SOA filling the Gaps

Shadow IT is growing and growing. In this post I explain what Shadow IT is and how it is related to the Business-IT Gap.  What is Shadow IT? Shadow IT is Information Technology   Applications , Systems and Infrastructure, which are developed and/or used without decisions and without approval of the Enterprise Management Team and the CIO .  Sometimes the Enterprise Management don't even know that these "Shadows" are executed as part of the Enterprise Information Technology. Shadow IT Trends and Directions Shadow IT is almost as old as Information Technology. When I worked on Y2K Bug , IT assets mapping was a necessary step.  We discovered Shadow IT applications such as Microsoft Excel applications, Reports using orphan tools (The company which built the tool was out of Business), Microsoft Access Applications and Data (The End User who developed them was no longer an employee of that Enterprise) etc.  If you read Alex Salazar's article: A little L...

Today (April, 21) is the Holocaust Day. This post is in the memory of my cousins, aunts and uncles murdered by the Nazis in concentration camps before I was born. I n July 2008 I published a post in my Vendor Survival series. In the post titled Will SUN Microsystems Survive until 2018? I argued that Sun will not survive and named IBM , HP and EMC as companies which may think of Sun as target for acquisition. My opinion was supported by S un discussing with IBM the possibility that IBM will acquire it . However, Sun attempts to being acquired by IBM failed. Sun's board was divided to acquisition supporter ( Jonathan Schwartz camp) and those who opposed the deal ( Scott McNealy camp). Instead of being purchased by IBM for $7 billion USDs, Sun is going to be acquired by Oracle for approximately $7.4 billion. I never thought of Oracle as a potential buyer of Sun or any other hardware vendor.I still think that Oracle's decision to buy Sun is probably wrong. Oracle ...