Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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WorldCom May Go Grid. "WorldCom, whose accounting-fraud disclosures last year led to a $107 billion bankruptcy-protection filing...is talking to Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and researchers at the open-source grid computing Globus Project about applying the technology to help customers build hosted data centers capable of deploying more computers when demand is high -- say, around Christmas for a retailer -- then taking those machines offline when usage ebbs, lowering costs." [Source: InformationWeek.com]
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2003 10:29:38 PM 
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Take Back America. I've been frustrated, trying to figure out what *I* could do to help regain control of our country from the neo-conservative hijackers. Then a friend forwarded the following URLs to articles by Thom Hartmann. The first is scary, but it rings true. The second gives me ideas for my personal actions moving forward.
When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History
How To Take Back America
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:22:59 PM
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Service-Oriented Thinking. David Smith, a VP and Web services evangelist at Gartner Inc., says IT departments exploring the value of Web services need to focus on the services that the technology can provide to their enterprise. He dubbed this approach 'Service-oriented thinking.' [Source: ADTmag.com]
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2003 1:55:48 PM
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Web Services Get Practical. According to E-Commerce, "The hype surrounding Web services...has faded. In its wake [the wake of the hype, I assume] has come slow but steady adoption as businesses find ways to leverage Web services to increase efficiency and improve customer relationships."
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:52:58 AM
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The Myth of Loosely Coupled Web Services. David Chappell writes in his Opinari newsletter: "Which of these three statements is true?
1. Web services are inherently loosely coupled.
2. Loosely coupled communication is better than tightly coupled communication.
3. The WS-Reliability spec will help usher in a world of loosely coupled web services."
His answer: none of them.
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2003 5:51:23 AM
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