dave linthicum

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Conference alert: let's make SOA work for a living

Welcome to Service Oriented Architecture, Phase 2. It's bigger, It's badder, it's all business.  None of this namby-pamby JBOWs stuff. None of these SOAPY-REST tantrums. SOA is all grown up now, and it's time it starts earning the bacon. I am serving as conference chair and...

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

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Is having SOA and Master Data Management at the same time a form of overkill?

Is building out SOA and a Master Data Management MDM-based infrastructure at the same time too much for organizations to handle? That's what Gartner's Andrew White found in a study of companies that were wrestling with the two efforts. He even observed that there is even fear...

Tags: SOA, Master Data Management, Dave Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-25

SOA and the economy: from slightly bearish to slightly bullish

Dave Linthicum, who keeps his finger on the pulse of SOA through his consulting work, said last year at this time that he was seeing a slowing in SOA projects -- as things got rocky with the economy. However, in one of his more recent posts, Dave...

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

Blog posts 2009-02-18

BriefingsDirect Analysts take Microsoft's pulse: Will the software giant peak in next few years?

BriefingsDirect Analysts take Microsoft's pulse: Will the software giant peak in next few years?Respect most of the comments but Dave Linthicum is a whack job!I respect and value everyone's opinion on this topic and conversation and it was interesting to read but where the hell did you find the whack...

Tags: cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, software, Microsoft Corp., Dave Linthicum, virtualization, stupid comment

Discussion threads 2008-10-31

First 2009 SOA predictions arrive; see fading of the hype

Dave Linthicum has beat everybody to the punch and issued his predictions for the year ahead in service oriented architecture. These are good predictions, my thoughts added: 1. The interest in cloud computing will drive many enterprises toward SOA. Agreed....

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

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Analyst: Google Chrome 'SOA ready'

There's been plenty of excellent commentary about Google's new Chrome browser provided by my colleagues here in the ZDNet community, so I'm not going to go into any nitty-gritty here. But to look at it from an enterprise perspective, Chrome may help lay the groundwork for a...

Tags: Google Inc., Client-server, SOA, Web Browser, Computing, Dave Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Web Browsers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-09-04

How to describe SOA in 100 words or less

Dave Linthicum has a way of cutting right to the chase. So if you need to explain the latest thinking in SOA to someone while riding on the elevator, in 100 words or less, here's a good way to describe the current state of affairs -- as the good, bad,...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2006-03-29

Additional Resources

News to know: Apple tablet; Android; Social Search; Netflix on PS3; Verizon

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Jason D. O'Grady: Times exec hints at Apple tablet Larry Dignan: Apple slate "impending," says NYT exec editor; Much...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Phone, Social Search, Sony PlayStation 3, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Federal government validates cloud computing

Last week, we surfaced the views of Michael Daconta, writing in Government Computer News, who cautioned government agencies from diving in too deep into new approaches to managing technology, such as cloud computing, SOA, and Agile development. It looks like the folks over at the General...

Tags: U.S. General Services Administration, Government, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-10

More SOA tools emerge in the cloud

It seemed just like yesterday that Dave Linthicum issued his challenge to the SOA industry: "Move to service-based pricing, I dare you!" (Actually it was a couple of weeks back, in one of his final posts at Real World SOA. Dave now makes his home ar a new InfoWorld site...

Tags: Performance, SOA, Simple Object Access Protocol, Tool, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SOAP, Web Services, Productivity, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-07

SOA's 'blind spot' -- where's the timely and trusted data? (2)

Last week, I reported on Ash Parikh's discussion on data being the missing link in SOA efforts. Companies are missing the effective establishment of data services that assure the information flowing through SOA-enabled applications is timely and accurate. Dave Linthicum also zeros in on this...

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

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Prediction: cloudy future threatens SOA vendors

Is this a good time to be an SOA vendor? Dave Linthicum, who has been both a player and informed observer of the Web services and SOA market over the past decade, predicts that cloud computing will force some SOA vendors out of business over the next...

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

Blog posts 2009-07-08

SOA enters 'Second Life'

Dave Linthicum saw Anne Thomas Manes' latest post on the "SOA is Dead" affair, and declared that it's time to move on from the 'SOA is dead' debate. "We're entering a new, and productive, era where SOA is providing its appropriate value." Hear, hear, well said. Anne herself said we...

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

Blog posts 2009-05-28

Justifying SOA: 12 key metrics to keep tabs on

I've had a great discussion going on over at the ebizQ site concerning the importance of measurement to SOA success. (Additional discussion is also taking place in an open forum at ebizQ.) Loraine Lawson joined the discussion, and did a stellar job of summarizing some of the...

Tags: ROI, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Roi/Tco, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-25

The Oracle-buys-Sun thing - 'Snorkel' - what's the deal with that?

"Thanks Larry for finally putting us out of our misery." -Tony Baer There's been a firehose of commentary to be found about today's announcement that Oracle intends to buy Sun, so I won't add to the noise. But I will point to some insightful remarks...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Dana, Miko, Programming Languages, Java, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Middleware, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-20

SOA and cloud journey -- separate ways

Should SOA and cloud be one in the same? Dave Linthicum, who works in both the SOA and cloud space has noticed a disturbing trend out there -- cloud teams operating separately from SOA teams. This is not good, he says: "The rationale...

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

Blog posts 2009-04-15

Bull market for SOA emerges -- or should that be Red Bull market?

Dave Linthicum really has a way with expressions, and I can relate to his latest admonition -- forget the endless hype and discussion around SOA and cloud computing, and just sling down a few Red Bulls and start rocking and rolling. I, too, am getting tired, just...

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

Blog posts 2009-04-08

SOA Consortium confab emits green glow

Jack Vaughan reports in SearchSOA that "green" was the color du jour at the recent SOA Consortium confab in Washington. IBM's Sandy Carter pointed out that economic conditions are causing businesses to take a harder look at the efficiencies of their processes. A byproduct of that scrutiny...

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

Blog posts 2009-03-26

Active Endpoints aims at greater process design and implementation productivity with ActiveVOS enhancements

Active Endpoints, maker of the ActiveVOS visual orchestration system, has kicked things up a notch with the recent release of ActiveVos 6.1, which incorporates new features and functions designed to make developers more productive. The latest offering from the Waltham, Mass. company provides what amounts to shrink-wrapped...

Tags: Business Process, Developer, BPM, BPEL, ActiveVos 6.1, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-03-18

SOA and cloud: clearing up the 'foggy' relationship

In a new article, Dave Linthicum says the most common question he gets nowadays is: “How will our organization move from SOA to cloud computing?” "That’s just not logical," he says. Why not? Because SOA is an architectural pattern and strategy, while cloud computing...

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

Blog posts 2009-03-10