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Bookmarks for October 28th

by Ron Bieber on Tuesday, October 28, 2008

  • WOA! SOA meets Web 2.0 – SD Times On The Web – "The ugly truth behind SOA, as we've discussed here a few times, is that it's a slow evolution, not a revolution. It's complex, expensive, but typically worth it if you hang in there. However, hanging in there is something that U.S. companies don't do well. Tactical issues often trump strategic projects, thus SOA is slow on the uptake. "
  • Ironick: Less is More – The Comic – Comic that compares Apple, Google, and the typical enterprise application. Pretty funny.
  • InfoQ: How to GET a Cup of Coffee – "We are used to building distributed systems on top of large middleware platforms like those implementing CORBA, the Web Services protocols stack, J2EE, etc. In this article, we take a different approach, treating the protocols and document formats that make the Web tick as an application platform, which can be accessed through lightweight middleware."
  • Julian Harris, Social Computing Guy » Second Generation Web Services: REST/WOA vs SOA – "SOA has been around a few years — and where are we? Dion Hinchecliffe’s response is, well, actually, SOA has its place, but it’s complex and inflexible and in lots of cases, REST / WOA (Representational State Transfer / Web Oriented Architecture) is likely way more sensible"
  • WW Grainger: Investing in Nuts and Bolts – Seeking Alpha – "I'm talking about WW Grainger, Inc. (NYSE: GWW), a global industrial service business powerhouse. Grainger provides the nuts and bolts – and just about everything else – from one of its more than 600 branches to over 115,000 customers every day."

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links for 2008-04-22

April 21, 2008

Red Hat, Novell: desktop Linux an enterprise thing—for now
Red Hat and Novell concentrating on Enterprise Linux now, not desktop for consumer.
(tags: linux enterprise desktop)

AGILE IN ACTION: Challenges for the Product Stream concept
The Product Stream concept is a simple one. A product stream contains a self-organising team and a Product Owner, yet it engages with the [...]

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Subversion, MediaWiki, Wordpress, and LDAP

July 17, 2007

One of the biggest arguments you’ll get in deploying open source software in a corporate environment perception that they are extra, standalone applications. If your corporation uses an LDAP server, you can get some big wins by ensuring that your open source applications can authenticate with your corporate LDAP store, showing integration with [...]

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Dabble DB – WOW

September 9, 2006

Back in June, Tom the Architect posted about something called Dabble DB that he said was pretty impressive. He described it as “collaborative data management, authoring, and publishing web application”. I made mental note to check it out (Tom doesn’t normally recommend stuff on his blog unless its exceptionally cool) [...]

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