You know the problem, keep active on your email account, or die. Well maybe not physically, but it feels like death when you grimly contemplate several hundred emails. I have to travel a great deal and these days the expectation is that I will always...
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Mummified architects
Yes, we’ve heard it all before. A good IT or Enterprise Architect is supposed to be able to bridge the gap between business objectives and technology solutions. In order to do that, architects still need thorough analytical skills: even with (some...
Read moreWhy couldn’t I get the airline upgrade? — turned out to be an Architectural question!
I was facing an eleven hour flight back from India after an IT Industry event, had checked in and was sitting in the lounge contemplating an uncomfortable sleepless night with others I had become friendly with over the last few days. In breezed...
Read moreFree Service-orientation
As a true Dutchman, I'm ready to be happy with anything I get for free. But it gets a lot better when it is for free but also excellent. And that's certainly the case with Dan Wood's new book on Enterprise SOA. 'Enterprise SOA, Designing IT for...
Read moreSAP comes from Venus
I am ready to leave for Paris, where I will be participating in the Enterprise Architects Council meeting, one of the many, many sessions at Sapphire 2006. Must be a new audience to SAP, these enterprise architects. Ever since NetWeaver and...
Read moreThe Augmented Running Experience
Innovation Happens Elsewhere. Now that companies are searching for the way back to innovative value, it’s worthwhile chewing a few introspective minutes on this tiny, little message. Yes, companies can spend their entire IT budget on consolidating...
Read moreGood Guys and Bad Guys
I guess I'm sort of late in discovering certain things. For example, it's only been months since I found out about 24, the television series that won every imaginable award and is now finishing its 5th highly successful season. In 24, special agent...
Read moreSearching, Browsing, Indexing, Tagging, or looking for the answer?
It’s getting really confusing out there with all the claims from all the different technology vendors that only they know how to tell me exactly what I need in order to find the right information at the right time. Funny thing is we can all...
Read moreIt’s SOA, but not as we know it!
Apologies for abusing a well know line from ‘Star Trek’ by which Dr ‘Bones’ regularly classified all life forms that didn’t quite fit the standard definition of life written round the human form. This on its own will provoke abuse from...
Read moreASPs - an old idea warmed up?
According to industry analysts IDC Application Service Providers, or ASPs, are very hot growing at 21% compound annual growth over the next few years. The last time I heard this was back in 2000 when the phrase ‘the internet changes everything’...
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