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 is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm.
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.
Eclipse is evolving into an open, trusted and neutral congregation of standardization efforts without peer.
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.
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.
Our customers are asking us to pursue innovation on the pre-deployment side ... By automating the menial tasks, individual developers can now spend more time innovating, delivering value and being a better partner to the business.
Live Clipboard is, in effect, a compromise that could be amenable to the major parties affected ... something we don't see neatly enough of from vendors.
The goal of the rich Internet application (RIA) model is to provide lightweight yet easy to consume applications that are served primarily from services borne of a SOA.
Very interesting use-case scenario for Open-Xchange 5. When price and user experience are so compelling, when compared to Domino and Microsoft Exchange Server, can the inclusion of such messaging components within general OSS stacks -- just second-nature choices for embedded collaboration functions -- be far behind?
Does it then make sense to pay for pricey annual subscriptions to access an analysis firm's findings that, when the stodgy documents arrive two months after the market moves, are no better than what an RSS reader, Google search, and iTunes can give you on the same subjects within hours of a meaningful event in IT?
The bottom line is that application developers need data access in an automated and simplified manner. Give it to them. Your SOA process architects will thank you later on.