IT Business Edge SOA blogger Lorraine Lawson adds a useful coda to her recent series of SOA growing pains rants with some back-to-basics suggestions for SOA advocates to clarify their message.
No simple answers to complex questions is an age-old adage that well describes software assembly. Iona's Eric Newcomer suggests that assembly-line API and model-driven development approaches continue to fall short.
CNET's Dana Farber reports post-keynote comments by Neil Young, who gave more background on his Archive project that's about to go to Blu-Ray DVD, courtesy of Java technology.
SOA Software, a company that makes secrecy a virtue, has surfaced just long enough to tell us that they?ve finally plugged a gap in their SOA offerings. The privately held firm, which until now has concentrated on run time SOA management and integration, is acquiring LogicLibrary, which has the upstream SOA repository component.
SOA Software has [...]
While our overriding impression was that the Rich Internet Application was the predominant theme of this year?s JavaOne, we did stumble across one potentially interesting server development. Caucho, a 10-year old firm that we?ve never heard of, has recently reached a major milestone in its 3-year effort porting PHP over to Java. That is, it?s [...]
JavaOne provides a good barometer of the current fads hitting IT. Three years ago, Java discovered open source; two years ago, it was Ajax; while last year was a non-event. But this year, the rich client?s back, baby.
In fact, this being our tenth JavaOne (which we covered remotely this year ? too much darn [...]
All too often, when I come across one of Todd Biske?s writings, my conclusion is, ?Why didn?t I ever think of that?? As a former colleague on the weekly BriefingsDirect podcasts, you could always count on Biske to come up with common sense insights that were so basic that they never occurred to you. In [...]
For now Microhoo is history. With Steve Ballmer walking away this weekend from Yahoo?s $37/share demands, inboxes are bound to be overflowing Monday morning with al the postmortems.
We?ll keep ours short and sweet. It?s obvious why Microsoft ditched its otherwise successful M&A model to snag Yahoo: it?s in the unusual position of playing underdog, in [...]
