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links for 2008-07-18

• Google Gears Takes Ruby on Rails Offline
  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"
  (tags: ruby ror google_gears)
• Everyone Works at Home at Chorus, Part One - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
  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)
  (tags: cio telecommuting virtual)
• Welcome to the Frozen Economy
  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?"
  (tags: economy oil maine)

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

• Citigroup Names New CIO - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
  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
  (tags: IT leadership CITI)
• Google Open Source Blog: Protocol Buffers: Google's Data Interchange Format
  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."
  (tags: data google xml opensource)
• The Benefits of Downscaling
  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."
  (tags: sustainability design)
• Under pressure: 10 sources pushing CIOs to go green | InfoWorld | News | 2008-07-07 | By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World
  "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."
  (tags: green_IT sustainability savings)
• Google Research Publication: Web Search for a Planet - Google Cluster Architecture
  recommended reading (Matt Cutts - www.mattcutts.com) for context on Google's Protocol Buffers (no, I haven't read it yet)
  (tags: architecture google)
• Enterprise Architects are Vital in Tough Times—Forrester - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
  ...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
  (tags: enterprisearchitecture economy)
• Why analyst relations matter - Analysts do not have time to do comprehensive research « SageCircle Blog
  "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."
  (tags: industry_analysts)

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 Apama

CEP Technology Blog  - Mark Tsimelzon of Coral8

Complex Event Processing - David Luckham, Father of CEP

Marco on  CEP - Marco Seiriö of ruleCore

SOA and EDA - Jack Van Hoof, Enterprise Integration Architect

StreamBlog -  Mark Palmer of Streambase

Tibco Complex Event Processing -  Paul Vincent of Tibco

Complex Event Processing - Tim Bass of  SilkRoad

Database 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

• IT vs. initiative: The Internet age comes to the battlefield | The Industry Standard
  "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."
  (tags: leadership information_flow battle)
• Column 2 by Sandy Kemsley : Oracle BEA Strategy Briefing
  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)
  (tags: oracle bea soa bpm event_processing j2ee)
• Oracle Fusion Middleware -- Merged Oracle & BEA product lines
  Oracle site with information and podcasts on merged oracle & bea product lines -- everything from jvm to business intelliegence
  (tags: oracle bea)
• SOA Consortium Insights: SOA Case Study Contest deadline extended until July 31, 2008
  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
  (tags: soa soa-consortium casestudy)
• Why 'How' Matters More Than Ever - Human conduct—how we do what we do...
  "..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
  (tags: reputation_economy transparency trust hyper_connected)