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- BOA constricts SOA debate?
- BOA constricts SOA debate?The logical alternative to SOAI am sure that many people are still very confused about what SOA is. This confusion I think largely arises from the fact that SOA enthusiasts themselves have no clear idea about what SOA is. This also makes SOA hard to criticise as...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, BOA, SOA, Britton
- Discussion threads 2005-04-04
- The shape of things to come
- As Britton observes, Oracle's $10 billion absorption of PeopleSoft will mean more acceleration of integration efforts between various potential "killer apps" (sorry, Britton, couldn't resist) within the budding Web services and SOA space. The acquisition is also is proof of an immutable law of business: when two or more...
- Tags: Britton
- Blog posts 2004-12-13
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- Is Google trading access for positive media coverage?
- Is Google trading access for positive media coverage?We don't expect integrity any moreI don't trust any 'journalists' anymore, I just try to read everything I can and make my own conclusions. No one admits to their biases, nor do they admit to special considerations or past affiliations, except the...
- Tags: Blogging, Google Inc., news organization
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- EU approves Google's DoubleClick acquisition; Here comes the display ad ripples
- EU approves Google's DoubleClick acquisition; Here comes the display ad ripplesIsn't that wonderfulEuro trash approves the merger of two American companies. Pfffttt.....I can see I may have to find a different search engine...... unless Google cans doubleclick entirely. Doubleclick is flat out intrusive, underhanded, and intolerable. If...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Euro-trash, Google Inc., illegal war, advertisement, DoubleClick Inc., acquisition
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- Court tosses suit against Avvo, concluding algorithmic ratings are protected speech
- Court tosses suit against Avvo, concluding algorithmic ratings are protected speechThoughts from Avvo's CEODenise – Mike, you and some observant others have correctly characterized this case from the beginning as being about more than just Avvo. The lawsuit attacked not only the Avvo Rating but also the opinions of...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Channel management, Avvo
- Discussion threads 2007-12-20
- SAP gets SaaS: can it run with it?
- SAP gets SaaS: can it run with it?SAP SAASTh most impressive part about the new model is that SAP are willing to learn as we go along. Built on a platform that will be geared for success and will be open for discussion could benefit customers.Cornel SchoemanBritton Solutionshttp://www.businessone.co.za
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), SAP AG, software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2007-09-23
- SAP Business ByDesign: the "feel good factor"
- SAP Business ByDesign: the "feel good factor"Feel GoodNot only is it important that the screens look good, the functional aspect of software carries a much bigger weight when companies make a buying decision. SAP has successfully done this in SAP Business One, and would certainly continue this in SAP...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, SAP Business, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its Best
- SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its BestAbsolutely Ridiculous - A1S = Way2LateThis advertisement for SAP is ridiculous in its lack of objectivity. Even people inside of SAP are not this bullish (i.e. are more balanced in their analysis) How many years has A1s been under...
- Tags: Sales force management, Strategy, product innovation, SAP AG, SAP A1S, Brinkmanship, Force.com, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- FBI peering into virtual casinos
- Do their avatars wear shiny black shoes? The FBI has been poking around Second Life, at the invitation of 2L creators Linden Lab, to look into possibly illegal virtual gambling, but the government says its not sure if gambling in the fake world is illegal, Reuters reports. "We have...
- Tags: Law enforcement, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Microsoft, DOD to build medical data warehouse
- Microsoft, DOD to build medical data warehousegetting the job doneSmart move by the government.When you have the best software company in the world attempting a task, you know its going to get done.Unlike the FBI VCF project i.e. virtual case file, which was handled by a government...
- Tags: Databases, Storage, Servers, U.S. Department of Defense, Teradata, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server
- Discussion threads 2007-03-09
- Intelligent economy
- Long-time readers of this Weblog will recognize Britton Manasco's name as the founding co-author. When we first launched back in November 2004, Britton was the guiding hand in formulating and articulating the vital issues and opportunities in the SOA space. Britton's message always was to keep your feet on the...
- Tags: Britton Manasco
- Blog posts 2006-03-03
- Analyst thinks Google should buy Rearden Commerce
- In his latest "Alert Highlight," it might as well be called a blog, AMR’s Bruce Richardson muses over the "Google Economy," a subject not suffering from any lack of coverage these days. His final of five points stood out and deserves some attention:No. 5: Google should buy Rearden CommerceWhy...
- Tags: AMR&rsquo, s Bruce Richardson, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-10-28
- BPEL gets bopped... again
- Is BPEL the language of the people? In his latest post, Web services guru David Chappell wonders out loud if BPEL, or business process execution language, is really all it's cranked up to be. BPEL is seen as the glue that will loosely couple Web services components into an SOA....
- Tags: BPEL
- Blog posts 2005-10-28
- FBI Net-wiretapping rules face challenges
- FBI Net-wiretapping rules face challengesGood!It might be necessary for the courts to authorize eavesdropping from time to time when the evidence warrants it, but it is truly presumptuous to demand that private businesses facilitate such activities at their own expense.Don't know whether the regs in question are justified by current...
- Tags: Federal government, FBI, FBI NET-WIRETAPPING RULES, FBI Net-wiretapping, server
- Discussion threads 2005-10-24
- Survey: JBOWS will be around for a long time
- In his post above, Britton dissects today's webMethods survey news, and wants to know if it tells us what the levers of opportunity are to SOA. The survey results are inconclusive on that count. What the survey does tell us is we've only just begun our evolution from JBOWS, or...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2005-10-10
- SOA city, surburban angst?
- People often say SOAs will, or should, evolve just as cities have been evolving. What about suburban sprawl? Perhaps that is analogous to SOA as well. As a resident of the exurbs of the Philadelphia-New York megacorridor, it frankly seems like there isn't a whole lot of planning going on...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2005-10-07
- Microsoft: too little. IBM: too much.
- This is too ironic to pass up. The other day, I posted a piece about how Microsoft wasn't talking up SOA enough. Now, this article by Michael Meehan in SearchWebServices.com pops up -- stating that IBM is overdoing the whole SOA bit, with too many conflicting messages. "In the...
- Tags: IBM Corp., enterprise service buse, SOA
- Blog posts 2005-09-21
- 2006: 'broad and deep' SOA adoption ahead
- Yankee Group issued its latest survey findings on SOA adoption among 300 US companies, concluding that "2006 will be a benchmark year" for SOA. "What once was used primarily by large enterprises to rescue applications and processes in distress is now reaching ubiquitous implementation in the US, regardless of size...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2005-08-23
- The great ESB squabble of 2005
- Both my blogmates Dan Farber and Britton Manasco have provided pointers to excellent information on what enterprise service buses ESBs are all about. However, there is some confusion -- if not outright sniping -- over who invented ESBs to begin with. Datamonitor ComputerWire's Jason Stamper picked up on...
- Tags: Sonic Software, Enterprise Service Bus
- Blog posts 2005-08-08
- Is SOA decentralization the "kiss of death"?
- Is SOA decentralization the "kiss of death"?The kiss of deathSOA in general is the kiss of death for IBM and M$. Driving people into proprietary, centralized environments is in IBM and M$ best interests - so OF COURSE they would poo-poo decentrailzation. Its harder to do, and can be done...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Liebow, SOA
- Discussion threads 2005-07-25
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