We see more and more attention on relations between SOA and other parts of IT, with important questions like the one raised in the following blog post: http://www.jpmorgenthal.com/morgenthal/?p=103. Relations between SOA and BPM is like relations between bass guitar and drums. They live separately and have their own rules, but they can produce great music [...]
Often people ask me why I don’t like the use of DNA and other biological markers as identities. My answer can be expressed in two points: Biometric data cannot be repudiated. If your biometrics are compromised you cannot change them like you can do when your personal certificate (or password) is compromised. Biometric data are [...]
Here is an interesting point of view on security business today from an IBM Security Strategist: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/081709-8-dirty-secrets-of-the.html Among the eight points some are tightly related to enterprise strategy and enterprise architecture. Points 2, 6 and 7 focus on external concerns, regulations and security product vendors, but others may be summarized like this: what do I [...]
Here is a very good post of security guru Bruce Schneier on how we as individuals are good at evaluating risks: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/risk_intuition.html. We often hear that people do not follow rules because they do not understand risks and Schneier shows us that the error is to forget that we do not live in a world [...]
[Part 1] Here are some points to focus on to try to get out of the immaturity model. Some are obvious. Some may sound like weird ideas. But do not underestimate culture: obvious points may not be obvious for everyone and weird things may well be weird only for those who see them for the [...]
“IT is a young discipline” syndrome For as long as I have worked in IT I have heard this dogmatic explanation. It is used for all sorts of issues ranging from hardware failures to heavily bugged software including huge and astonishingly complex IT solutions without strong relations with business problems. Each time, the maturity idea [...]
This is just a quick note about a dreadful news: IT business is running short of trigrams. Trigrams are those nasty special words made of the three capital letters of some difficult to understand expression we traditionally use to attract interests in a new Graal. Running short of such beasts is a nightmar because without [...]
Lately I re-read a list of errors about computers [fr+en] (sorry for English readers, items are in English but comments are in French) found in movies. It’s not exactly the first time I’ve read such a list and it’s always amusing to see a collection of problems movie makers do about our domain, but this [...]
Here and everywhere Here in France we have to face a very dangerous bill [fr] that may break some fundamental principles of the internet. It is a quick and dirty answer to those who claim that exchanging files on the net would lead (and in fact would have led) to big losses for music and [...]
In the open source community we see very efficient results emerging from non organized groups of people acting individually. Companies should fear this mechanism because it cannot be used inside organized entities. There are economical explanations of this for example in this book from Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations [...]
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