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Nilesh starts blogging, and his first post is of such high quality that I have to rave about it here. Nilesh Bhide, a trusted colleague of mine and a terrific architect, brings forth a tidbit of information too often overlooked: we can learn a great deal
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I've been on a roll lately, calling for the creating of a standardized approach to the partitioning of Line-of-Business apps . One reader commented that we are a long way from "plug and play" integration. The real answer is more subtle than that. Not
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Sometimes, in a long struggle, a goal that was strategic one day, becomes unimportant later. This happens when some underlying assumption is challenged, when some previously secure resource becomes unavailable, or when the behavior of large groups of
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There's been talk, for years now, about concepts like Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0. We are all so enamored with technology, we sometimes forget that it is about the customer. There is a Customer 2.0 in here, and I'd like to speak to her. Have you met Kai?
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No organization is perfect. We each can look around and say "stuff is broken here." So, how to fix things? First off, why fix things? After all, if I am a lowly programmer, it is not up to me to fix things, right? After all, they pay executives, don't
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Have you ever woke up in the morning with an idea in your head that you simply have to write down? I just did. Here's the idea: Everyone talks about how important the catalog (or repository) is to Service Oriented Architecture. It isn't. The reason everyone
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Harry Pierson asks a great question in his post on REST ( A REST Question ). I'll summarize his excellent post this way: what makes something RESTful? Is it the protocol or is it the constraints in the architectural style? My take. Rest is succeeding
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Michael Platt posted a set of observations recently that offered up some troubling conclusions. In his post , which you should read, he noted that most of the folks interested in creating Web 2.0 sites were not talking to their IT departments to make
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There is some discussion these days about "middle out" architecture. The key idea in "middle out" is that it is neither top down nor bottom up. So what does that mean? Top down architecture means to take the entire enterprise and create a model with large,
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As I mentioned in a prior blog entry , the lack of a single consensus mechanism for different Software-as-a-Service apps to integrate with each other and with enterprise-oriented software applications (like SAP, Dynamics, Baan, Siebel, Oracle, Clarify
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Prediction for 2007: The market for Software as a Service is going to peak soon, and then fall off. In a year, existing players will stabilize and consolodate and one or two players will be profitable, while the rest fall away. The promise of Software
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