The IT Strategy Letter
A digest of Doug Kaye's weblogs
for the week ending October 28, 2002
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Web Services Strategies |
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Web Services Strategies
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The Web Services Technology Pipeline. I've posted a new essay explaining how the technologies of web services will be delivered by different categories of vendors over the technologies' lifetimes. Technologies comes out the end of the pipeline in a form that's more standardized, more reliable and less expensive than when they went in.
As you consider the many options for the deployment
of your web-services projects, be aware that all of the technologies
are working their way through the pipeline. If you need bleeding-edge
(pre-standard) technology, you should be looking at the earlier
stages, whereas those whose requirements are less demanding
can avail themselves of later-stage (and less expensive) options.
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Software as Services? What Your Mother Didn't Tell You About This Aspect of Web Services. According to Dan Muse of Internetnews.com, IDC reports, "...that while early adopters are successfully integrating heterogeneous systems in multiple locations, the next phase for Web services--delivering software as services--is at least a decade away." The $1,500 report by IDC's Rikki Kirzner claims that "businesses and users ultimately will have to be willing to make fundamental changes in the way they view software assets and intellectual property rights before vendors can deliver on the promises they are all making regarding the use of components as a key element of Web services. Semantics, standards, security, and privacy issues will present major stumbling blocks to later stages of Web services implementation."
All of that may be true. But ten years? Hard to imagine anyone willing to wait that long. I predict we'll see software-as-service in less than half that time, and in a big way.
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Role of Web-Services Networks. In this particularly good
interview, InfoWorld's Steve Gillmor and Mark Jones speak with
Craig Donato (president and CEO) and John McDowall (CTO) at Grand
Central Communications. Intelligent questions and honest answers
that explain the strengths and weaknesses of WSNs, and also provide
perspective on the state-of-the-art in web services as a whole.
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Understanding the Real Costs of Integration. In another excellent ZapFlash, Ronald Schmelzer and Jason Bloomberg take a stab at explaining what I've come to believe may be the most important issue surrounding web services. "...blindly applying Web Services to integration is a mistake...just because a new technology has promise doesn't guarantee that it will be applied correctly." They go on to ask, "Are implementations of Web Services simply 'old wine in new bottles,' with interfaces every bit as brittle and tightly-coupled as in the past, or are they really implementing Service-Oriented Integration among Services at many levels of granularity?"
It's been my experience to date, when helping clients develop their web-services strategies, that the greatest obstacle is getting developers and architects to truly understand what loose coupling is all about. It's elusive, but an absolutely critical concept.
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Digital Identity Redux. Nate Torkington reports from the Digital Identity World conference. "There are no clear signs that Digital Identity is anything but hot air."
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Web Hosting Strategies
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Will
Web Services Change Web Hosting? The high-end web-hosting
business is cooling off, but web services are on fire. What's
going to happen when they meet? I recently spoke to some of the
movers and shakers of the web-hosting world, and asked them how
they were anticipating the arrival of web services. [My October
column for The Web Host Industry
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The WHIR Digest. The team over at The Web Host Industry Review have launched a monthly magazine that's delivered as a PDF. The premiere issue is a good lookin' 15-pager with the following articles:
Posted Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:31:35 PM |
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Doug's Appearances
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Web Services, Trick or Treat? Web-hosting vendor Conxion is sponsoring Web Services, Trick or Treat: Don't Let the Missing Pieces Scare You on Tuesday, October 29, at Zibibbo restaurant in Palo Alto, CA. On the panel:
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Next-Generation Web and Application Hosting: Distinguishing Hype from Reality. Thursday, November 07, 2002, 11:15am - 12:15pm, ISP Con, McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, California. IT outsourcing is shaping up to be the proving ground for next-generation Web and application hosting services. In conjunction with Tier 1 Research, technology advisory firm RampRate has developed the Service Provider Intelligence (SPY) Index, a proprietary measurement tool that weighs more than 35 business factors associated with Internet and hosting services. This session will offer an overview of the SPY Index and will discuss the essential criteria that clients and vendors will consider to make data-driven purchasing decisions today and tomorrow.
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