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Links for 2008-02-27 [del.icio.us]

Top 100 analyst blogs « Technobabble 2.0 MWD at #24! Well well well. Thanks Jonny! If we start posting a bit more, maybe we can push our ranking a bit higher… EDS’ Next Big Thing Blog: Read and Respond to What the EDS Fellows Say About Technology : OASIS BPEL4People: Beating a Dead Horse Via [...]

Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 by

Google launches Google Sites

Google is once again treading on Microsoft toes with the launch of its newest product, Google Sites. The new offering allows users to create and manage their own websites, and is based on the wiki technology the company acquired from JotSpot in October 2006. Google Sites is clearly targeted at the market currently dominated by [...]

Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2008 by

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The lore of averages

I was chatting to a friend who’s a top-notch Java developer over the weekend: we were shooting the breeze about Groovy, Rails, Spring, Hibernate and various other Things That Get People Excited (let’s call them TTGPEs), and discussing how far they were likely to penetrate into your average IT shop. “Why do so many people [...]

Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 by

Links for 2008-02-13 [del.icio.us]

Enterprise Architecture in ANZ: 5 things SOA vendors are missing, and 5 things customers need As an analyst it’s easy to take senior vendor management views as gospel, but the truth is that in large vendors clever HQ ideas don’t always translate into good relationships in the field

Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 by

Links for 2008-02-08 [del.icio.us]

English language succumbs to Symbiotic Ephemeralization | The Register I’ve often thought that much Enterprise Architecture discussion tended to disappear up its own a*se, but this is something else

Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 by

Links for 2008-02-06 [del.icio.us]

Middleware field consolidates in services direction as Workday acquires Cape Clear | Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.comSaaS provider buys ESB vendor – now that *is* interesting. The two were already partnering but I didn’t see this coming. Will they go after the long tail of integration? Inside Architecture : Standardization works with a limited, and [...]

Posted on Thursday, February 7, 2008 by

Links for 2008-02-01 [del.icio.us]

opensocial.Person.Field (v0.7) – OpenSocial – Google Code Via en.terpri.se – this spec scares me. A "Person" API object with 40-odd "standard" fields, including info about habits, likes, dislikes, enthnicity, age, political views, phone numbers. Does this look like a marketing database to you?

Posted on Saturday, February 2, 2008 by