Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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Are Web Services Hurting the Software Industry? Julian Hewett, chief analyst at Ovum, thinks so. 'Hewett believes that Web services is a "disruptive technology", which may cause enterprises to move away from buying independent software products and instead move to a "services-based architecture", which improves the outlook for outsourcing and ASPs.' [Source: ZDNet Australia]
Posted Monday, July 21, 2003 5:43:57 PM 
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Orchestration. Catching up on old (some very old) reading, I came across this February 2002 PDF white paper published by Collaxa. It's a good introduction to orchestration and the need for asynchronous messaging.
Posted Monday, July 21, 2003 4:11:55 PM
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Windley: Pipelining the Web. In yet another good InfoWorld article, Phil Windley compares four alternatives for web-services active intermediaries:
Posted Monday, July 21, 2003 4:04:53 PM
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LAMP. Okay, so I'm 2.5 years behind on this one, but maybe you are, too. "LAMP" represents the open source web platform based on Linux, Apache, mySQL, and Perl|Python|PHP.
Posted Monday, July 21, 2003 3:52:05 PM
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Management by Magazine. Great phrase I heard from David Linthicum at the Burton Group Catalyst conference two weeks ago. He was referring to the mistake of making decisions based on what you read in the trade press.
Posted Monday, July 21, 2003 2:32:16 PM
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Hagel: The Pitfalls of Early Web Services Adoption "Web services technology is delivering real business value today – that’s the good news. Early adopters are generally not getting the balance right between near-term business impact and long-term architectural direction – that’s the bad news...There are few, if any, examples of companies systematically surveying the highest impact business areas for Web services deployment. The result is that near-term business impact is generally sub-optimized...Opportunistic, one-off deployments of the technology may solve near-term business problems but, unless they are designed to be consistent with a broader architectural vision, they will contribute nothing towards longer-term value creation." [Read the complete essay in John's weblog, July 16, 2003]
Posted Monday, July 21, 2003 1:46:57 PM
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Phil Wainewright Talks About Web-Service ASPs. In the latest IT Conversation, Phil Wainewright, CEO of Procullux Ventures and publisher of LooselyCoupled.com explains how this new breed of online outsourcers (such as Salesforce.com) differ from the old ASPs. Who should outsource and what applications should they outsource? What can we learn from the PeopleSoft/Oracle/J.D. Edwards situation? Phil explains his concept of "pluggable automation," to what extent it's realistic today, how to select and manage ASPs, and why online outsourcing is better than casual sex.
[stream—download—discuss, 5.7 mb, 25 minutes, recorded 7/1/03]
Posted Monday, July 21, 2003 6:02:45 AM
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