Thanks to Miha Kralj  for sending this GEM.
Next Generation IT - Computing in the Cloud... Life after Jurassic OO Middleware
http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2008_01/column3.pdf

Uber cross group collaboration. Some questions...

Which cloud to join? DELL, IBM, MSN, Google, Amazon, HP/EDS, how does the enterprise decide on what business services to outsource to the cloud?

The next big thing ... cloud to cloud integration services... How do the Clouds share CRUD?

Also how does a Popfly Application Creation Experience become the norm in the enterprise?
 

Below is the summary.

Cheers,
Hans

It is painfully clear that current middleware cannot provide agility nor provide cost
effective scalable commodity infrastructure. Current IT applications programming
technology is too complex and too inefficient to leverage next generation
infrastructures
On top of this we are facing an acute shortage of skilled application developers.
Hence we need to consider simpler alternative solutions, of which cloud
computing and functional Infrastructure enabled Domain Oriented Programming seem
to be the most promising on the horizon. Simple services enable agility and leverage
scaleable commodity technology. Functional Services enable rapid application
development and enable the service infrastructure to handle concurrency. Domain
Oriented Programming enables domain specific service development on top of which
Business Programming empowers business teams with embedded developers to
deliver applications quickly.

Author Dave Thomas, cofounder/chairman of Bedarra Research Labs
http://www.bedarra.com/