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Here's my notes from the afternoon's first panel session.

Big-bang SOA migrations with millions of dollars spent on software, infrastructure and consulting services are likely off the table.

Here are my notes from this session.

Here are my notes from this session.

Packt Publishing recently asked me to review a copy of Michael Havey's new book, SOA Cookbook

The day of an 11 month old boy: Stalk Mouse - Check Attack Mouse - Check Wrestle on the floor with mouse - Check Kill Mouse - Check Nap - Check Life is good. LewisC Technorati : family, fun, off topic, photo

I'm at the 7th Annual Seneca Free Software and Open Source Symposium at York University in Toronto, Canada. Here are my notes from the first morning session.

4.6 Availability of Standards     ABCModel2 Company’s IS is heterogeneous – it is comprised of many vendors, many architectures, and many interfaces.  These must now work together far more readily than was attempted o...

I hear that ego's are being bruised and faces are turning black and blue over this one. It appears to be starting in China but I am pretty sure it will spread over the world in short order. Microsoft has no compunction on trying anything to fight back against piracy of its products. Well maybe not everything. For them to stop piracy once and for all then all they need to do is open source their

4.5 Standards 4.5.1 Introduction Standards play an ever increasing role in the computer industry.  Standards allow application and solution providers to concentrate on using innovation and new technology to provide business benefits rather ...

I have been digging into the internet archive to find the oldest DataStage website and come up with a press release announcing the launch of DataStage – the flagship product of the InfoSphere Information Server.

Last week I did a post about a new DB2 Certification test that is now available, Test 737. If you want to read more about the test, you can check out that post at....

“Assuming someone gets my wireless network pass key for WPA-PSK/TKIP, what (other than use my wireless) can someone do with this information? Can someone in turn, begin to decrypt my wireless data and see my communication? Could this information be used for "man-in-the-middle" attacks?”

4.4 Portability 4.4.1 Overview In order to enable ABCModel2 Company to purchase packaged software that meets the business needs, it is imperative that the architecture addresses portability, interoperability and integration. The reader may believe...

A quick side-note: for various reasons (one really), we as a family don’t fly. I fly, but we don’t fly. So, we took the train to California, specifically Amtrak’s “California Zephyr” from Chicago to just outside Oakland. It’s a great trip, two nights (get a compartment to sleep), through Iowa cornfields and the wide plains to Denver, up and over the Rockies, through moonscape parts of Utah, along

Scrap and I had clocked nearly an entire week of billable hours since Kip's request for help. We rigged a temporary network of sanitized machines behind a known good firewall for temporary internet access and were nearly done with our forensic examin...

In my last post I said that data drives information. With that being the case information drives business. I said to keep it simple. But how to do it. Here's what we did. First determine the information that the business needs and this is very different than the data you can dump on them. You must find out what the critical information is that the business operates on. Next you are going to isolate

4.3 Interoperability 4.3.1 ABCModel2 Company’s IS Driver Definition Definition “Interoperability” is the ability of components of technology to exchange electronic information, either directly through complete compatibility, or b...

4.2 Enterprise Computing 4.2.1 Overview A single computer system, such as the mainframe, is like a ship -- a complete system of complex interacting elements. Guiding and running a ship is one challenge. Guiding and controlling a fleet of ships is a...

The new Forrester Wave report is out and it's on Vitria's site for free - requires registration.