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Is SOA 'Snake Oil Architecture'?

Grady Booch, IBMs resident software architecture guru, warns that the market is being overrun by what he calls "Snake Oil-oriented Architecture." In a recent post, he reaffirms that he believes SOA will deliver value to organizations, but that Snake Oil-oriented Architecture "showmen" are selling too much of the sizzle,...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2006-10-23

Inch by inch it's a cinch; mile by mile it's a trial

In a recent commentary, Grady Booch, an IBM Fellow and software architect's architect, says the failure of the FBI's multi-million-dollar Virtual Case File project provides a lesson that extends to all big-budget projects. The issue is that such projects try to do too much in one big bang. This should...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Grady Booch, SOA, Web service, Web

Blog posts 2005-01-19

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What if Microsoft had picked a different Chief Software Architect?

Microsoft has been orchestrating carefully for the past few years the transition of Bill Gates from Chief Software Architect CSA and regular participant in product planning meetings, to "mere" Chairman. (Gates' actual "last day" is June 30.) But it turns out Microsoft may have been planning this...

Tags: Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Software morality

Charles Cooper recently interviewed Grady Booch, one of the developers of the Unified Modeling Language UML, on the subject of software morality. Mr. Booch, in short, defended the application of moral principles to software development as a means by which to curtail the more negative uses of software (among other...

Tags: Software, Economics, Tools & Techniques, Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2007-10-16

News to know: Microsoft Live Search; Google 2.0; Newton's return?

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Five take aways on Microsoft’s new Live Search. Gallery right. Microsoft's new search guru talks strategy. Larry Dignan: Pondering Google 2.0: How will it get to $100 billion in revenue? Microsoft, Google square off in Washington....

Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Live Search, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems

Blog posts 2007-09-27

Apply object-oriented analysis and design to the problem of software complexity

Failure to master the complexity of software often results in projects that are late, over budget, and deficient in their stated requirements. In this sample chapter from Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications, 3rd Edition, examine the case for using object-oriented analysis and design to master the complexity associated...

Tags: Software, Object-oriented Analysis, Object-oriented, Addison-Wesley, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Book chapters 2007-04-26

SOA too slow? Let the debate begin

In these fast times, attaching the term 'slow' to a technology can be a death knell. But that's a perception about SOA that now lingers. Joab Jackson of Government Computer News recently posted some perspectives about the slowness issue. This quote just about sums up the challenge: "Dennis Nadler, chief...

Tags: performance, SOA

Blog posts 2006-05-18