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I have been having an interesting dialogue with an ex colleague York whose own blog is well worth a read. The particular dialogue has been around what is essentially the changing, and expanded environment in which we are all increasingly working. It’s a World in which Web Services and traditional IT both exist, and therefore we need to start to be careful to discriminate about terms to ensure that we really understand what we mean.
The challenge that this produces is that if both exist in parallel then we need to get a whole load more carefully about terminology. What exactly do you mean by a process as an example? Is this part of an application, an orchestration of ‘services’ or even something achieved through REST? Some 18 months ago I wrote a white paper about using Web 2.0 and SOA in which I attempted to make some clarifications.
A month so back I asked for thoughts on how to define Middleware in the new World and sure enough after some great posts I think we got a really good and recognizable definition. Well I would like to try this again with the following; (I do believe that ‘crowd sourcing’ works, particularly when looking for an ‘open’ definition).
Boundaryless IT Specialist
I am currently in San Francisco. Just around the corner here in California, the Republican candidates for the presidency are debating, trying to establish who is the most conservative while the Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are holding hands to show off their unity.
The Open Group is having its own show-off. The quarterly member meetings and the Architecture Practitioners Conference are better visited than ever, and for the very first time there is also an IT Specialist Conference. The reason: the direct availability of IT Specialist Certification: a unique, open program which assesses senior IT specialists on people skills, technical skills, experience and contextual awareness of adjacent areas such as business, architecture and project management.
Based on the real-life proven, internal certification programs of Capgemini, IBM and EDS, this open program is destined to quickly become a world-wide standard. And we’re only too sure that the world is waiting for this: the key success factor for organisations to collaborate is still the quality of their individual employees. Technology-driven change highly depends on the proper abilities, experience and skills of IT specialists. These need to be real, demonstrated attributes, so we are not talking about isolated book knowledge or having passed some shallow multiple-choice tests.
Is Copy Right necessarily the same thing as Digital Right?
I cannot understand why there should be an apparent gap in the debate between the rising concern over Copy Right on file sharing sites and the work that has been done on Digital Rights over the last few years. To quote from a recent newspaper article; ‘YouTube can identify spam, porn, and hate speech, but not copyrighted material. Come on!’ The point is obvious with two threads to the discussion; the motivation; and the technology; however it does leave some further questions on definitions in a digital society unaddressed. The assumption is that we can use technology to manage the current status of copyright law built around definitions formed with no concept of the digital content that is increasingly at the centre of our society.