If Microsoft was a car manufacturer, a few years ago it would have been hit with a whole bunch of complaints about how its vehicles failed to meet safety requirements, particularly with the trend towards off-road driving. It’s not our fault, they said, our cars were never designed to be off-road and besides, have you [...]
Posted by admin on June 28, 2006
WinFS is no more. This comes as no great surprise to me. The effort to provide a common data storage system for the Microsoft environment was a massive undertaking. It has been a long-held vision for such a long time because of the the significant impact it has for any Microsoft product which needs [...]
Posted by admin on June 26, 2006
No sooner had I poseted on EMC than VMware issued an intriguing press release, about its support for software test and integration. Don’t get me wrong I’m all for it, and I’m all for VMware “strengthening its offering” in this area. I can’t help thinking however that they’ve missed out one tiny but essential detail [...]
Posted by admin on June 22, 2006
I discussed the Higgins project a couple of months ago. For those of you interested in turning the concept into reality, can I suggest you hop over to ZDNet and take a look at David Berlind’s excellent set of screen shots from a “demo” Higgins-based solution shown at the Identity Mashup Conference. The use [...]
Posted by admin on June 21, 2006
Well, I have to say I’m surprised!
Our only-slightly-tongue-in-cheek SOA 2.0 petition (stop the madness!) has now attracted over 100 signatures.
I think we’re still a long way from beating back the tide of Oracle’s misplaced SOA 2.0 marketing messages, but I’m dead chuffed we’ve even got this far. When we recorded our recent SOA 2.0 [...]
Posted by admin on June 20, 2006
A long, long time ago, I remember I was in a briefing with EMC. “Storage is a software problem,” I said, to much general agreement and backslapping all around. While EMC was no stranger to acquisition, this was before it had made any of its “strategic” software purchases such as Documentum, Legato and [...]
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The last couple of weeks have seen a lot of activity in identity management land. Last week saw Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference, which is always one of the key events in the identity management calendar. Although I wasn’t able to be there it has been admirably covered by Sun’s Mark Dixon and Digital ID World’s [...]
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In this 24′40″ episode Neil WD embarks on a grumpy monologue about SOA 2.0 – explaining why the term is so counter-productive and why it leads people to a dangerous, myopic perspective of SOA.
Neil M manages to get a word in edgeways, and explains how service-orientation and event-driven processing are actually completely different types [...]
Posted by admin on June 17, 2006
