How does one get locked in due to AON? Message processing is a commodity and is rapidly being standardized. AON is accelerating its migration to infrastructure...
... The use of 3rd party solutions to solve problems that you have in yet another vendors product is a great big red flag in my book. Why pay to solve the...
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This is an article I have just received by e-mail: Gervas =================================================================== Grid cloud of confusion lifting ...
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... Indeed, soon there will be a lot of talk about the grid. With WSRF there is a lot of hope for convergence between Grid- and Web-Services. ... A lot of...
Stella in this case does not refer to that Belgian beer which when brewed (not so competently) in England is known in the licensed trade here as "wife-beater";...
<<Software developers used to be famous for their readiness to launch into language wars: protracted, passionate or even vicious debates on the power and...
<<How do you pick out the terrorist in the crowd? That's the problem, underlined by the London explosions, that Pixlogic is trying to solve. The Los Altos,...
<<Mark Faulkner of Creative Business Machines explains: "Many people theorise about the skills for taking and maximising business meetings, but in reality...
<<Microsoft recently held a conference in which it asked a board of students (from several countries, including the U.C., India, China, and Russia) about the...
<<It's worth re-reading this article from late May in light of the Salesforce.com meltdown at customer Cisco. The question is now whether the hosted model is...
<<When Microsoft jumps into a new technology, when Web browsers start adding it as a feature of their software, when the U.S. Supreme Court case confers it...
<<Two years ago, software engineer Shaun Walker got an e-mail from a Microsoft product manager, suggesting ways to keep Walker's development project from...
<<To understand how AON may affect the future of Web services, you first need a basic understanding of what it is. AON will embed what Cisco terms "intelligent...
<<A similar dynamic of "underlay innovation" versus "overlay innovation" can be seen all over the history of what we know today as the Sentient Web. Of...
I would like to introduce a new framework to this group, "Strandz". Its catchphrase is "least code", achieved by the use of a complex design-time model. ...
<<According to IBM, the z9 more than doubles the capacity of its predecessor (the z990) in these areas: The z9 can process one billion transactions per day...
... Putting all the eggs in one basket is an interest strategy for IT system design. It has been shown... The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing - Peter...
Gregg, ... per ... (versus ... system design. It has been shown... ... application, makes the following eight assumptions. All prove ... learning experiences....
Here is an extract from another article on this wondrous machine: <<A new version of IBM's so-called virtualization engine, for example, will make it easier to...
... Yes, I concur. But I also believe, as I stated, that these concepts apply to any interconnect. I worked on the development of the 5ESS switch software...
The Ninth Jini Community Meeting is being held in Chicago, October 19-20, and a Call for Papers has been announced. Proposed presentations are due September...
Some years ago IBM bought Stratus, one of the two principal vendors at the time of non-stop systems (the other being Tandem which is buried discreetly in the...
<<Students from the Information Technology University in Copenhagen is [sic] trying to help by releasing what they are calling the world's first open source...
Raises all sort of ideas around the 'build versus buy' concept. I can spend weeks brewing my own or pop down to my local and purchase a pint on demand.... ...
... I'm not disputing the value of ultra reliable CPUs/systems. I am stating that more than one, redundant system, may be necessary :-) Gregg Wonderly...
I don't think anyone would disagree with your recipe for further shrinking the asymptotic gap, Gregg; as I suggested in so many words, why not use Jini as a...
<<Sun Microsystems president and COO Jonathan Schwartz on Thursday cited the company's plans to eventually offer all of its software for free as a way to build...