SOA filling the Gaps

Three years ago I wrote one of my Vendors Survival posts. The post was titled:  Vendors Survival: Will Google Survive until 2018? The Vendors Survival posts analyze the probability that vendors will survive for at least ten years. Most of them are about leading vendors such as Apple , Microsoft , HP , EMC etc. The previous post was on Zapthink, a small SOA and Cloud Analysts and Consultants company acquired by Dovel Systems. Ten years predictions are usually inaccurate. However, The only leading vendor I predicted that will not survive was SUN Microsystems , who was shortly afterwards an acquisition target for IBM and acquired by Oracle . I recently read Google's announcement about shutting down some of its products  and  a similar announcement  about other products . Shutting down products and services looks like a sign of weakening. Some people argue that Google Social Software initiatives like Buzz, Jaiko and Google+ fails to compete with Facebook ...

Sundar Pichai Picture Source: Wikipedia The previous post raised a technical issue reflecting a problem in Google's Blogspot.  After I fixed the problem, I still get the error message: Earnings at risk - You need to fix some ads.txt file issues to avoid severe impact to your revenue. FIX NOW LEARN MORE The other message  " It may take a few days for changes to update."    still appearing ten days after. "Few days" according to Google is at least ten days. The problem I depicted in the previous post is a minor problem in comparison to other problems Google should address.   That is why I am asking the question: Will Google Survive until 2030? I already asked few times the question: Will Google Survive for ten years? I askes it in 2008 , 2011 and 2011 - Revisited .  As far as Google's Survival is concerned, I am less optimistic than I was few years ago. Current Problems Employees' Dissatisfaction The indic...

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 )...

    Google's headquarters, the  Googleplex   Picture Source: Wikipedia What is Root Level Domain and what is Root Cause Analysis? It is easy to define   Root Cause Analysis (RCA). For example, you can read an article on it in the English Wikipedia.  In the context of Risk Management, RCA is a Risk Identification and Risk Assessment technique. Root    Level Domain  is not well defined in the context of Google's Blog spot.  Therefore the answer to the question in this post's title is:  Root Cause Analysis. Google is in a risk. The next post in this blog will be titled: Vendors Survival: will Google Survive until 2030?   Google and The Devil  The proverb "the Devil is hidden in the details" is applicable to Google's advertisement in Blogger's blogs: A good  new   idea but poor design and very poor execution . This is a small indicator showing that Google is not the same Google of 10...