Labels: Enteprise Mashups, Software as a Service, Software Pipelines
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
An interesting wiki has been published with "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know". The articles were also edited and published in an O'Reilly book - although there's no real point in buying it since they are available on the wiki. The articles are very general, but it's still a surprise to see nothing about Enterprise Mashups or Software Pipelines.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Podcast on Delivering Real-Time Data
Phil Wainewright of ebizQ has conducted an interview with John Crupi on Delivering Real-Time Data that Users Can Act On where he discusses SOA and enterprise mashups. The text is available here and a podcast is available here.
Labels: Enteprise Mashups, Service Oriented Architecture, Software as a Service
Friday, December 12, 2008
Gartner's Top 10 Technologies for 2009
Gartner has nominated its top ten technologies for 2009:
Virtualization
Business Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Green IT
Unified Communications
Social Software and Social Networking
Web Oriented Architecture
Enterprise Mashups
Specialized Systems
Servers – Beyond Blades
As usual, the list contains broad concepts that are no surprise like "Green IT", some hot technologies like "Enterprise Mashups", and some cryptic references that required further reading of Gartner's material to understand. Sadly, no mention of Database Sharding, although the general area is covered well by Web Oriented Architecture - the driving force behind Database Sharding.
Virtualization
Business Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Green IT
Unified Communications
Social Software and Social Networking
Web Oriented Architecture
Enterprise Mashups
Specialized Systems
Servers – Beyond Blades
As usual, the list contains broad concepts that are no surprise like "Green IT", some hot technologies like "Enterprise Mashups", and some cryptic references that required further reading of Gartner's material to understand. Sadly, no mention of Database Sharding, although the general area is covered well by Web Oriented Architecture - the driving force behind Database Sharding.
Labels: Application Development, Database Products, Database Scalability, Enteprise Mashups, Enterprise Development, Java Programming, Software Pipelines
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Is Silverlight 2 Enterprise-Ready?
Microsoft has released version two of its Flex-killer called Silverlight. Microsoft is pushing the technology for use in businesses - essentially for developing enterprise mashups and the types of interactive sites currently built using Flex.
It would be nice to compare Silverlight with Flex, but you need to agree to giving Microsoft "standard computer information" that seems pretty invasive:
Internet-enabled features in software will send information about your computer ("standard computer information") to the Web sites you visit and Web services you use. This information is generally not personally identifiable. Standard computer information typically includes information such as your IP address, operating system version, browser version, your hardware ID which indicates the device manufacturer, device name, and version, application version and your regional and language settings. In this case, the application version would be the version of Silverlight installed on your device. Silverlight contains an update notification feature that sends standard computer information to Microsoft.
Information that is sent to Microsoft by this software will be used to provide you with Silverlight features and services. This information may be used to improve Silverlight and our other products and services, as well as for analysis purposes. Except as described in this statement, information you provide will not be transferred to third parties without your consent. We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as packaging, sending, and delivering purchases and other mailings, answering customer questions about software or services, processing event registration, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Looks like the safest option is to check out the video demos on YouTube!
It would be nice to compare Silverlight with Flex, but you need to agree to giving Microsoft "standard computer information" that seems pretty invasive:
Internet-enabled features in software will send information about your computer ("standard computer information") to the Web sites you visit and Web services you use. This information is generally not personally identifiable. Standard computer information typically includes information such as your IP address, operating system version, browser version, your hardware ID which indicates the device manufacturer, device name, and version, application version and your regional and language settings. In this case, the application version would be the version of Silverlight installed on your device. Silverlight contains an update notification feature that sends standard computer information to Microsoft.
Information that is sent to Microsoft by this software will be used to provide you with Silverlight features and services. This information may be used to improve Silverlight and our other products and services, as well as for analysis purposes. Except as described in this statement, information you provide will not be transferred to third parties without your consent. We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as packaging, sending, and delivering purchases and other mailings, answering customer questions about software or services, processing event registration, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Looks like the safest option is to check out the video demos on YouTube!
Labels: Enteprise Mashups, Flex
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Mashup Developer Community Launched
JackBe, CodeFutures' partner that provides Enterprise Mashup Software, has launched an Enterprise Mashup Developer Community.
As part of the launch, JackBe has started a mashup competition with $4,000 in prizes.
As part of the launch, JackBe has started a mashup competition with $4,000 in prizes.
Labels: Enteprise Mashups
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Forrester on Enterprise Mashups
A new Forrester report predicts that the Enterprise Mashup market will reach nearly $700 million by 2013. Most industry analyst projections for the size of markets five years out seem inflated, but in this case, it seems rather low. Enteprise Mashups will be the dominant architecture and de facto standard for building Web applications - so you would imagine that the total spend on Enteprise Mashups would be in the billions?
Labels: Enteprise Mashups