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- Survey: mainframes now being service-enabled, not replaced
- A new survey confirms what many of us already suspected: that mainframe and other legacy systems are no longer being ripped up and replaced. Instead, the operative term is now "modernization." And SOA has helped fuel this sea change.A new survey finds modernizing is preferable to replacing Big Iron. Times...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, SOA Surveys and Research, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- SOA business case: smaller is better
- There's been quite a bit of debate as of late as to whether SOA should start small and incrementally, or be introduced from the top down as a transformative venture. The word out of the recent BEA Systems executives annual Arch 2 Arch customer conference in Nice, France, is 'start...
- Tags: Vendor Watch, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- O'Toole: The era of Big SOA is over
- In previous blogs, we talked about the oxymoron of "SOA Suites" (SOA is supposed to free us from vendor lock-in, right?), and the growing tendency of vendors to want to package anything and everything into Big Honking SOA suites.In a recently published interview at TechTarget, Cape Clear's Annrai O'Toole says...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, Vendor Watch
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- Calling all disruptors: the perfect storm of SOA, SaaS, and open source beckons
- I just had the opportunity to check out the World Innovation Forum being held this week in New York, in which Clayton Christensen, Harvard professor and author of The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution, talked about the paradox that emerges when new technologies commoditize the marketplace. Namely, that when...
- Tags: Vendor Watch, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- SaaS Opens Up SOA Beyond the Firewall
- The convergence of service-oriented architecture and Software as a Service lays open the possibilities of bringing in services from outside the firewall, which can be "snapped" into place within a company's infrastructure. This also means that services a company creates can be introduced to a broader market beyond the firewall.Miko...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Saugatuck: why SOA adoption is at a 'crawl'
- Maybe it's because vendors still sell SOA as toolsets, versus concepts. (Who can sell a "concept," right?) Or, maybe business users are perplexed by the technospeak that typically is invoked in SOA discussions. For a variety of reasons, SOA adoption has been moving at a snail's pace within enterprises, according...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, SOA Surveys and Research, Vendor Watch
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- How to keep too many cooks from spoiling the SOA broth
- As part of InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum held last week in New York, I hosted a podcast with with special guest Ashish Mohindroo, Oracle's Fusion Middleware Director. Ashish was a featured speaker at the Forum. In our chat, Ashish laid out the case clearly and concisely for SOA governance. Many...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, Vendor Watch
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- SAP chief: Collaborate or die
- At this weeks big SAP confab in Atlanta, SOA as a enabler for collaboration between companies was front and center of SAP CEO Henning Kagermanns address to the 14,000 assembled attendees. At the confab, the ERP giant announced that its "Enterprise SOA" strategy is on track, and that it intends...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, Vendor Watch
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Vendors promote an oxymoron -- 'SOA suites'
- "Jumbo shrimp" and "government organization" are classic examples of oxymorons, but is the idea of an "SOA suite" also just as much a contradiction of terms? After all, SOA is not supposed to be about suites, bundles, integration packages, or anything else that smacks of vendor lock-in. ...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, SOA Suite
- Blog posts 2007-03-11
- Transformation, agility: are expectations too high for SOA?
- Theres been a lot of discussion lately about SOA "failures," and already, statistics are showing up showing that this percentage or that percentage of companies consider their SOA projects to be failures. Expect to see plenty more of such surveys over the coming months and years. Survey data shows...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, SOA Surveys and Research, Vendor Watch
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Web 2.0 gets equal billing with SOA in new IBM book
- IBMs SOA guru, Sandy Carter, has just published a great advocacy book on why and how and where businesses need SOA, covering a lot of the bases of business thinking.Interestingly, she also devotes a chapter to Web 2.0 (wikis, mashups, collaboration). In fact, the title of the book, The New...
- Tags: General, Business ROI, Vendor Watch
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Another view: clear IT 'clutter' before thinking about SOA
- Some call it IT "sprawl," and theres plenty of agreement that theres too much "clutter" in our enterprises. Is it wise to potentially add new infrastructure via SOA on top of what may already be a tangled mess of applications and systems?As reported by Brian Sommer in a new post...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, Vendor Watch, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- BEA exec: Get business users involved in app development
- Okay, lets review our checklist of who needs to be educated or enlightened about SOA. Unfortunately, it looks like everyone up and down the value chain, including IT:The financial community doesnt get SOA. Some CTOs are not enamored, as of yet, by SOA. Many IT professionals/architects arent ready with the...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, SOA, Vendor Watch, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Analyst: Wall Street doesn't quite get SOA yet
- To paraphrase Gordon Gekko, is SOA a "dog with fleas"? Shouldnt analysts be excited over the prospect that enterprises are finally getting the tools and knowledge they need to break down their internal silos and move forward with confidence into the new digital realm? Would Gekko, the corporate raider in...
- Tags: General, Business ROI, Vendor Watch, SOA
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Let's bring Steve Jobs in to make SOA a hit
- Is SOA suffering from a failure of imagination? Perhaps the industry needs someone who can really capture the imagination of business decision makers to really make service-oriented architecture all that it can and should be.For all the vendor brouhaha around SOA, theres one voice that has been notably absent --...
- Tags: SOA, Web Services, Vendor Watch, Business ROI, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
Additional Resources
- RealNetworks: Rip those DVDs (with a dash of DRM)
- RealNetworks on Monday launched RealDVD, an application that allows you to rip DVDs to your hard drive with limits set by digital rights management software. The company announced the software along with the opening of DemoFall in San Diego. RealDVD (Techmeme, statement, site) is supposed to make...
- Tags: Digital-rights Management, RealNetworks Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), DVD, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum
- Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water. The search giant filed for a patent in February that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Computing Unit, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry...
- Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Green IT, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Corporate Communications, Rootkits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Game Players, Marketing, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Commercial development strategies
- For large scale, commercial, software development the right recipe starts with a Unix development and testing environment - even if you plan to sell mainly on Windows. The reason for that is simple: business success is more about how you build your sales than it is about how you build...
- Tags: Strategy, Environment, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Sun Solaris, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Looking forward to 2018, let's hear your predictions
- Google is now officially 10 years old, an impressive notion considering their rapid dominance over any and all things that get in their way. Even Microsoft is shaking in their boots, 10 years ago people would have laughed that off as mpossible. The fact that Google has risen...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Phone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Browser Landscape Google, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
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