I.B.M. is increasingly betting that it can build a big business around open-source software. The latest step in that strategy is the purchase of Gluecode Software, an open-source start-up...
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Just found a link to this document that gives a brief overview to CMMi and some of the differences between CMM and CMMi. A good read for anybody who is interested in process implementation.
By the way, if you're really interested in serious process implementation, you should take a look at the latest version of our tool, Digité Enterprise 4.1. It'll make process implementation a breeze...
BEA Alchemy is an IE (browser) plugin that is being developed as a way to deliver rich data to thin clients and also help them work in an 'Occasionally Connected' mode. Jon Udell in this article says:
“The caching scheme is the heart and soul of Alchemy. Current approaches to taking browsers offline typically queue messages that later update in a server-based data model. An Alchemy application, though, always works with a genuine local data model that it stores as sets of XML fragments and navigates in a relational style. Bosworth’s hunch is that a Web-style thin client, driven by a rich data model intelligently synchronized with the services cloud, could do most of what we really need — both offline and online. ”
Looks like Alchemy in combination with Liquid Data is going to give Macromedia Central and Flex a run for their money....
Macromedia’s server-side products have never quite enjoyed the same kind of success that it’s desktop applications have (the exception being Cold Fusion, but then it was already quite successful before it became a part of the Macromedia stable.)
So with the release of Macromedia Flex, is this equation going to change?
Not sure.
Firstly, there is a very similar product in Laszlo Presentation Server that has been around for a while. But despite its potential, I’m not sure if Laszlo has made quite the impact it was hoping to. Flex is definitely has a advantage in Brady (the MXML editor) but the real challenge for application developers would be to justify the cost of an additional application server just to render the UI which in turn requires a plugin on the client.
Somehow, I’m finding this a little difficult to justify. Had the same problem justifying Generator development about four years ago. But then that was the dot.com boom time, and funding an ambitious online application was slightly easier than it is now. So the question is, will Flex go the Generator way?
I usually do not blog about my work, but I just came across this link via DigitalMediaMinute and found it quite relevant to what we do at Digité.
The article outlines all the steps that needs to be present in a successful project. But no matter how well you plan out a project, execution is never that simple. Which is why tools like Digité Enterprise play an essential role in ensuring success...
I'll be watching this closely as Sean Viosen is currently working with a team building an enterprise level application in Flash. At my company, I've had the opportunity to decide upon the technology to go with and decided to stick to a traditional HTML/CSS UI. You can call it chickening out/prudence or just simply a measure of the paucity of good Flash Developers (I don't want to be the only developer on an Enterprise level application!!) I sure do hope Sean blogs about the progress of his company. I would certainly like to know...
Don Park's Daily Habit: Open Source Java Projects
I visit Carlos E. Perez's Manageability blog about once a week because he occasionally posts useful list of open source Java projects along with terse yet revealing comments. I thought it might be useful to list the lists.
Carlos is a bit heavy on the Java cheerleading, but these gems are worth the visit.
...The I.B.M.-Cisco collaboration, analysts say, is a step toward reducing some of those [IT] costs by introducing technology that can automate the detection, correction and prevention of problems in technically diverse computer systems.
Looks like the commoditization of IT as suggested by Nicholas Carr is becoming a reality...
E M E R G I C . o r g: SAP's NetWeaver
News.com has an interview with SAP's rising star and possible future CEO, Shai Agassi, who talks about NetWeaver as being the future platform:
I think NetWeaver is our next foundation--just like three-tier client server was our foundation 10 years ago. NetWeaver is our foundation for the next 10 years.One of the things we're doing this time is we're bringing in our technology platform, which is sort of our secret sauce for how the applications are so robust and scalable. But we're opening up the platform so that people can build with it, including other players in the industry, such as integrators or developers.
What's new is we're starting to see the emergence of very few players that have all the integration facets in one platform. It's almost like the car industry. We go from the thousands of players to very, very few--five or six--that can actually put in one platform, fully pre-integrated. And that is a very big change, because when you get to a complete solution, you move from early adopters to people who like to dabble and build to the Main Street--the people who have to have it. And we look at five to 10 times growth in any market when that happens.That means that instead of seeing ERP, CRM, SCM (supply chain management), PLM (product lifecycle management), HR (human resources) and you name it--all these buzzwords in the application space, shipping as separate entities--you will see a collection of services--in the vicinity of tens of thousands of services.
For the techies, this creates a whole new wave of innovation. They can build on a whole new platform. The CEOs are excited for a very
simple reason. It changes the total cost-of-ownership equation. Integration has become the highest cost of IT in most of the companies you see today in any industry. If you can find the formula that actually reduced the cost of operation through preintegration of these layers, then you save a lot in operational costs that you can then invest back into innovation.A lot of people talked about the improvements in supply chain--cutting four of five days out of a 16-day process. But you look at innovation in product definition and product design, and you may actually cut three to six months out of a 12-month cycle. The impact on a company is significantly bigger.
We're moving now into a well-defined process that allows me to do it in a predictable and sustainable way across my businesses, across the world--from the design to the launch of a product, from recruiting people to a postmortem on projects, from premerger deal rooms to a postmerger reorganization. There are all these processes that we've never done before.
O'Reilly Network Articles: Qualities of a Good Middle-Tier Architecture
IT spends a considerable sum of dollars in creating company-wide frameworks as part of building their business applications. This is especially true for typed languages like C++, Java, and C#. The core of this spending goes towards coming up with an architecture for the middle tier. How does one know if the resulting architecture will serve the needs? This article examines the qualities of a good middle-tier architecture and answers how the well known middle-tier architectures that are in vogue today stack up against this analysis. The middle-tier architectures analyzed include stored procedures, SOA, EJBs, COM+, and SQLJ.
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ColdFusion Components, or CFCs, are a new construct in ColdFusion MX that allow you to move from totally procedural development to a more object-oriented approach. Because this represents a new paradigm for many ColdFusion developers, Robert Brooks-Bilson, author of Programming ColdFusion, 2nd Edition, has assembled a list of tips to keep in mind when developing with CFCs.
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A look at the significant enhancements to the basic capabilities of the Workshop IDE.
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This article talks about building scalable interfaces for Content Management Systems, but most of what is said here is true for almost all enterprise class applications...
McDonald's planned to spend $1 billion over five years to tie all its operations in to a real-time digital network. Eventually, executives in company headquarters would have been able to see how soda dispensers and frying machines in every store were performing, at any moment. After just two years, though, the fast food giant threw in the towel…
The Always On Network with the help of KPMG has come out with its list of top 100 private companies
Interesting list.
In the quest to provide value-adds, IT vendors have been quite guilty of creating complex systems. This article urges vendors to makes sure that they understand the market and keep innovating…
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...A vendor's relevance also rests on easy installation and minimal maintenance; the best products become a simple platform rather than a complex solution.
This is another loss to Microsoft, as the Brazilian Government has decided to migrate to Linux. While Microsoft has been trying to bribe its way through to NPO and Government Offices, things are not going as planned. First it was Munich and now Brazil. Looks like the SCO affair is actually helping Linux and not doing it any harm...
This was an expected development. While the combined strength of Oracle and PeopleSoft would have been able to give SAP a run for its money, it still remains to be seen what the PeopleSoft - J. D. Edwards merger might bring into this uncertain scenario.
Meanwhile SAP seems to be making the most of this uncertainty by trying to woo both PeopleSoft and J.D. Edward customers...
Well, once this is M&A season is over, we will be seeing a far different Enterprise Application scenario. Wonder who will come out the winner?
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