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interesting, makes me think I need to look at Google Gears — “The Gears on Rails project by Google Gears enables Ruby on Rails developers to take their applications offline”
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good 3-part series on one company’s shift to being virtual. parts 2 & 3 on policy and management are particulalry interesting, and should be forwarded to those leaders afraid that ‘out of sight is out of control’ (you know who they are)
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Fashionable to say “$4-5 gas is good”, but Maine reality is this: “new quality of dread settled over the place like soot, as people weighed their options. Heat or food? Gas or electricity? Medicine or mortgage payments? What to give up? What to cut back?”
Archives for July 2008
Quick Poll: What does your enterprise architecture group deliver?
This morning, I noticed that the reactions to Jeff Schneider’s EA is a joke post continue to emerge, the latest from Richard Veryard. Richard does a nice job tracking the conversation and then adds some planetary perspective.
In the first of my own two-cent response to Jeff’s, I said, "If you want an actionable enterprise architecture, you must go beyond artifacts". Seeing my words in Richard’s post, combined with a completely unrelated discussion with Hub Vandervoort on standards organizations, reference implementations, and open source communities, got me wondering, what are most enterprise architecture group’s responsible for delivering?
So, if you will, please take a second to answer the following quick poll: What does your enterprise architecture group deliver? Multiple answers are allowed. Feed subscribers, the poll direct link is here. Thanks.
links for 2008-07-09
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new CIO & “chief innovation officer” “former CTO, COO and merger strategy chief Deborah Hopkins…involve tying together “strategy, information technology and research and development to drive cross-business, client-focused innovation across the com
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Google’s answer to XML for internal data exchange “Protocol Buffers allow you to define simple data structures in a special definition language, then compile them to produce classes to represent those structures in the language of your choice.”
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green, but applicable to tech “Call it downscaling, a design approach that focuses on a product’s material and energy use. Downscaling entails small, consistent improvements across one (or more) of three dimensions: size, features, and longevity.”
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“CIOs are being hit from all sides to become environmentally savvy, not just because it sounds good but because it cuts costs, drives profitability and improves competitiveness…Top 10 people who are pressuring CIOs to green up their IT practices.”
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recommended reading (Matt Cutts – www.mattcutts.com) for context on Google’s Protocol Buffers (no, I haven’t read it yet)
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…difficulty engaging business execs in business strategy or business architecture sessions… discussion on downturn scenarios “could awaken business-side representatives to the value of regular contact with architects to discuss plans and alternative
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“analysts do not have the resources..conduct and publish comprehensive research..gather most of their data from client inquiry and vendor briefings..do not conduct product evaluations, lab tests against specifications, or [QOS] investigations.”
Event Processing Blogs
Tucked away in my April 2007 archives is a post of event processing blogs that I periodically update. After updating it this morning, I decided the list deserved a fresh post. Here’s my current list:
Aleri CEP Blog – Scott Groenendal, Jack Rusher, Jeff Wootton and friends
Apama Blog – John Bates, Chris Martins, and
friends from Progress ApamaCEP Technology Blog – Mark Tsimelzon of Coral8
Complex Event Processing – David Luckham, Father of CEP
Marco on
CEP – Marco Seiriö of ruleCoreSOA and EDA – Jack Van Hoof, Enterprise Integration Architect
StreamBlog –
Mark Palmer of StreambaseTibco Complex Event Processing –
Paul Vincent of TibcoComplex Event Processing – Tim Bass of
SilkRoadDatabase Management Services and Text Technologies by Curt Monash
Event Processing Thinking – Opher Etzion, IBM and Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS)
Magmasystems Blog – Marc Alder, CEP Initiative Leader, Wall Street Investment Bank
BAM Blog – Brian Connell and friends from West Global
New Additions – last updated July 10, 2008
Hans Glide’s weblog – Hans Glide
Richard Veryard’s Soapbox – Richard Veryard
Alex – Alexandre Vasseur’s blog
Sudeep Goyal – Sudeep Goyal of EbizonTek
Alexandre Alves’ Middleware Blog – Alexandre Alves’
newyorkscot – Ross Hamilton of Lab49
Please share other blogs that should be listed here.
links for 2008-07-02
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“The conflicting demands of a commander’s need for an independent-minded, mission-oriented soldier and his voracious appetite for information cannot be reconciled by technology. It’s a human issue and a leadership issue.”
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Sandy covers SOA, BPM and User Interaction (Portal, Web 2.0) of Oracle BEA briefing. That leaves event processing (WL Event server w/Oracle EP algorithms), JEE/Java (WebLogic & Jrocket are strategic), Tuxedo (lives on) and stds (SCA, OSGi, BPMN, BPEL)
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Oracle site with information and podcasts on merged oracle & bea product lines — everything from jvm to business intelliegence
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per member and community request, we are extending the deadline on the SOA Consortium & CIO Magazine SOA case study contest until July 31, 2008. this is the first and last extension. winners to be announced at Sept soa-c meeting in (where else?) Orlando
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“..represents the next frontier of powerful differentiation. The qualities that many once thought of as “soft”—trust, integrity, honesty—are now the hard currency of business success and the ultimate drivers of efficiency, productivity, and profitabil
