SOA filling the Gaps

Reuse is often cited as a major SOA benefit and justification. It is easy to explain and to understand Reuse Value Proposition in IT and Business perspectives. Services and Processes Reuse reduces Maintenance & Development costs, enable shorter Time to Market and is a key for building applications through assembly of existing Services by non-IT employees as mentioned in my first Web 2.0 for Dummies post . Understanding, Reuse Value Proposition is not enough for realizing the benefits. A SOA initiative without Reuse or with a low Reuse Ratio is doomed to failure. According to many analysts' reports, NIH is a consideration of some software products they analyze. NIH, stands for Not Invented Here. As most of the analyst firms' headquarters are in the largest market i.e. USA , it stands for software products build by companies in other parts of the globe. For example, Fujitsu 's excellent BPM suite invented in Japan or many years ago Dynasty one o...

--> In previous post I compared Microsoft's Office 3.1 Word to Microsoft's Office 2003 Word. --> Many people would argue that the comparison is meaningless: IT is evolving and a version ten years younger is surely better. It includes enhancements based on experience and users requirements and bug fixes and evolution of the vendor's infrastructure and techniques. Let us ask another question: Which Microsoft Windows Operating System is better XP or Vista ? I am not sure that experts will agree that the newer Vista is better. I would suspect that even the vendor's experts opinions vary: some Microsoft 's experts probably will argue that XP is a better operating system. T he popularity of a downgrade option to XP is another indication that Vista may not always be better than XP. --> The speculations about Microsoft's intention to skip Vista 's evolution and release Windows 7 earlier than planned could sustain my thesis:...

The question which Microsoft Word product is better seems ridiculous. We expect an evolution and improvement of a software product. Microsoft produced Office 95 , Office 97, Office 2000 and Office XP . All these versions followed Office 3.1 (which was produced in the beginning of the nineties under Windows 3.1 Operating System ). The answer is not as simple as the question. Probably Word 2003 is better unless you use a spelling checker for documents including text in more than one language. Maybe Word 3.1 spelling checker is functionally limited and not user friendly but at least it is doing the job. Using spelling checker in Word 2003 could lead to unpredictable results: Sometimes it will do the job and sometimes a buffer overflow will cause abnormal end of Word. The post titled Zen and the Art of MS Office Problem Determination in my blog was relatively popular and some of the readers added comments. The reason for the relatively large number of readers is simpl...

A Keynote presentation titled O racle Fusion Middleware and BEA: an inside Look – Product Strategy , may clarify some of Oracle 's SOA directions discussed in a post immediately after the acquisition and a follow up post. It is a presentation on SOA products strategy as well as to other related products strategy. The approach is to define mix of BEA and Oracle products as strategic components composing Oracle's SOA platform. The leading brand name is Oracle Fusion., however in some areas Oracle offerings include two competing products: Oracle's and BEA's. In other cases one of product is a preferred solution. The most relevant slide is presented above. This slide presents a SOA suit. In my opinion, although quantitatively more Oracle components are included, the most significant elements are BEA's products. The ESB is BEA's Aqua Logic and Complex Events handling is based upon BEA's product. It should be noted that not all SOA infr...

I presented in a meeting on September 14 th about NESSI Israeli Mirror Platform establishment. About 40 people from various Israeli companies participated in the meeting titled: NESSI- Service Based European platform for Leveraging Research & Development NESSI (Networked European Software & Services Initiative) is the European Technology Platform dedicated to Software and Services. The main focus of NESSI is that of service . See t he agenda of the meeting. The post includes my presentation in that event titled: NESSI – Is there a Vlaue Proposition for SOA in Israel

Google is celebrating this year its 10 th anniversary.  Google is the most typical Web 2.0 company  (see my post Web 2.0 for Dummies part 4 ). It is a very successful company, changing the IT industry as well as the Web culture. Will Google celebrate it 20 th anniversary in ten years or will Google vanish? Most people's opinion is that Google will continue to dominate its traditional business areas and probably expand its business to new domains. Recently I read the book The Google Story by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed. It seems like this interesting book is biased. It is pro Google. However, the company earned my sympathy. Two Stanford doctorate students ( Larry Page & Sergey Brin ) working hard trying to build the best search engine. Their motives are more scientific than becoming rich as soon as possible. They were paving a unique lane, different from most Dot Com companies, insisting on uncommon ideas (e.g. loading the Web content into their GooglePlex )...