by Nick Gall | January 30, 2009 | 3 Comments
My keynote at the Microsoft SOA and BP conference has generated a bit of press, including this excellent summary by Darryl Taft ("Gartner: How to Unify Your SOA Roll-Out") and this take on a quote from that article by Joe McKendrick ("Analyst: ‘you’ll all be doing SOA in 18 months whether you plan to or [...]
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by Nick Gall | January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
Anne Thomas Manes has started the new year of with a bang by declaring: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services. While I agree with many of the sentiments behind Anne’s declarations that “SOA is dead”, I disagree with her way forward: “long live services”. It is services thinking, as conventionally understood, that led to the [...]
by Nick Gall | November 19, 2008 | 17 Comments
As my friend and colleague Anthony Bradley just pointed out in his blog, our WOA note has finally been published (subscription required) and it’s something that I am very proud of. Not just because my co-authors Anthony, Dan Sholler and I produced a well-crafted piece of research (if I do say so myself), but more [...]
by Nick Gall | November 18, 2008 | Comments Off
There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the Service-Orientated Architecture Yahoo Group. Below is an excerpt of one of my contributions to give you a flavor of the debate. Please join in (preferably on my side <grin>)! I’m calling [Bull****] on Business-SOA, which I interpret as business-only SOA, ie believing that technology is basically [...]
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by Nick Gall | September 16, 2008 | Comments Off
I attended Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s “Mastermind Interview” at Gartner’s Web Innovation conference earlier today. It was very entertaining and insightful. My favorite takeaway BY FAR was this: Marc: “Your application? It’s all metadata.” Marc: “We run your metadata.” I find it refreshing that Marc calls this concept “metadata driven” instead of the more hifalutin [...]
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