Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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Waiting for Amazon. Jay Han has written a Python script to check Amazon.com for the availability of my new book. His script uses Amazon.com's web-services interface, of course. Doh! Why didn't I think of that?!
Posted Friday, April 04, 2003 11:13:56 PM 
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Level 3 to Exit Web Hosting Business. Level 3 is walking away from its web-hosting business, and handing the keys, staff, leases, and customers to Computer Sciences Corp. "The Internet hosting business was expected to generate revenues of about $40 million, and a loss, excluding interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, of about $5 million for the full year 2003." Given that Level 3 is the one telco that attracted investment from Warren Buffet, what does that say about the health and profitability of the web-hosting business? It's certainly not encouraging. [Source: Reuters]
Posted Friday, April 04, 2003 1:48:14 PM
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Prepare for an Avalance of Books. As Phil Wainewright points out, a number of "second-generation" books on web services and service-oriented architectures have just been published. Including my own Loosely Coupled, these are the books that transcend the protocols and explore architecture and strategy. With so many titles appearing all at once, let's hope someone will take the time to write a comparative review for the community. (If you're that person, I'll arrange for you to receive a review copy.)
Posted Friday, April 04, 2003 8:24:38 AM
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Service Oriented Architectures. Clemens Vasters has posted this PowerPoint slide deck (PDF) for a SOA talk he does on the Microsoft EMEA Architect's Tour 2003. Good concepts here. [776kb]
Posted Friday, April 04, 2003 2:54:39 AM
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