Web Services Strategies
Beyond the technology, IT strategies for implementation of Web services by Doug Kaye.
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Good Reads. I spent much of a three-day weekend catching up on some web-services related reading. Here are the highlights:
- Stemming the Software Spending Spree. My favorite of the week, by Chuck Phillips, a top analyst at Morgan Stanley. "Spending 100 million to install SAP and another $50 million two years later to clean up isn't fun." And regarding approaches to application integration, "Web services: These aren't a realistic option yet." I love Chuck's writing style, too.
- UBL: The Next Step for Global E-Commerce (PDF). "The lack of a standard for business documents is not due to a shortage of specifications but rather to an overabundance."
- Web Services Infrastructures (PDF). The best part of Phil Wainewright's whitepaper is the section entitled, "Enterprises become ASPs," in which he explains that enterprises must deploy their composite applications in one of three infrastructure modes: self-hosted, self-managed; self-hosted, remote-managed; or private-label hosted.
- Real Time Enterprises: A Continuous Migration Approach (PDF). This one is most notable because of its co-author, Vinod Khosla, one of the most technical partners at venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Vinod is on the board of Asera, where co-author Urugan Pal is Founding Engineer and Architect. The whitepaper is a bit of an Asera fluff piece, written in analyst-ese, but there are valuable nuggets if you're willing to mine for them. "We will recommend federation, not integration of applications, and a bias towards a more dynamic architecture."
Thanks to all who continue to send me links to good whitepapers and articles.
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 10:30:35 AM 
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When to Dive... One advantage of working in timezones eight hours apart is that I can publish something at midnight and Julian Bond can cast a fresh set of eyes over it minutes later at 8am his time. Read Julian's insightful comments on my essay. He's right on, and you'll see improvements inspired by him and others in the next edition.
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 12:32:36 AM
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