dan foody

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WOA is SOA - Take 2

Wow, Ron Schmelzer reacted, how should I put it, somewhat unkindly to my last post.  Yes Ron, I did read the whole article (and Nick Gall's too!)

I guess my point was probably too...

WOA is SOA?

Ron Schmelzer of ZapThink recently wrote an article on WOA (web oriented architecture), saying that we should really think of WOA as a subset of SOA, and that maybe it should be called "Web...

SOA Ironic

If you were listening to the webinar I gave a few days ago, you probably remember the phone system going haywire with feedback (don't worry, if you listen to the recording we're posting, this will have been edited out).

One of the topics I was talking about right at the time the feedback...

dan foody April 25, 2008
A Problem Common to SaaS and SOA

I read a blog posting from the other day by a frustrated software as a service (SaaS) vendor venting that:

  • They need rapid release cycles... but,
  • They can't find all issues in their pre-production...
dan foody April 15, 2008
SOA on ACID

Tony Baer reported a recent IBM event where Steve Mills talked about how the next stage for SOA was to add ACID reliability and fault tolerance to it.  Am I the only one that doesn't understand this?

If IBM really means ACID (as in formal database-type transactions), then maybe they...

dan foody April 10, 2008
A power shift in organizations

I read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today.  It was on a topic totally unrelated to SOA, but carried an important message hidden within it:  Power is shifting to the users and away...

dan foody March 31, 2008
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