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I’m the mother of a five-year-old girl and I’m often surprised at the number of social nuisances between her and her friends. Most of the time, my job consists of offering guidance about what is and isn’t nice and to occasionally ask, “How would you like it if someone treated you that way?”
Rarely, there’s a […]

As I mentioned last week, Gartner recently released its 2008 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, which a vendor has – for now – made available for free online.
It’s a good report – but there are actually quite a few companies NOT in the Magic Quadrant. Many of them are mentioned at the end of […]

Recently, CIO Magazine and the SOA Consortium teamed up with a contest to find the best SOA case studies. This week, CIO.com announced the winner is Synovus Financial Corp., a provider of investment services, commercial and retail banking.
Guess why Synovus won? Bet you can. Go on, guess.
That’s right: It was because Synovus used SOA to […]

A while back, I interviewed Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, author of “SOA Patterns” and the Architecture & Design blogger at Dr. Dobb’s Journal, about SOA patterns.
He compared SOA patterns to design patterns in software development, adding they’re “repeating solutions to common architectural challenges in distributed systems in general and SOAs in particular.”
In other words, it’s a way […]

You’re more likely to hear complaints about connecting to back-end transaction systems if you’re using .NET, according to a recent survey by Evans Data. .NET developers are also more likely to blame changes at the application level and back-end for slowdown than Java programmers.
Admittedly, that’s not the main point of this Enterprise Systems article covering […]