February, 2006

Tim Bray re-phrased the now-classic Metcalfe's Law into something that XML spec writers can appreciate: "The value of a markup language is proportional approximately to the square of the number of different software implementations that can process...

Today Microsoft launched the beta version of Microsoft Office Live .      The initial set of services from Office Live is aimed at businesses with 10 employees and under, and includes free (ad-funded) services to help small businesses to establish...

Anyone out there familiar with or living in Stuttgart?  The next WS-BPEL F2F is slated to be held in Stuttgart - a place I've never been.  Ping me if you are in Stuttgart - maybe we can meet up over some "real" beer and talk about workflow and interoperable...

I saw this in CBDI this morning.  Apparently IBM wants to develop a standard for a SOA maturity model.   It seems to me that we need agreement on the scope of SOA before we can ever hope to measure its maturity (or lack thereof).     I don't initially...

Updated to remove the incorrect assertion about WfMC now being a part of the OMG. This was totally in error - I meant to say BPMI was now part of OMG. Thanks to Keith for catching this and pointing it out to me! ------ Feedback appreciated...

Windows Workflow Foundation should only be abbreviated WF, not WWF. Now you know why.

WF, SharePoint and transactional integrity...

Microsoft is cool again - check out our efforts around Web 2.0!...