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Forbes exposes SOA's 'dirty little secret'

Does SOA put IT departments into the software manufacturing business? by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Forbes, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Manufacturing, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick, Application, Information Technology, Dan Woods, Strategy, Management

Blog posts 2008-11-11

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SOA services: build now, worry about reuse later?

LifecycleI agree with Dan Woods in that SOA deserves to be revived.However, I disagree with his "two stage" approach. To reiterate, he suggests that stage one is you build services willy nilly, and in stage two, you govern them.The disagreement stems from the following reality. 99% of the world is...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, SOA, sheep

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance

Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...

Tags: Performance, SAP AG, Financial Planning, Change Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Verizon trashes AT&T over its lousy event coverage

Verizon trashes AT&T over its lousy event coverageAs long as customers are willing to buy ...Jason,AT&T must feel that as long as people are willing to purchase an iPhone knowing full well that they have to also subscribe to AT&T's service, they really don't have to do much to make...

Tags: Smart phones, AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Apple iPhone, network

Discussion threads 2009-07-28

Is SOA governance also its own silo?

The purpose of SOA governance is to cut across all the silos and get all the business on the same page, using the same services. However, my chum Tony Baer over at Ovum is seeing evidence that organizations may be spawning a brand-new silo in the process...

Tags: SOA, SOA Governance, Silo, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Market player machinations may warp, but not 'kill', SOA

Dave Linthicum recently offered a somewhat dour assessment of the SOA market, determining that there at least five things killing SOA as we know it these days: Venture capitalists by micromanaging SOA vendors; Sarbanes-Oxley by scaring away SOA vendors; Big consulting firms (by mismanaging SOA...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Forbes rewrites the history of open source

Forbes rewrites the history of open sourceI guess it was a political articleYou just convinced me that the purpose of this article in Forbes being written was to score political points. Which makes its rewriting of history doubly-disgusting.Libertarian?I'm pretty sure the GPL is normally associated with socialism, not libertarianism. Libertarians...

Tags: open source, Forbes, libertarian, software

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Mapping a submarine volcano with a robot

Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WHOI have recently used their robotic underwater vehicle called ABE short for Autonomous Benthic Explorer to 'paint' stunning images of a submarine volcano submerged about a mile deep in the Pacific Ocean, and located about 290 nautical miles northeast of New Zealand. As...

Tags: Robot, Sonar, ABE, Caldera, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-21

Why Nerd Blossom's feet matter more than Gates' brain

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk considers Mark Cuban's dancing skills and his significance in the tech world, a place where marketing most often lacks the "human" touch. Next Monday, he will be performing the Paso Doble or the Viennese Waltz. With his teeth. ...

Tags: Mark Cuban, Tech World, Chris, TVs, Gender And Diversity, Tv & Home Theater, Strategy, Marketing Research, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Management, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-12

Weekend bits: BEA, executive moves, the triple header

Sitting at O'Hare airport in Chicago, subject to another United Airlines delay, I found a few tidbits worth sharing before I board the place for San Francisco. On the heels of its annual user conference, BEA investor and so-called corporate raider Carl Ichan is pushing for a...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., BEA Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Six Apart Ltd., Technology, Legacy Application, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-15

Your favorite Web services are a long way from 'five nines'

Your favorite Web services are a long way from 'five nines'The problem is structuralMuch of the infrastructure that powers the internet was designed for a previous generation when client-server was considered leading edge. Processors are an order of magnitude faster, disks store 100X more data, bandwidth is more plentiful ....

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Channel management, processor, software-as-a-service, Web, Web service, Internet

Discussion threads 2007-08-17

First views of an underwater eruption

When the National Science Foundations Ridge 2000 program was launched in the late 1990s to study active undersea volcanic activities, researchers chose several areas of interest. One of those is located about 400 miles west of Mexico along a massive volcanic mountain range called the East Pacific Rise. When the...

Tags: Energy &, Environment, Science &, Nature, eruption

Blog posts 2006-11-26

Off-topic: Inject, drip, convalesce, and thank you.

This is completely off-topic, but tomorrow morning, I'm heading to a neurologist's office to have a pain killing formula epidurally injected and dripped onto the root of the sciatic nerve that sits between vertebrae L5 and S1 in my lower back. For close to...

Tags: med, disc

Blog posts 2006-03-08

Podcastus interruptus

Just posted the latest Gillmor Gang with Riya's Munjal Shah, with whom Doc Searls the Attention Bunny and I had a spirited conversation at 1AM several weeks ago in Mike Arrington's TechCrunch kitchen. The Gang was interrupted after an hour by a crash of TimeWarner's 800 servers, and by the...

Tags: Gang

Blog posts 2005-11-30

Intel, Apple coupling could woo Hollywood

Intel, Apple coupling could woo HollywoodWhatever woos Hollywood, doe not woo ConsumersOur ContentOur ComputersOur RulesYou can't fool us, greedy greedy Hollywood!CONTRIBUTE TO OLIVER STONES DRUG HABIT, SUPPORT DRM!Great times aheadThis alignment between Apple and Intel could be a watershed event for the application of PC economics to the now closed...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Branding, Digital media, Consumer electronics, Intel Corp., Apple Inc., computer

Discussion threads 2005-06-05