November 2007 Entries
Is it just me getting old, or is it getting harder and harder to keep up these days? From an industry point of view, it seems to me that the waves of new technology keep coming faster than ever, but the adoption rate isn't quite what it used to be. Maybe it never was what I thought it was. I guess I always enjoyed trying to stay on the cutting edge and wrote off people that didn't as lazy or no fun. It just seems that post the dotcom bust, companies are a lot more cautious about taking on new technologies....
One of the best attended sessions at the SOA Conference in Redmond last week was actually the last session on the last day when usually most people would be headed towards the airport. It was on the ESB Guidance that has been in the works for several months. Marty Wasznicky demo'd the final release bits and discussed the most recent refinements and changes. He was basically done at that point, just waiting for the final i's to be dotted and t's to be crossed on the deployment package and for it all...
Ok, so I have a theme going and thought I might as well run with it. I promise this is the last "Is x Dead?" post. Of course BizTalk isn't dead. But it is going to change in the next couple of years. What I am talking about here is "Oslo", the recently announced, next-generation distributed computing vision from Microsoft. Oslo takes SOA to the Internet I was out at the SOA conference last week where Microsoft first publicly shared the vision that they are code-naming Oslo. There is a great story...
Ok, so I have a theme going and thought I might as well run with it. I promise this is the last "Is x Dead?" post. Of course BizTalk isn't dead. But it is going to change in the next couple of years. What I am talking about here is "Oslo", the recently announced, next-generation distributed computing vision from Microsoft. Oslo takes SOA to the Internet I was out at the SOA conference last week where Microsoft first publicly shared the vision that they are code-naming Oslo. There is a great story...
I've been busy, but obviously not blogging. My last blog entry was May 2006! Since then I've: Continued to lead the Enterprise Integration Practice at twentysix New York (http://www.26ny.com/index.... - we've built up a team of BizTalk talent that is second to none. We have 7 certified BizTalk consultants: Jeff Bolton and Joe Tsai were from the farm team; Seong-moh Yang, Alex Star, Shashi Raina, and Juan Suero were brought in as free agents. And I am the player/coach. Seriously, it's great working...