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Nick Malik poses an interesting question here – are we making things difficult for ourselves by calling Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Architecture? His point is (if I’ve got it right) that architecture work is kind of crunchy, focusing on very well-bounded and defined outputs – whereas EA work is delivered within a different context. Enterprises morph [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 by adminUncategorized
It’s perhaps unsurprising, given all the brouhaha surrounding Microsoft’s claims that open source software infringes on 235 of its patents (which incidentally I take to be largely ‘sabre rattling’ from Redmond in the face of the implications of the GPLv3 for its deal with Novell, as discussed in the Risk Factors of the latter’s recent [...]
Posted on Monday, May 28, 2007 by adminThe ever-vigilant Redmond watcher Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet reports that Microsoft’s Server and Tools unit (but not the P&L – Microsoft will still report server and tools financials), which is responsible for Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center management products and Forefront security products, is now part of the Business [...]
Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 by adminIn my previous post I explained how in order to get real value out of Enterprise Architecture (EA) work, it’s critical to focus not only on the outputs of EA work, but also on the process/practice of EA – and moreover that the process/practice has to focus on *conversations*. What does this mean for tools, [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 by adminI was talking to Donna Burbank, Director of Enterprise Modelling and Architecture Solutions at Embarcadero a few days ago – she was briefing me about the company’s new EA/Studio product. We digressed a fair bit along the way, particularly sharing notes regarding our experiences of how Enterprise Architecture (EA) *actually* works in the real world. [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 by adminUncategorized
Well, better late than never. SAP today announced the acquisition of privately-held MaXware, a supplier of identity management infrastructure. Back in June 2005, I discussed SAP Venture’s (its VC arm) investment in another identity management specialist: Ping Identity and at the beginning of 2006 predicted that SAP would enter the identity management acquisition fray. My [...]
Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 by adminUncategorized
Yesterday, the General Manager of Microsoft’s virtualization strategy Mike Neil used his blog to announce that a number of features would be missing from the initial release of Windows Server Virtualization (aka Viridian): Live migration of virtual machines between physical servers Online addition of storage, network, memory and processor resources Support for more than 16 [...]
Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 by adminUncategorized
Sun yesterday announced: a new initiative around support for OpenID, a decentralized, web-friendly single sign-on mechanism that allows consumers to reuse a single login across different websites, tackling the “login explosion” problem. OpenID is currently limited to facilitating low-risk transactions such as blog comments. Through its new initiative, Sun is exploring what changes and practices [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 by adminOver the past six months we’ve been busy working behind the scenes with a partner, JEMM Research, on a pretty nifty online SOA strategy planning tool. We’re getting near to the point of launch, and we’d really like to find some people out there who would be interested in participating in a two-week beta test [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2007 by adminUncategorized
At the end of last week a webMethods’ press release popped into my inbox highlighting a recent demonstration of interoperability between the company’s UDDI-based registry (acquired with Infravio), HP’s Systinet registry and one of Layer 7 Technologies’ SecureSpan XML appliances. In a nutshell, the three companies showed how policies attached to services in a UDDI [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2007 by admin
