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There were 10 blog postings during May (2007):
Has Microsoft got BPM? Part II
Back at the beginning of March I asked has Microsoft got BPM?. At that time I hadn't had the opportunity to get a briefing from Microsoft on its recent BPM moves, but now I have.
So—has Microsoft got BPM? Yes and no.
Microsoft is not about to...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 2nd May '07
Policy interoperability - a step in the right direction
At the end of last week a webMethods' press release popped into my inbox highlighting a recent demonstration of interoperability between the company's UDDI-based registry (acquired with Infravio), HP's Systinet registry and one of Layer 7...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 3rd May '07
Sun's OpenID programme: definitely something to watch
Sun yesterday announced:
a new initiative around support for OpenID, a decentralized, web-friendly single sign-on mechanism that allows consumers to reuse a single login across different websites, tackling the login explosion problem. OpenID is...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 8th May '07
Microsoft drops virtualisation features
Yesterday, the General Manager of Microsoft's virtualization strategy Mike Neil used his blog to announce that a number of features would be missing from the initial release of Windows Server Virtualization (aka Viridian):
Live migration of virtual...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 11th May '07
SAP plugs a significant gap - acquires MaXware
Well, better late than never. SAP today announced the acquisition of privately-held MaXware, a supplier of identity management infrastructure. Back in June 2005, I discussed SAP Venture's (its VC arm) investment in another identity management...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 15th May '07
Real-world Enterprise Architecture part I: journey vs destination
I was talking to Donna Burbank, Director of Enterprise Modelling and Architecture Solutions at Embarcadero a few days ago—she was briefing me about the company's new EA/Studio product. We digressed a fair bit along the way, particularly...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 15th May '07
Real-world Enterprise Architecture part II: conversation, federation, road trips and tools
In my previous post I explained how in order to get real value out of Enterprise Architecture (EA) work, it's critical to focus not only on the outputs of EA work, but also on the process/practice of EA and, moreover, that the process/practice has...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 16th May '07
Microsoft server and tools is now part of the business division
The ever-vigilant Redmond watcher Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet reports that Microsoft's Server and Tools unit (but not the P&L—Microsoft will still report server and tools financials), which is responsible for Microsoft Windows Server, SQL...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 21st May '07
Realising the identity metasystem
It's perhaps unsurprising, given all the brouhaha surrounding Microsoft's claims that open source software infringes on 235 of its patents (which incidentally I take to be largely 'sabre rattling' from Redmond in the face of the implications of the...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 29th May '07
Swimming against the tide
Nick Malik poses an interesting question here—are we making things difficult for ourselves by calling Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Architecture? His point is (if I've got it right) that architecture work is kind of crunchy, focusing on...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 30th May '07