SOA filling the Gaps

In my Vendor's Survival posts I wrote about many leading vendors. Few posts were on Microsoft:  Will Microsoft survive until 2021? - revisited Will Microsoft survive until 2021? Vendors Survival: Will Microsoft Survive until 2018? I also posted about Vendors technologies, strategies and acquisitions related to their Long Term survival. The post  Microsoft's Skype acquisition: Warning Signs ahead is an example. Yesterday, there was a long Microsoft Azure Service Outage . The reason for the outage was a time miscalculation for a leap year .  A long Service Outage is not unique to Windows Azure's PaaS  platform. There were long Service Outage in services provided by other Cloud Computing vendors such as Amazon and Google . The outage has nothing to do with Microsoft's Long Term Survival probability.   The reason for the outage is related to Microsoft's Survival: It is an indication of a very poor Software  Quality Assurance . Yesterday Microsoft proved th...

What was changed fundamentally when Google switched to its new Privacy Policy instead of multiple Policies, each policy related to a different product? Many people think that this change is the End of Google as You Know it . Some of them think that the slogan Don't be Evil should no longer be associated with the company. As you can easily guess from this post's title my opinion is different. The Problem Google is gathering a lot of information about its users.  Usage of this information could threaten these users Privacy.  The information is used by Google mainly for advertising, because its Business Model is based on optimizing the advertising to each user profile or characteristics. User Privacy could be violated not only for undesired advertisement but for other purposes.       Is Google unique? Gathering user information and analyzing it by Business Intelligence tools is a common practice. Many Web based companies like Amazon or eBay ...