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Say it Ain’t Soa

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

So Burton and Gartner have declaierd SOA dead.  Here is mi latest twit thread on this topic…

If It’s Wednesday It Must Be Vegas – Another SOA Story

Friday, April 11th, 2008

While cleaning up my Google alerts I noticed some poor soul trying to make sense of IBM’s SOA management stack at Impact in Vegas this week. On Twitter yesterday our good friend and top-notch analysts Coté was asking similar questions. Here is a mashup of some of my comments out in the blogoshpere on [...]

My Kids Still Don’t Care About SOA

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

But it looks like these guys do:
Comparing Oracle, IBM, BEA, and TIBCO for SOA
The SOA Knowledge and Performance Kit is a free open-source resource to show you what it really takes to build services using today’s leading SOA development platforms.
Another silly unrelated post by me: My kids don’t care about SOA.

IBM Web 2.0 – Part 1

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

IBM Developerworks has put together a nice first part of a four-part tutorial on Web 2.0. Though a little IBM-centric, it is a good primer for all these new buzwords floating around. I look forward to the next three parts. Here is the link:
Enterprise Web 2.0, Part 1: Web 2.0 — Catching a wave [...]

Greg the Architect – Off the Grid

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

In this episode, Greg gets bent out of shape because he relied on “The Analyst Mystic Grid” to recommend a service monitoring and management software that wasn’t ready for the grown-up table. In the end, the analyst’s magic eight ball prevails. Can you say “Gartner”?

Gartner Day 1: Sandy Carter, IBM

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Gartner Day 1: Sandy Carter, IBM
McDonald’s is handling its drive-through orders by routing them to operators in the Philippines who take a customer’s order and then key the order into a system that results in a burger popping out of the window when the customer drives up, a perfect example of outsourcing a specific task [...]

Why, Because Sandy says SOA

Monday, September 10th, 2007

“SOA Enables Business Flexibility” IBM SOA Boss Sandy Carter

Are interoperability and competition mutually exclusive?

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Don’t answer yet…  Here are some links to ponder over.
Red Hat, Dell unveil JBoss OEM deal, IBM enlists Novell’s help
One year after Red Hat acquired JBoss, the battle is finally beginning to heat up in the open source middleware space.
  

IBM chides Microsoft over SOA
Microsoft wants OOXML to be accepted as an ISO [...]

My kids don”t care about SOA

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

They really aren’t up on the latest industry trends “AJAX, OSS, Web 2.0.” They always appreciated the chotchkees I usually bring home from conferences but they never have been excited enough to ask where they came from. However, this time my new friends over at the OpSource booth at OSCON have started a trend [...]

Microsoft and SOA

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

SOA in the Real World
SOA is an architectural approach to creating systems built from autonomous services. This book introduces a set of SOA capabilities and explores them.

SaaS,SOA,OSS, and Green Score High on Top 10

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Top 10 trends in enterprise IT – Business – News – ZDNet Asia
Saas, SOA, Green, and OSS holding in there!

Move Over Dilbert – Meet Greg the Architect

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Greg the Architect : Episodes
I plucked this gem from Doug McClure’s Blog site.  Holy cow, this is very funny stuff.