Service-orientated architectures represent one of the more significant, not to mention fashionable application architectural paradigms that are gaining...
<<Have you heard of the Smart Enterprise Suite? Now is a good time to get familiar with the concept, as you consider the shape that your organization's...
Of all the major IT vendors Oracle probably makes the most noise about GRID computing except possibly for IBM. Below is the link for a short report on the...
Here is an article by Chuck Kelly which I received by e-mail: ========================================================== Specialty databases - There's always...
The fallacy of business objects By Sean McGrath In the next three paragraphs, you will encounter a strong reality distortion field. Keep your wits about you as...
my thoughts ... Alongwith these architectural changes will be some organizational changes as well. For example, encapsulation of the domain specific IT ...
Thanks for the insight, Sean, Â I actually think that if you stand back and look at each of these positions, I claim that they are really the same thing only...
Interesting point of view (and my first de-lurk, hi!). I think there are some serious downsides with this approach (which I believe is called the Command...
... I don't believe so. The RESTful approach which Sean advocates suggests that "get outstanding invoices" explicitly does *not* need to be understood by both...
 Actually, you simply describe the mechanism by which the two parties can find out what is meant by the request. The spider wouldn't know how to make a...
E-trading in an e-pit By Sean McGrath It is not commonly known that the world of financial trading received a major boost in 1988, when yours truly, failed a...
<<In previous columns, we've looked at the relationship between high- level business transactions and lower-level, IT transactions. We made clear that, to...
Here is an e-mailed article from Peter Coffee on using salesforce.com as a platform. Interesting concept: using an ASP as a development platform and provider...
Rapid application development and the art of throwing things away By Sean McGrath One of the great - but often uncelebrated - capabilities computers give us,...
<<But, we may be selling Linux and our business short if we only push Linux as an edge or low-end infrastructure play according to Forrester Research Inc. In...
<<IBM Software next week is slated to outline plans to shrink and componentize key middleware as a way to bring rich client capabilities to the tiniest...
<<Thunder, a supercomputer recently installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is possibly the second-most powerful computing machine on the planet...
<<Just as the public adoption of telephones required a business not just to have a phone of its own, but to deploy a call center to take full advantage of this...
Evgeny Gesin has asked me to communicate this invitation to you all: "I want to let you know about Javadesk JUG, which has been chosen as one of the Top 25...
my 2 cents ... The largest manufacturer of Nokia is mindful (probably I've discussed this before) about the prospect of government regulation against it ... in...
<<There are three reasons why BPM-1 was not well accepted: It was a solution designed to span the enterprise, yet its architecture failed to recognize the...
Talking of language-specific BPM solutions I have come across some interesting comments on the new PD4J standard on a Java.net weblog: <<With the advent of...
I have written somewhere earlier about how software components are beginning to look like social structures, i.e, software architectures that works best are...
<<Brighton-based Codefarm is using evolutionary computing to swiftly search through thousands of potential solutions to these problems. <To speed up the time...
<<On my home and office networks I have firewalls and on each computer I have virus protection software. To date I have not had any serious problems, but I can...
<<Business changes constantly in small ways and large. It is rare to find an application product that can change once it is implemented. This gap is a reality...
