Monday, August 27, 2007
Links for 2007-08-27
How ironic is it to be looking for a book about social networking and dynamic connectedness in a static bookstore with finite shelf space?
Laurence Hart is thoughtfully tracking the discussion in the blogosphere regarding ECM and SOA. I really hope that Nick Patience, Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Craig Randall and others join in.
Another blogger feels to pain of calendar interoperability
I am surprised that others haven't commented on this posting
Industry Analyst Brenda Michelson is glad that other analyst firms are ringing the death knell for SOA, so that they can focus on the real value. Does this also mean that analysts will no longer do case studies on those who have successfully implemented SOA?
I think but am not sure that Conor and I are on the same page. My previous example supports the notion that I can centrally declare what authorization policies I desire and Amica can enforce them whenever there is access to the resource. In the same way that folks in the identity world separate the notion of identity provider from relying party, the same thing can happen with authorization. There is a place where policies are declared and a place where they are enforced.
I wonder if Enterprise Architects are really this bad/incompetent in practice? I wonder what others think about the pendulum swinging towards IT executives not even having an IT background?
Andy Blumenthal needs to send his federal peers to our shop to see how we have mastery over the issues presented. When will the Federal enterprise architects figure out that they can learn something from their corporate counterparts?
This article should have also mentioned that while corporations are demanding, software vendors aren't providing. Have you ever heard of a single ECM vendor talk about how secure their product is? How they support SAML? How they have adopted secure coding practices?
