September 2007 - Posts

How long is a piece of string?
21 September 07 08:33 AM | gcerbone | 0 Comments   

A raging email thread on one of our internal aliases led me to an old blog entry about self-locking kangaroos . We have the same kind of thing in architecture. I am often asked "What is the best way to..." or its logical corollary "Take a look at this Read More...

Filed under: Infrastructure Architecture, PBA

Web 2.0 thoughts from the boss
14 September 07 02:13 PM | gcerbone | 0 Comments   

Dan has written a great post on Web 2.0 and why young(er) folks seem to "get" it more easily. I've learned two things: 1) I am old. Thanks, Dan. :) 2) I've often said that technology is much more a reflection of sociology then anything else. That's why Read More...

Filed under: Cool Stuff, Web 2.0

Enterprise Authorization
13 September 07 11:31 AM | gcerbone | 0 Comments   

My colleague Curt Devlin has written a great article on enterprise authorization.  This is a really thorny problem that is going to get worse as enterprises become more and more virtual. Read More...

Filed under: Infrastructure Architecture, Security

Sun to sell Windows
13 September 07 10:39 AM | gcerbone | 1 Comments   

I never thought that I would see the day that Microsoft and Sun would have become so close, but Sun is going to sell servers pre-installed with Windows . It's good to see...I've always thought Sun was a great company. Read More...

Filed under: Windows

Will Microsoft Become Facebook for the Enterprise?
13 September 07 09:40 AM | gcerbone | 0 Comments   

Great article from CIO on some really innovative social networking work that Wachovia is doing. Read More...

Filed under: Financial Services, Cool Stuff

Death of the Datacenter
10 September 07 05:08 PM | gcerbone | 0 Comments   

I've believed for a long time that the "Datacenter" as it exists today is a doomed entity, which needs to become a logical construct rather than a physical construct. Apparently, Forrester agrees . I agree with the first part of the conclusion, that pervasive Read More...

Filed under: Infrastructure Architecture