Tag: soa

Late last week I had a last minute flight change and switched to JetBlue for my round-trip to Washington D.C.  By last minute, I mean last minute.  Waiting for a flight, on an airline that will remain United nameless, our plane had multiple mechanical failures to fix, including a...

I don't know Tom, though I respect his accomplishments. I suspect he's a pretty smart guy, which would only mean that he'd be smart enough to have nothing to do with SOA,...

...her bastard child.

I was once relaxing with some friends and was asked, "what's the one thing you do better than anyone else?" I thought for a minute, and answered "I'm stupid. Too stupid to give up. Long after normal people give up, I just can't let things...

A few days ago we announced our results for Q4. Our fiscal year ends in November and while it confuses employees who are trying to use up vacation time, it does give us a head start on reviewing the past year and planning for the next.

In short, at the end of our year, everything a business...

My grandfather's curiosity makes him seem younger than his 90 years. After the war, he, an immigrant in NY, became, among other things, a tailor. For the past 10 years or so, each time I've visited, at some point the conversation would turn to my job, and he would pointedly ask, "But, what do...

Posted by Dan Foody

I recently had a discussion with one of the key industry analysts covering the SOA governance space.  He said that the need for UDDI is going away – to be clear, registries and repositories are very important, but the UDDI technical standard is no longer a key...

Last month we introduced our first WSOA interview, SOA: Time to Value of IT. Here is another interview on a more technical topic which explains in detail, but yet understandable terms, how SOA project leads and...

by Dan Foody

Dave Linthicum wrote an interesting blog entry on where the SOA technology vendors are falling down.  It's unfair to stereotype every SOA technology vendor this...

In my last post, I introduced the concept of pre-consumption as a new and unique phase of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - one that only occurs when you have a SOA...