For some people cloud services are the holy grail and local software an evil thing of the dark ages of IT.  Others, like Richard Stallman (article below) are at the other extreme of the spectrum. Mmmhh, maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle...

Business analysts serve an important role in the organization, helping to marry the needs of the business with the various capabilities and resources available to it. However, now that the enterprise architect (EA) organization is getting its time in...

Investment in .NET is on the up-tick, according to an independent survey conducted by Evans Data Corp. The group found that enterprise .NET investment growth is currently outpacing Java investment growth. The study, which encompassed 350 developers and...

Microsoft and Cray are set to unveil on September 16 the Cray CX1, a compact supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008. The pair is expected to tout the new offering as “the most affordable supercomputer Cray has ever offered,” with pricing starting...

We posted an early draft of our guidelines for the following areas: Architecture and Design Guidelines Presentation Layer Guidelines Business Layer Guidelines Services Layer Guidelines You can browse our set of guidelines from our Guidelines Index page...

BizTalk Server 2009, is on track for availability during the first half of 2009. With over 8,200 customers today, BizTalk Server leads the market as a solution for enterprise connectivity, and remains one of Microsoft’s most consistently-delivered server...

Senior Vice President Bob Muglia shares perspective on future of model-driven development and announces Microsoft’s participation in OMG. Microsoft Corp. today outlined its approach for taking modeling into mainstream industry use and announced its membership...

Not directly linked to architect stuff but amazing thought... Hania Zlotnik, UN Population Division

This globally neutral article in "Application Development Trends", provides some interesting insights about security in software, as reaction on the recent security exploits discovered in Google's Chrome browser. Below two high-lights: Security flaws...

According to a recent survey of top CIOs by Goldman Sachs & Co., cloud computing was the last item on their priority lists. One analyst posited that the reason cloud computing placed so low is because "They [hosted services] require a technical understanding...