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By way of Don Box, I just came across this story-ette. evilapi.com – what a great domain! For those who haven’t been following the story of Google’s removal of its SOAP API to its search engine, you can catch up on the news so far at Slashdot. As Don says, don’t you just love the [...]
Posted on Friday, December 22, 2006 by adminThe Liberty Alliance, which does great work in the world of federated identity technology standards, policies, guidelines etc, has succumbed to the 2.0 bug. On the 22nd January it will be holding the “Liberty 2.0″ workshop but don’t let that put you off. The excellent line-up of speakers (and I am talking from experience) will [...]
Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2006 by adminJon is pretty busy at the moment finishing off the book (and I have a couple of minutes before some more editing) so I thought I would highlight his latest podcast over at BriefingsDirect where, together with a number of other independent analysts, they reviewed SOA in 2006 and made some predictions for 2007. You [...]
Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2006 by adminUncategorized
I just came across this whitepaper from webMethods (who is not a client) SOA Governance: Enabling Sustainable Success with SOA. Putting to one side the fact that this is from a vendor and the checklist in the Appendix is clearly oriented towards webMethods offerings – based on the acquisition of Infravio earlier in the year [...]
Posted on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 by adminAccording to this story at News.com BEA will be announcing plans to release WebLogic Server Virtual Edition in the first quarter of 2007. According to the story, this is a version of the company’s WebLogic Java application server which does not need an operating system. Instead, it runs on a version of BEA’s JRockit Java [...]
Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 by adminI’m getting just a little bit bored of a certain slide that seems to appear in every single IT vendor’s enterprise pitch at the moment. It’s the one with the pie chart – where about 70% of the pie is allocated to “Maintenance” and about 30% relates to “Innovation”. The theory is that CIO’s are [...]
Posted on Friday, December 8, 2006 by adminOne of the principles we are advocating in our book is the need to create a common language between business and IT to ensure that there is a common understanding of what the business is trying to achieve, relative priorities, the role of IT, measurement of the business value of IT and so forth. A [...]
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