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When SOA Fails, Just SCA
There’s a lot of points that will be made in this blog entry. To keep them straight, I will highlight them right up front: Vendors are getting behind SCA because…
Sun Was Too Arrogant To Survive
Sure, now that the deed is done and the board has approved the acquisition, there’s lots of Monday morning quarterbacks. However, in this case, I’m not one of them. Indeed,…
The Impact of Making Product Choices Using Qualitative vs. Quantitative Analysis
As part of my job, I help customers to select the appropriate software to either fulfill a need or as a component of a larger solution. Fulfilling this role means…
Then What Does Make Someone an Architect?
So, allow me to expand on my prior blog entry — Architecture Frameworks Don’t Make Architects — and answer the question, what does make an architect? To help structure my…
Architecture Frameworks Don’t Make Architects
So, I was about to blog on this topic when up comes a Tweet from Ron Schmelzer (@rschmelzer) over at ZapThink, “Question for the tweeple: do Federal EA Frameworks matter?…
Business’ Abuse of IT People
I just want to give a shout-out to all those IT people working their butts off everyday and taking crap for it. Over the years I've been witness to IT…
The Reason SOA Isn’t Delivering Sustainable Software
Wow, to read the positive reviews of SOA and what it’s doing for the IT industry, one would be likely to believe that there’s serious transformation occurring because of this…
Is Vendor-based SOA Training A Good Idea?
I saw an announcement this morning by WSO2 that they are offering free SOA Training this summer; this triggered my “uh-oh” senses. I'm sure that WSO2 means well, but I've…
SOA is Dead, No Wait, It’s Alive, Wait, No, It’s, It’s…Perhaps It’s Who’s Adopted SOA, Not What Has Been Adopted
I’m currently reading “ Influencers”, in which the authors make a great point that with innovation, the messenger is as important as the message. There’s a story of a researcher…