I have been reading a few articles on the internet and in various documents that tend to come to the conclusion that web-services and BPEL are the answer to all problems, in much the way that CORBA, RMI, J2EE (insert technology of choice) were touted in previous years. I would suggest to the contrary...
In the technology markets I have been working in for the past 20 years, July and August are typically slow. The promotion calendar drops back a few notches, Europe takes a holiday, and in general life is restored however briefly to a more manageable pace and rate of change. Not so this...
Moving your IT organization to service oriented architecture is hard, no doubt about it. But, at the same time, avoiding SOA isn't going to protect you. Whether you like it or not, you'll end up with many of the same problems in your IT environment whether or not you choose to wholeheartedly adopt...
Too often organisations consider acquiring IT with an ambitious program of IT infrastructure change and the belief that a radical, multi-year re-architecting of the organisation’s systems will lead to a more capable and modern IT architecture that is better able to respond to the requirements of...