SOA filling the Gaps

The results of my first taste of Wolfram Alpha prior to its launching support my view in a previous pos t: It is relatively good in mathematics, Physics and other sciences. However, even in these fields it is far less good than expected. Some people who glorify it were deeply disappointed. I tried in vain to find answers to very basic non-scientific questions. For example, Games is one of the categories (Sport &Games) cited in Wolfram Alpha's Web site examples . The games of Chess and the game of Bridge are unknown to its Answers Engine. It is unfair to judge a product even prior to its launch; therefore I am not going to analyze its ability to answer different type of questions. I will wait about half a year before analyzing it deeply.

A new killer in town: Wolfram Alpha is the Google Killer. Is it really a Google Killer as dubbed by some people? Although, my knowledge of Wolfram Alpha is less than limited, I am sure it is not. Some arguments supporting my view: 1. Wolfram Alpha is not available yet for public use even as a Beta. People impressions are based on previous achievements of Stephen   Wolfram , Demos, an empty Web site and a blog. As far as marketing is concerned, it is a huge success: so many references in the Web before it was released. 2. Is it a Search Engine? A Knowledge Base? An encyclopedia? If it is not a search engine it is not competing directly with Google. 3. Frequently IT application Killers or Infrastructure Killers were doomed to death before their competitors they tried to kill. For examples, IBM's 9370 computers described in the nineties as VAX killers fade away about 10 or 15 years before VAX computers end of life. An article I read many years ago was titles: R...

This post is another post in the Vendors Survival series following posts on Microsoft , Google , HP and Sun . I read a post by Jason Hiner the Editor in Chief of TechRepublic in his Zdnet blog. The post presents 7 possible vendors' acquisitions and merges during 2009. EMC is a player in hypothesis number 1: Dell and EMC merge and in hypothesis number 2: Cisco buys Vmware . I do not think these two hypotheses will be realized. I do think that EMC management team will not make these two mistakes in 2009, if the company would like to survive until 2018. Why EMC should not sell Vmware? Jason Hiner wrote "EMC, the world’s leading storage vendor, is flush with cash and has the opportunity to make a big move". If a company has a big amount of cash, it should have a good reason for selling a company it owns. I do not find any reasonable Business Case for selling Vmware. It is true that Vmware is no longer the only leader in Virtualization functionality, ...