Joe McKendrick

Joe McKendrick is an author, consultant and speaker specializing in trends and developments shaping the technology industry.

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Service revolution

The global service economy is in a state of upheaval and transformation. The trends and technologies discussed here in SOA are certainly contributing to this coming shift.

January 26, 2005 by Britton Manasco

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Smoking SOA

British American Tobacco -- which operates in 180 countries and manufactures Dunhill, Pall Mall and Lucky Strike cigarette brands -- is leading the pack in the SOA world. With 64 Enterprise Resource Planning platforms worldwide (with as many as 2,000 applications on some of them), the company was desperate to bring some senseto itsIT infrastructure.

January 24, 2005 by Britton Manasco

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Okay, where are the flying cars?

Our fellow ZDNet blogger Dana Blankenhorn picked up on this unusual story about XML Smell, and how it may finally bring some predictions from long ago to reality. The concept of "smellavision," along with a similar concept for movie theaters always seemed like one of those intriguing applications that the Jetsons and other people of the future would enjoy.

January 24, 2005 by

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This is Interoperability Month

Actually, its more like two half months -- January 18th through mid February. Microsoft has posted a bunch of Webcasts in observance of Interoperability Month, each lasting about 15 to 20 minutes, with details on interoperation between .

January 20, 2005 by

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