Author: dan foody

I continue to be surprised by the number of enterprise architects I talk to that think that the way to implement design-time governance is to have a checkpoint, before a service goes into production, to validate the service meets the requirements and rules.

The key problem with this approach...

There's been a lot of talk over the last week around Burton group's report on SOA adoption.  Most recently I read Dave Linthicum's...

Well, my intrepid investigative reporter friend, Jeff Schneider, broke the news.  We've acquired Mindreef.  You can never time these things perfectly, and we didn't want to have news of Mindreef...

A lot of business relationships exist where one side is much more powerful than the other.  Walmart's relationship with their suppliers is a text book example - Walmart is definitely the dominant one: "Here's how you're going to work...

As you've no doubt heard, Progress announced the acquisition of IONA yesterday.

The Actional team has been partnering with IONA since well before this acquisition business...

John Soat wrote a summary of one of the panel discussions at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.  One of the interesting questions raised was whether the CIO should move from being a architect of...

Wow, Ron Schmelzer reacted, how should I put it, somewhat unkindly to my last post.  Yes Ron, I did read the whole article (and Nick Gall's too!)

I guess my point was probably too...

Ron Schmelzer of ZapThink recently wrote an article on WOA (web oriented architecture), saying that we should really think of WOA as a subset of SOA, and that maybe it should be called "Web...

If you were listening to the webinar I gave a few days ago, you probably remember the phone system going haywire with feedback (don't worry, if you listen to the recording we're posting, this will have been edited out).

One of the topics I was talking about right at the time the feedback...