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"
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)
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?"
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.
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
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."
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."
"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."
...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
"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."
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 Apama
"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."
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)
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
"..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