Does the world really need two separate industry initiatives devoted to interoperability in SOA governance?
Panelists from technology companies in the governance space debated this question at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference on Thursday. The two initiatives under the spotlight included the Governance Interoperability Framework (GIF) and SOA Link, each of which is geared toward registries by the companies that began the initiatives, Systinet and Infravio.
GIF was founded by Systinet in April 2005. It features companies such as Actional, Hewlett-Packard, and Reactivity. SOA Link was organized by Infravio and counts as participants companies such as, once again, HP, along with Iona and JBoss. The initiative's formal unveiling happened last month.
