
| SOA World
April 27, 2008
Exclusive Q&A with John Goodson
Jeremy Geelan of Sys-Con Media speaks to John Goodson about how data services are the new frontier for data integration |

| InfoWorld
April 7, 2008
IBM, Others Bring Event-Driven Tools to SOA
Article recaping announcements made during IBM's Impact 2008 SOA conference. The DataDirect Shadow platform is mentioned for its event-driven capabilities for mainframe integration in SOA environments |

| IBM Systems Magazine
March 1, 2008
DataDirect Releases Shadow 7 Mainframe Integration Platform
News feature highlighting features found in Shadow v. 7 including specialty engine exploitation capabilities and the ability to transfer BPEL workload to the zAAP engine for improved performance and lowered mainframe TCO. |
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| Application Development Trends
February 7, 2008
DataDirect Offers XQuery MySQL Product
News article discussing the availability of DataDirect XQuery for MySQL Enterprise Server. The article also highlights Sun Microsystems' acquisition bid of $1 billion for MySQL |
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| SOA World
February 1, 2008
Redefining the Economics of Mainframe SOA
Feature cover story by DataDirect Chief Architect, Gregg Willhoit that examines next-generation middleware to exploit IBM System z specialty
engines, redefine mainframe total cost of ownership and spur expanded legacy participation in SOA |
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| Enterprise Open Source Magazine
February 1, 2008
DataDirect Technologies Brings XQuery Functionality to MySQL
News brief on the availability of DataDirect XQuery for MySQL open source database users. |
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| SD Times
February 1, 2008
Does .NET with LINQ Beat Java? DataDirect's Jonathan Bruce weighs in on the framework's data query capabilities. Bruce shares, LINQ combined with its tooling gives .NET shops a productivity advantage that the Java community cannot match but he is also quick to point out that LINQ is an unproven technology that is new to the market and Java data access is rounded and stable. |
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| Redmond Developer News
January 7, 2008
Developer Product Briefs January's New Tools and Apps for Your Toolkit includes DataDirect XQuery and XML Converters |
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| IBM Systems Magazine
January/February 2008
Product News: Shadow 7 The new release of DataDirect's mainframe-integration platform incorporates patent-pending technology to exploit IBM specialty engines, helping customers reduce TCO and improve service-oriented architecture (SOA) and data-connectivity capabilities
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