Splunk Base converges openness, Wikis, and searchable systems log data into a new reliability resource
It's a feedback loop of high-value but low-cost to the participants, just the kind of productivity I like.
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Analyst Dana Gardner examines IT news and trends that impact software strategists to provide insights and outcomes on SOA, app dev, SaaS, enterprise infrastructure and mobile convergence.
Dana Gardner
Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm.
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Bit pipes win if they can give users the tools to manage services and content
Let the true competition between the IP pipes people move from the hoarding of locked-down content (which is quickly moving to seemingly free, where it should be) to the services interface and intelligent filtering capabilities, the higher value-added services of user empowerment and convienent management of all the services regardless of origin.
Answering Sun's open source Java question is easy, and it's one word
Kudos to Peter Yared at ActiveGrid for banging on Sun Microsystems on open sourcing Java, or at least the JVM. And thanks to Dan Farber for amplifying the call.
Don't know where your code comes from? Send lawyers, guns, and money
Many of us have been wondering when the high level of U.S. liability enforcements of a civil litigation variety will emerge within software.
Rogue Wave has identified a top-tier SOA capability that deeply exploits parallelism and virtualization
This could end up being a quick way to manage component heterogeneity and ushering it to services orchestration in a high-performance and transactional integrity mode that exploits the price-performance benefits of multi-core-enabled grids.
Nexaweb draws a brilliant bead between SOA and AJAX values
The net-net is you can use XML and Eclipse plug-ins for a RAD benefit to RIA and Web 2.0 applications with powerful data presentations.
SOA governance demands a human face
Some insightful words from Cape Clear CEO Annrai O'Toole: While governance affects the entire application life-cycle, the critical issues relate to the challenges highly distributed development imposes on human-to-human communication during design-time. We believe that the right tools to design and manage all the human aspects of SOA look more like a Wiki than a formal database.
EclipseCon shows a swiftly expanding role for the open tools foundation
Eclipse is evolving into an open, trusted and neutral congregation of standardization efforts without peer.
More unsolicited advice for Sun: Buy Borland's IDEs
Sun already has designs on converting, in the field, the Borland tools shops to use the Sun/NetBeans tools. That will be very rough hoeing, friends.
SOA rollout process still seems messy, perhaps for the best
The way SOA emerges in any given organization more closely resembles a Jackson Pollock painting in terms of process ... do it your own messy way.