Michael Krigsman searches for ROI in SOA.

(See part 1 here)

Does SMB need SOA (see Joe McKendrick).

A Patch Tuesday knocked Skype out (see TechCrunch).

See Tom Foremski about the value of journalism in the ages of meme tracker.

codesqueeze blogs about 101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed (seen trough Michael Krigsman).

Just a suggestion for 3 more ways.

Michael Krigsman blogs about Brian Sommers list of 10 reasons an implementation team destroy IT projects.

 


Will Microsoft Office survive Google Docs, Zoho, OpenOffice etc. (see Dan Farber)?

Of course (see picture above).

(More Star Trek related cartoons can be found here and here)

Nicholas Carr asks whether those big ERP systems have a future.
Who knows. But until they'll go away someone has to sell them.

Joe McKendrick asks How do we really know when SOA ‘fails’?

Whether SOA or no SOA. Do we really want to know it?

Don't worry about the SQL injection attacks against the UNO (see Slashdot). They know what to do.

Linus Torvalds does appesement in the Microsoft vs. Linux war (see Slashdot).
The Linux Foundation calls for respect for Microsoft (see Slashdot again).
SCO seems to loose the lawsuit (see Dan Farber).

Hopefully we'll have something to blog about tomorrow.

Todays post is not really related to an actual blog post.

It's inspired from Big iron and the failure of Enterprise 2.0 from Michael Krigsman.

Michael Krigsman blogs about the main reasons of IT project failure. Almost always poor management.
I don't get this as the solution is so easy.

Mr. Schmidt predicts how Web 3.0 will be (see Nicholas Carr).

See Dan Farber about a study about microblogging.

See TechCrunch or Larry Dignan

Dana Gardner is not too crazy about Microsofts SOA approach.
(See also Joe McKendrick about the different approaches)

Dan Farber was on the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 07 and posts about it.
It seems that in the future social networks are woven into our life.

Joe McKendrick speculates "Will SOA still be ‘SOA’ five years from now?"

Who knows. But certainly there will come a time when creating a new architecture is easier than finding a new acronym for it.

Another patent in the DNA realm (see Slashdot).
Fortunately only for making music.