazine 6th Annual "Readers' Choice Awards" Nominations Open
• Magic Software Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• Green Hat Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• Appistry Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• MuleSource Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• TIBCO Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• ActiveEndpoints Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• IBM Corporation Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"