Author: dan foody

Have you ever noticed that weather reports used to say things like "20% chance of rain", but now almost all just say "chance of rain" or even "rain likely"?  (Where I am, today its "snow likely.") It can't be that weather forecasting has gotten less...

Jon Williams, blogging over at InfoWorld in his New York CTO blog, posted an entry on worthless process.  In it he talked about, for every process/project you need to think "will this make...

Looks like my previous posting on this topic was pretty timely.  Joe McKendrick (over at ZDNet) just today talked about SOA governance stifling agility.

In Joe's article, he asked the question of whether or not...

It's pretty well accepted that business agility is the holy grail of SOA. And most people agree that strong (SOA) governance is a key requirement for an effective SOA infrastructure. So, why am I here telling you that governance is a barrier to business agility?

Historically, strong...

SOA, by its very nature, results in many more moving parts in any IT system.  As a result, many organizations obsess over ensuring that SOA infrastructure doesn't impact their business' availability - and rightly so.

So, it's interesting to look at Apple's website (the...

I was flying from Montreal to Boston yesterday and we had a flight delay.  Not that unusual, but I did what I always do when that happens - I went to the FAA's website to see what was happening.

I was expecting to see the FAA say it was a weather or volume problem.  But, what I saw...

As I was reading Dave Linthicum's flip-flopping denial, I kept asking myself how someone could both "resist the temptation to redirect resources toward tactical business...

There's been a lot of discussion recently on how the upcoming recession will impact SOA. My rule of thumb is that in good times businesses care about agility while in bad times they care about efficiency.  So, if you...

A lot has been said about this acquisition over the last few months, though I don't know why anyone doubted Oracle would acquire BEA. What Larry wants, Larry gets.

But, now that it's official,...