Software architectures are going through one of their periods of evolutionary upheaval. Back in the late 90s enterprise-wide monolithic apps sold well –...
The next generation, actually the final frontier of software architectures, will be a panopoly of autonomous agents. Autonomous agents will operate in a social...
OK, I'll bite -- "agents" is a reasonable metaphor, but I'm sure there are others, perhaps even better ones to describe future software. I don't consider...
Ernie, What you write reminds me of some of Gerlenter's ideas (also the first reaction of Juggy). I guess these agents already exist in the form of spiders...
I have just uploaded some whitepapers to the Files section. One on building adaptive distributed systems with JavaSpaces (which you can alos find in the J/JS...
In order to procrastinate on the things I should be doing, I just read the whitepaper and word document related to databases -- very interesting. My two areas...
Dawn, ... read ... Multivalued ... era ... it ;-) ... particular, ... database. Pick was very popular in South Africa in the 80s and 90s for some reason, but...
<<The history of computing is the history of finding ways to link data to programs, and the Semantic Web is the next step in that evolution, Tim Berners-Lee...
Here is one possible outcome for our future: http://www.astrologyzone.com/forecasts/millennium.html My thoughts on the same topic go as follows ... I believe...
The MultiValue, aka Pick, databases are quite successful stealth technology -- I have been told that the sales of all MultiValue databases plus applications...
Renowned computer scientist David Gelernter, a pioneer in distributed and parallel programming and the inventor of the Linda programming language (the...
Kaleem, No one could accuse you of myopia when it comes to looking ahead - perhaps more Next-Cyberspecies than Next-Generation. Thank you! This is great...
I wholeheartedly agree that we need to think in terms of persistence of information related to individual people and organizations. While he talks about...
Very good article, Ernie. Most importantly: "Our information systems reflect our machines instead of our lives." After the downtime, I've increasingly...
Those of you familiar with Linda and Gelernter's development of the tuple space concept will be aware of IBM's TSpaces and Sun's JavaSpaces as implementations...
BAM is up there with BPM as one of those usually-Gartner-invented TLAs we should be taking a look at. <<Since Gartner coined the term "Business Activity...
You have doubtless all heard of SOA (some of you belong to our SOA Group after all). Have you heard of POA (process-orientated architecture)? Well, I hadn't...
Businesses already have had Dashboards of sorts for several activity monitoring. However, reliance purely on software with lesser human intervention seems to...
<<Just as many IT shops are starting to get their arms around the service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach now that Web services standards are emerging,...
<<IBM WebSphere for Grid Computing The new IBM line of WebSphere products will support grid computing, pioneered in scientific computing. <<WebSphere 5.0.2...
IBM like to use Websphere for everything today. I have been reading literature by Sr. Gelernter. I like his solution for using unused computers on a network....
Looks as if Novell is going down the open source road now. I think we will see more major software houses do this in a selective way. What do you think, guys?...
On this same web site I have found a very interesting article about a Yankee report on integration. Instead of going for traditional EAI (very very expensive...
This is an interesting concept, this POA. I do not understand why Gartner do not talk more about this. I will have to tell them! Also I have discovered a...
Hi pretty sure this is one of the topics for this list. The last I looked, Jini and Javaspaces were proprietary technologies from Sun. I thought that's why...
The whole question of recovery-orientated computing was brought up in the J/JS Group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jini_javaspaces/message/304). I certainly...
Jini and JavaSpaces are as proprietary as Java. Sun produced the specification for these technologies. They also produced reference implementations....
I totally agree with the logic of the below (who wouldn't!), but have two questions: 1. Harvesting corn is little more mature than technology, i.e., we don't...
Those of you who are involved in the Application Integration space (and who isn't who works with enterprise apps) will be well aware that the acronym EAI is...
