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Businesses aren't machines, and enterprise architecture can't make them so

Via Service Oriented Enterprise, I recently picked up an Infoworld blog post by SOA journeyman David Linthicum, where he makes a couple of very strange points about SOA and ESBs. It may be, of course, that the post is pure link bait: certainly, David appears to have said some relatively sane things in the past, [...]

Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 by

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Pure-play partnerships: helping light the way to BPM + SOA?

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) players often talk about their ability to support BPEL, and this is often mistaken for BPM support. But BPEL is a misleading beast (as I’ve blogged about previously). It’s not a bad technology for helping IT folks with declarative specification of service-to-service integration processing, but it’s not the same as BPM. [...]

Posted on Friday, December 7, 2007 by