Thursday - May 1, 2008
It's a phrase that we hear all too frequently: "We're moving off our mainframe." Yet virtually anyone who has ever had a mainframe continues to utilize it in some fashion. These robust and highly functional legacy systems contain years and years of data, and when you're talking about abandoning them altogether, you're also talking about a huge chunk of change. The truth is the mainframe is not disappearing. Whether you're in the financial services, insurance or airline industry -- or, well, any industry for that matter -- mainframe applications and data help drive the way the world does business.
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Thursday - April 24, 2008
Mike Meehan at SearchSOA.com has done some homework on the use of Web Oriented Architecture, and the IT folks in the field are fed up. Enough with the labels, they seem to be saying. And they raise excellent points. I for one am by no means wed to the "WOA" nomenclature.
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Thursday - April 10, 2008
IBM has introduced a mashup portfolio designed to help line of business users create applications for specific situations. The driver behind development of the portfolio is the recognition that there is a huge amount of value in unstructured data and content that doesn't always fall neatly under the IT enterprise umbrella.
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Thursday - April 10, 2008
Services Oriented Architecture should dramatically improve the relationship between people, processes, and IT. Yet the potential for SOA remains clouded due to a gulf between worker knowledge and the new services automation benefits, which remain focused on structured data and existing applications.
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Monday - April 7, 2008
IBM is unveiling upgrades to its WebSphere Premises Server at Impact, its SOA event taking place in Las Vegas this week. The buffed-up SOA software -- Version 6.1 -- and IBM's RFID Information Center will be the two main product spotlights at the event. The cumulative effect of the improvements is that users will find it far easier to gather, analyze and act upon data.
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Saturday - April 5, 2008
The enterprise Web 2.0 market will continue to gain importance in 2008 as an increasing number of firms look to Web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis and social networking to solve long-standing information worker problems, according to a recent report from Forrester Research.
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Thursday - April 3, 2008
If you consider the traditional quality assurance process -- in which QA is a set of tasks that occur in a serial fashion after development -- it becomes clear that many of the desired service-oriented architecture benefits such as agility, cost efficiency and higher quality are placed at risk.
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Monday - March 31, 2008
SynerG, formed in 2005 to develop interactive business mashups, has released its first product -- a contact center application -- from beta. SynerG Contact Center targets a familiar pain point -- one that all agent desktop apps have tried in various ways to address: the difficulty of accessing and integrating data from a company's back end.
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Wednesday - March 19, 2008
Tony Baer has a great rundown of Monday's EclipseCon OSGi-based runtime Equinox news. Extending the Eclipse community's unity to runtimes makes a ton of sense, given that developers can focus on the applications and business logic and become far less concerned with complex deployment issues.
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Thursday - March 13, 2008
What a nut I was. Back when Sun Microsystems and Microsoft announced they would be joining forces on interoperability between Sun, nee Java, and .NET -- remember Steve Ballmer of "Ballmer and Butthead" fam] and Scott McNealy sitting side by side -- I thought they meant it. I pushed the envelope, just for giggles, calling for binary compatibility between Java and .NET/DCOM/COM.
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Monday - March 10, 2008
Rapid and cheaper deployment and the enhanced information sharing and communications collaborative applications afford organizations are helping the technology catch on in government agencies just as in the private sector. Today's government agencies face growing pressure to improve efficiency, increase transparency and enhance constituent services," noted Oracle vice president Wayne Bobby.
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