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The WOA story emerges as better outcomes sought for SOA

The WOA story emerges as better outcomes sought for SOAWOA vs. SOA Epitomizes the Enterprise - Web 2.0 DivideI'm not sure it is a contest, so much as choosing the right approach for your architecture.SOA emerged from enterprise IT thinking, where networks are built systematically, not organically. So, if...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Software as a Service (SaaS), Web 2.0, Web services, Channel management, cloud computing, Enterprise software, WOA, SOA, WOA story, Web

Discussion threads 2008-09-06

The WOA story emerges as better outcomes sought for SOA

Over the summer the enterprise IT blogosphere was swept up in a conversation around the concepts that many are calling Web-Oriented Architecture, or WOA. A different way to think about service-oriented architecture, WOA extolls a different but related set of technologies, in particular how to apply them in specific ways...

Tags: Web, Business, SOA, Organization, WOA, WOA Story, REST, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-06

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Skype for iPhone tops 1M downloads in two days

Skype for iPhone tops 1M downloads in two daysThat's great[Update: This doesn't look good]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/03/deutsche_telekom_blocks_skype/Only,Try running Skype 'in the background' on your iPhone Folks--you can't.Here's an unhappy face for you::(Get a Nokia N-series or E-series and run multiple apps in the background just fine.In fact, I recommend not installing Skype for...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Skype Technologies S.A.

Discussion threads 2009-04-03

CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!

Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least.  So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...

Tags: Social Media, Business, Tool, CRM, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-11-18

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

Analyst Insights podcast examines WOA-SOA continuum with keen eye on cloud computing

Read a full transcript of the podcast.  There's been welling interest and discussion lately around so-called Web Oriented Architecture WOA and established Services Oriented Architecture SOA, and how the two relate. And then there's the whole cloud computing trend, and well ... how does that relate, too?...

Tags: Web, Cloud Computing, SOA, Podcasts, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-25

Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA

The striking contrast between the stories that we've been hearing lately about the slow going of SOA initiatives in the enterprise and the vibrant and rapidly growing ecosystems similar to them on the consumer Web has been generating a lot of debate and discussion in the enterprise IT community recently....

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, SOA, Organization, Enterprise, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-04-17

IBM's 'Blue Cloud' signals the tipping point for enterprise IT into services model

I recall a front page story I wrote for InfoWorld back in 1997. At the time there were still plenty of naysayers about whether websites were a plaything or a business tool. There was talk of clicks and mortar, and how the mortar would always determine business outcomes. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Red Hat Inc., Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Citrix Systems Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Service, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-11-15

Sun to swap out ME for SE on mobile devices -- high risk alert!

Looks like Sun will slowly dump, ie wither on the vine, Java mobile and try to drive Java SE down into the class of mobile converged devices like an iPhone. As I said earlier, iPhone has ushered in the need to do something about mobile Java fast -- but this...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Sun Microsystems Inc., Mobile Device, Programming Languages, Advertising & Promotion, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Marketing, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-20

Top Technologies for 2008

Gartner has just published its list of top 10 strategic technologies for 2008. I guess I'm a sucker for stuff like this having just spoken with a bunch of CIOs and reported on the results here. The biggest finding that I found in my research was...

Tags: Web, Software-as-a-service, Analyst, Gartner Inc., Technology, Mashup, Metadata Management, Computing Fabric, Channel Management, Virtualization, Roi/Tco, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Utility Computing, Marketing, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2007-10-10

Review: Apple's new keyboards (Verdict: Atrocious)

Review: Apple's new keyboards (Verdict: Atrocious)Whooah there... "tactile feedback"?[i]"...Flat keys don’t provide enough tactile feedback as to where you are the key contributing to errors."[/i]I thought tactile feedback was a thing of the past, now that the iPhone doesn't have keys?C'mon Apple fans, does tactile feedback matter or not?Someone at...

Tags: Keyboards, NEXT BEST, keyboard, new keyboard, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise

For well over a year now we've seen reports and announcements from a major industry analyst firms and others tracking the movement of Web 2.0 ideas into the enterprise. Gartner, Forrester, McKinsey, and many others have all weighed in on the trends or made recommendations, sometimes cautious and sometimes...

Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Complexity, Product, Tagging, Business, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Syndication, User Experience, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-08-27

The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1

The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1SOA vs Web.2.0Today results that Web 2.0 is everything. I just read a couple of days ago Dave Pode from the NY Times another definition. Web 2.0 is for him, the customer. When I was going to college, I took...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Channel management, advertisement, Web 2.0, SOA, Web

Discussion threads 2007-05-18

The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1

It's nearly the middle of 2007 already and I've had occasion to sit down and look at where Web 2.0 and SOA software models have evolved lately. Partly it's because we're now seeing some of the bigger software companies seriously embrace lightweight SOA recently, and it's also because we're...

Tags: Ajax, Architecture of Participation, ATOM, Collective Intelligence, Convergence, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Governance, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, REST, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Right To Remix, RSS, SOA, SOAP, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), WS-*

Blog posts 2007-05-17

Internet gangs hire students for cybercrime

Internet gangs hire students for cybercrimelicensing"Do you want to play nuclear war?" was a film out of Seattle about 10 years ago where a young hacker somehow got into a Department of Defense computer system that controlled the US nuclear silos. I can't cruise by Ketron Island without thinking about...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Social Security, Internet, Bill Gates, computer, Harvard, U.S. Department of Defense

Discussion threads 2006-12-08

Does every organization need a Web 2.0 strategy?

I read with interest this morning Gartner's new 2006 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle which they released earlier today. Of course, I wasn't too terribly surprised to find that Web 2.0 figured prominently at the top of the list. Released yearly, the list identifies and analyzes...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-08-09

Developing strategies for Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

With the all the talk recently about Web 2.0 and the enterprise, particularly around SOA, I find that it's always good to point to specific examples to bring all the pontificating down to earth. Along this line of thought, while I was catching up with the...

Tags: Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-04-30

Ruling clears way for Lindows trial

Ruling clears way for Lindows trialGreat, we can see how MS "mysteriously" got windows trademarkedAfter trying a couple of times and getting denied.. I'd start scanning the headlines for the clerk that handled it to come up missing...Microsoft should have trademarked "evil"Good news indeed!Now Lindows can get back to the...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linspire, Xerox PARC, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-05-24

Web creator snags award

Web creator snags awardAs well he should....The development of http has increased the ease of spreading and receiving infomation to a huge extent.But Al Gore said HE invented the Internet! NT.Poor thingThe original post was clearly not meant to be serious, but I guess it trod some sensitive little political...

Tags: INTERNET, Notebooks, Web, Al Gore, Apple PowerBook

Discussion threads 2004-04-15