SOA filling the Gaps

I n a previous post I asked the question: Will Software AG survive until 2019.  The intended acquisition of IDS Scheer was the trigger for writing the post. On October, 23 the intention was translated to Software AG's acquisition of 90% of IDS Scheer .

After hearing a podcast of Dana Gardner's interesting interviewing Aneel Bhusri Workday CEO , I tried to figure out what went wrong in the transition from traditional applications suites composed of large components to Service Oriented based application suites. In 2003 I had to present Giga Information Group's view in a local ERP conference in Haifa. A presentation by Giga's Analyst (and afterwards Forrester Research Analyst) Byron Miller titled: "ERP Technology Is Going Mainstream" was used for that purpose. The presentation depicts three possible future ERP states: Suite State – proprietary vendors suits. Industry or Vendor Ecosystems – more evolved standard based suits. New B-O-B World – standards based Best of Breed state. Use of ERP components from different suits is possible because of the standardization. New B-O-B World is the most desired state; however according to Giga's prediction the most probable future state is Suite ...

More than a week ago I wrote a post on Oracle-Sun hardware in the light of Exadata 2 announcement. This announcement did not change my view before the acquisition and right after the Sun acquisition : Oracle is not a hardware vendor. This post is more technical than the previous posts mentioned above. Storage Hierarchy The schematic illustration above depicts schematically Storage Hierarchy. It includes internal memory, as well as external storage. The top of the hierarchy includes small, fast and expensive storage types, so the amount of storage of that types is limited. Sometimes the amount is also limited by technological constraints. As we proceed down the hierarchy the storage is cheaper and the amount of storage of that kind is larger, but the time required for accessing it is longer. The illustration does not show size ratios it shows only size order from smaller to bigger. It also does not differentiate between slow and slower storage included in the bottom ...