Service-Oriented Architecture

You may not really care where your friends are, but you may care where that unknown end-user of your system is.

Make it slightly easier for business users to get quality data, and save billions in productivity, says a new study out of Sybase, University of Texas and Indian School of Business.

New reports of IT staff shortages, data insecurity suggest an environment ripe for SOA.

More companies are looking to tap into servers and storage as part of their clouds.

So you finally got promoted to the top job. Geek & Poke’s Oliver Widder provides some guidance on getting through the first day:

Cloud shifts the focus to infrastructure integration — ’something with which IT is not so well versed.’

Outsourcing engagements will increasingly consist of acquiring smaller chunks of services, versus multi-million-dollar handovers of IT operations.

Tim O’Reilly: ‘It’s the back end that matters.’

Quotes of the Week:
“Oracle is damned if they do and damned if they don’t, so it figured it might as well do and try to get paid.  There’s just tons and tons of potential money in this. But it’s bad news for Java regardless of the outcome.”
-Gartner analyst Mark Driver, quoted in CNN [...]

Oracle is asking that Google be held ‘liable for infringement of the patents and copyrights’ related to its employment of the Java platform. Here’s a link to the complete text of the lawsuit.

How America’s first colonial capital cleared up its information storage bottlenecks.

Is the work that’s been going on in IT departments over the past decade finally starting to resonate with the business at large?

The Software as a Service market is growing by 25 percent a year. Many new investments are being steered toward Infrastructure and Platform as a Service.

In this week’s Geek & Poke, Oliver Widder points to some deficiencies in the enterprise software development process:

Not every process can, or should be automated.