Posted in Architecture on October 29th, 2005 Comments Off
When reading Jon Udell, I am sometimes surprised by ease with which he can explain very complex topics. Like in the following article excerpt on SOA an metadata:As we weave more and better metadata into software, documents, Web sites, and file systems, the information stored in these various containers will become more available, more […]
Posted in Architecture on October 28th, 2005 Comments Off
CIO.COM on enterprise architecture:
Bill Godfrey, CIO of Dow Jones, remembers how his first enterprise architect rode into town in 1999-confident, aggressive; one could almost hear his spurs jingle-jangle. “I started by hiring a chief architect-a sheriff with the big badge and the big chair and all the PowerPoint decks that money could buy,” Godfrey recalls.”It […]
Posted in Architecture on October 27th, 2005 Comments Off
More from Irving Wladawsky-Berger:For over one hundred years, the vertically integrated firm has been the dominant model for organizing work, especially complex work, as opposed to having multiple, independent, self-employed people who contract with one another to get the same work done. The reason for this was first explained by British economist Roland Coase […]