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Monthly Archives: August 2006
The EU versus Microsoft; openness or interoperability?
The fact that you can read this at all is down to the understanding that standards matter. To you, and I, as users the benefit in being able to use as wide a range of ‘something’, due to standards allowing interoperability seems obvious. It’s a more complicated situation for a vender, and in particular, for a technology vendor. If you spend the R&D dollars to get a product to market first, then its an economic …
Mashup Programmer loves Bastard Pop
My 13-year old son recently told me that he wants to be a computer programmer. A devastating announcement that threw me back into deep, introspective thoughts. You start to imagine all sorts of things. Where did it go wrong? Did he have a nasty accident in kindergarten and the teacher never dared to tell me? Does he eat enough fiber? Shouldn’t I have talked more with him about all the great things you can do …
Hacker’s executables are indexed by Google!
This is was one news story that I had to read twice and even track down as I couldn’t believe it! However it does seem to me true, in the sense that there are multiple versions of the story covered in various places and some include some sensible sounding quotes from various Google spokespeople.
Pandora’s Box Contains Mystery Meat
It’s good to see that the personal music channel Pandora has been chosen in Time’s new list of really, really cool websites. I happen to like the site, although I’m still having some mixed feelings. Surely, Pandora provides some fantastic functionality. Using deep data mining and adaptive filtering – and after asking for just a few favourite songs – it manages to create a personalized radio channel that only plays good music. Well, to my …
May we live in interesting times!
There’s a common meme floating around IT circles about the end of applications in the enterprise. There’s definitely a change in the enterprise software environment that we’re all picking up on; however, I’m not sure that this is the end of applications as much as it represents their maturation as a tool in enterprise software.
Time to lose the filing cabinet
You may have noticed in the Blogs from my colleagues, and me that as we are working through building a new generation of architecturally based ‘SOA’ style solutions we have started to come up with several reoccurring themes. The further we move towards really starting to design and implement new processes to take advantage of some of the core business values in the new technology the more we have started to realise the persistent problem …
E-mail Haunting
For some of us, it is already depressing enough to return from holidays. But things really get worse if you have to spend your first couple of working days in a pool of e-mails. Mind you, I’m not depressed. For now. But nobody would have objected, given the fact that I had to deal with more than 750 serious e-mails (which is of course without the spam). Just a few years ago, I still had …
Processes, rules and things in between
I was commuting the other, catching up on my reading, when I came across the following from David McGoveran: We talk about business processes, business transactions, business events, business activities, business metrics and key performance indicators, and even business services. The language IT uses is now a bit more familiar to business users, and they’re beginning to expect great advances. It’s really too bad they’re going to be disappointed. Unfortunately, though the words may sound …
Is Business Architecture necessary for SOA?
The concept of Business Architecture has come up in two different sessions I have been at in the last two weeks, one in the USA, and one in Europe. Put pretty simply the proposition is that if we are truly building solutions that will scale and will interact with each other as and when needed, internally and externally we need some further thought on how we define and express business process and requirements.
Plurality – Or, so what’s an enterprise anyway?
Talking with a close friend of mine the other day on our usual topic of IT, the universe and everything, he said ‘Did you know, Shell is the world’s largest retailer of Coca-Cola?’ Mentioning this to another friend a couple of days later, he added ‘Did you know, the UK Government’s Department of Work and Pensions is responsible for 14% of the UK economy’s cash flow?’ So, major organisations do lots of different stuff – …
