SOA filling the Gaps

I presented in a meeting on September 14 th about NESSI Israeli Mirror Platform establishment. About 40 people from various Israeli companies participated in the meeting titled: NESSI- Service Based European platform for Leveraging Research & Development NESSI (Networked European Software & Services Initiative) is the European Technology Platform dedicated to Software and Services. The main focus of NESSI is that of service . See t he agenda of the meeting. The post includes my presentation in that event titled: NESSI – Is there a Vlaue Proposition for SOA in Israel

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 )...

--> One of SOA 's Value Propositions is platform independence. Some people's view is that SOA is a collection of Lego like services connected together as Black Boxes so it does not matter, which platforms and technologies are used for service implementations. Although the Lego analogy could be useful, it is sometimes too simplistic.Usgae of Obsolete Platforms as part of your SOA can demonstrate the limitations of platform independence in SOA implementation. Obsolete Platforms are platforms near the end of their Life Cycle. They are characterized by lack of new installations, gradual migration to other platforms and slower development and updating of the platform's software. In previous post titled Mainframe and the Dinosaurous Myth , I discussed Mainframes as a full participant in the SOA implementation. Make no mistakes, Obsolete Platforms are not z/OS , CICS or DB2 and therefore probably will be at best partial participants. Technical Consideratio...

In my Web 2.o for Dummies posts I discussed Web 2.0 usage by commercial companies. The companies use Blog s , Virtual Worlds , and Wikies. They use YouTube videos as well. An interesting idea of a mobile device application adding human memory in remembering -->people is presented by a YouTube video made by IBM. It is also a good example of Web 2.0 usage by --> example of Web 2.0 usage by companies.

--> This post is the 8 th post in the "Web 2.0 for dummies" posts, based on my Web 2.0 presentation in a conference. After tasting Web 2.0 (part 2) understanding what it is (part 4) and understanding Mashups, Virtual Realities , Wikipedia we will look at the world of Social Networks. Networks enable people to connect to other people with similar interests or history. People gradually build their networks by connecting to other people or connecting to network content. Networks like Linkedin or Plaxo are more professional than social. Facebook and Myspace are examples of Social networks. However, Professional networks are also used for Social purposes and Social Networks are also used for business interactions. --> Networks Models --> F irst generation: Connecting People Linkedin is a good example of Professional Network of that type. A member may request to connect to another member. The other member may accept the invitation or re...