Lately I just keep falling over this word. (See here, here, and here, and here). Perhaps I’m having a bad day, but this is really starting to get on my nerves. Applistructure? Applistructure? Customer: I’d like some applistructure, please!Vendor: Certainly, sir. How much would you like? My 2p: forget applistructure. In fact, forget applications too. [...]
Posted on Friday, October 28, 2005 by adminThe Loosely Coupled blog authored by Phil Wainewright published an entry on Identity as a service yesterday. What Phil says here makes a lot of sense: One of the things that’s becoming evident as organizations deploy service-oriented architectures is that identity management (access control, user authorizations) has to be implemented as a service. Anything else [...]
Posted on Friday, October 28, 2005 by adminWhen BEA announced its planned acquisition of Plumtree, I commented that the company’s justification omitted what I felt was an important factor underlying its $200 million investment: “John Kunze, the CEO of Plumtree, discussed composite applications as part of his contribution to the announcement. Whilst this did not figure as prominently in terms of the [...]
Posted on Friday, October 21, 2005 by adminHow does a service consumer become aware of new services? Standards inititiatives, most notably UDDI, work on a polling model, where the consumer searches the registry for services of interest. The parallels here with browsing are obvious – in the early days of the web I would have to periodically visit a site to see [...]
Posted on Friday, October 7, 2005 by adminBack in February, News.com reported how Scott McNealy suggested in a presentation to financial analysts that Sun might offer its customers its own database in direct competition to the likes of Oracle, IBM and Microsoft. At the time, he would say no more than “watch this space”. In an interview with Sun president Jonathan Schwartz [...]
Posted on Friday, October 7, 2005 by adminOK, so it’s not as exciting as many of us might have thought…but it might become more interesting…maybe. In a nutshell: – Sun is altering its Java client download/update process to act as a carrier for the Google toolbar (users will have to explicitly choose to opt out of having the Google toolbar installed along [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2005 by adminI know it’s a bit “previous” to try and analyse something that hasn’t even happened yet, but I thought it might be fun to slap some thoughts down about this, so that I can come back (after 10.30am PST, when Sun and Google are to discuss a collaboration effort of some kind) and see if [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2005 by admin
