Here is an great Real-Time Enterprise (RTE) strategic white paper by Vinod Khosla a highly respected industry veteran and VC.
According
to Kingsley, Vinod’s article (circa. 2002) covers business integration
areas and issues that provided his architectural blueprint for Virtuoso
2.5.
Idehen believes that “Enterprise Data & Information Integration,
Application Logic Integration, and Business Process Integration can be
implemented as part of a single product offering in the form of a
server instance that speaks many protocols by coherently implementing a
plethora of industry standards”.