For years those of us with a technical mind have found great technologies and looked to solve issues (normally technical with them).  But the merging of the Business and Technical mind are coming together more and more.  We see this especially with the use of SOA infrastructure where...

When you look at what you need to be successful in SOA infrastructure, data is really fundamental. While it's important, of course, to have governance and visibility into all the systems that you build in a distributed SOA world, it's also important to have SOA...

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...

The other day someone mentioned that people are afraid of SOA… well, BOO! I think that's just plain crazy. People should not be afraid of SOA. On the other hand, I can certainly understand why they might be. SOA can result in distributed architectures, which can, in turn, result in implementation...

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,...

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...