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The future of enterprise data in a radically open and Web-based world | Hinchcliffe
Dion Hinchcliffe has posted a lengthy discussion on the future of Open Data and the Open Web. He identifies three Open Web methods for accessing and working with Open Data; WOA, API's and Linked Data. These methods are discussed in the context of SOA and the re-engineering of enterprise business systems. Great stuff. Dion also provides an excellent chart describing his vision of how these things fit together.
Excerpt: "Open data holds up the promise of instant connectivity between arbitrary numbers of ad hoc partners while at the same time reducing integration costs, improving transparency, harnessing external innovation, and even (perhaps especially) creating entirely new and significant business models. I sometimes refer to these as “open supply chains“, and the term is highly descriptive when it comes to the potential for open data models to make cloud computing safe and interoperable, help journalists to do their jobs better, or create multi-million dollar new lines of business, such as Amazon’s well-known Web Services division."
A Simpler Approach To SOA -- Web-Oriented Architecture -- InformationWeek
"Web-oriented architectures are easier to implement and offer a similar flexibility to SOA."
Lengthy discussion concerning the WOA approach for the quick implementation of Web Application and Data bound services. Think the Comcast OpenSTack model :)
Time to Pounce: Stephane Rodriguez Responds | Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment? | TalkBack on ZDNet
Links to two posts from Stephane Rodriquez.
The Time to Pounce Has Come : Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment? | TalkBack on ZDNet
ge response to Joe McKendrick's SOA article.
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I agree with DonnieBoy. Microsoft will try to leverage their MSOffice monopoly to dominate the newly emerging marketplace of Web-Stack and Cloud Computing solutions. I also believe that for Microsoft, the final pieces of this puzzle fell into place on March 29th, 2008 with ISO approval of the MSOffice-OOXML document format.
For most businesses, Microsoft is the "client" in "client/server". The great transition from client/server to client/ Web-Stack /server has been slow because Microsoft was uncertain as to how they could control this transition. Some light was shed on the nature of this "uncertainty" when the Combs vs. Microsoft antitrust case brought forth a 1998 eMail from Chairman Bill to the MSOffice development team. The issue for the good Chairman was that of controlling the formats and protocols used to connect MSOffice to a Web centric world. MSOffice support for Open Web formats and protocols like (X)HTML, CSS, and WebDAV were out of the question. Microsoft needed to figure out how pull off this transition with proprietary formats and protocols. And avoid the wrath of antitrust in the process!
Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment? | Joe McKendrick TalkBack on ZDNet
Extesnive reply to Joe McKendrik's article about Microsoft and SOA.
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I agree with DonnieBoy. Microsoft will try to leverage their MSOffice monopoly to dominate the newly emerging marketplace of Web-Stack and Cloud Computing solutions. I also believe that for Microsoft, the final pieces of this puzzle fell into place on March 29th, 2008 with ISO approval of the MSOffice-OOXML document format.
The end of the web as we know it | Adobe - Developer Center : Duane Nickull
Excellent whitepaper from Duane.
- Humm. Good idea Duane! I'm thinking why it is that i don't have a Wikipedia resource center for my personal information. Instead i have Diigo, Facebook and Flickr. - garyedwards on 2008-05-08
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The web as we
knew it in 1995 has already largely died. Out of the ashes has arisen a second
incarnation and we are currently on the verge of a new reality, Web 2.0. While
there is no one definition, Web 2.0 is perhaps best described as the migration
to the web as a platform spanning all connected devices, coupled with a
specific set of patterns. Web 2.0 has many components, but it is generally
associated with a class of web applications that harness the intelligence,
data, and actions of their users to create value (iconic Web 2.0 applications
include Flickr, YouTube, and Amazon). While many are looking to Web 2.0 to
solve the problems of yesteryear, the mass migration is creating a new set of
problems that must be addressed.
This article
is divided into three parts: an analysis of the web today, an analysis of what
has already died or is dying, and a look forward at aspects of Web 2.0 that are
creating problems and will likely die in the next five years.
Microsoft SOA Products & Investments: Oslo
SOA platform that extends across client, server and cloud. Scary stuff that preceeded the Live Mesh - Silverlight announcement at Web 2.0 (2008)
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- Deliver a world class SOA platform across client, server, and cloud. Microsoft has been a thought leader in Web services and SOA technologies since the very beginning and has delivered industry leading technologies such as the Windows Communication Foundation and BizTalk Server.
- Deliver a world class and mainstream modeling platform that helps the roles of IT collaborate and enables better integration between IT and the business. The modeling platform enables higher level descriptions, so called declarative descriptions, of the application.
Microsoft is investing some of the top engineering talent at the company to make two key investments:
Component Content Management in Practice - Meeting the Demands of the Most Complex Content Applications | Gilbane Group White Papers
Gilbane white paper on Content Management Systems. Covers evolution of CMS from paper to digital to web.
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Executive Summary
As the market for content management technology continues to grow, so too do the ways in which organizations seek to use content management. What began as a market focused on web content management has grown to include document management, digital asset management, and records management. What has emerged along with this growth is a desire by vendors to provide a broad, enterprise-class platform of content management technology that can handle all kinds of content.
Live Mesh: Windows Becomes the Web | Microsoft Watch - Web Services & Browser -
Joe Wilcox takes on MS "Live Mesh" in a series of articles. Clearly he gets it but one has to wonder about the rest of the techno crowd.
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simply: Microsoft is launching a synchronization platform that the company claims is technology-agnostic. That absolutely is not true. Live Mesh is Microsoft's attempt to turn operating system and proprietary services platforms into hubs that replace the Web. It's the most anti-Web 2.0 technology yet released by any company. Microsoft is building a services-based operating system that transcends and extends Windows and also the function of Web browsers. It's bold, brilliant and downright scary.
Microsoft has identified the right problem, synchronization, but applied a self-serving solution.
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The services platform doesn't seek to keep the Web as the hub, but replace it with something else. The white paper is wonderfully misleading, by implying that Microsoft supports the Web as the hub. Live Mesh is the hub.
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Web 2.0 Stovepipe System: Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business | The Semantic Web | ZDNet.com
podcast with Sir Tim discusses the "linked Data Project" and the Semantic Web contrast to Web 2.0 Social Stovepipe Systems
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“Web 2.0 is a stovepipe system. It’s a set of stovepipes where each site has got its data and it’s not sharing it. What people are sometimes calling a Web 3.0 vision where you’ve got lots of different data out there on the Web and you’ve got lots of different applications, but they’re independent. A given application can use different data. An application can run on a desktop or in my browser, it’s my agent. It can access all the data, which I can use and everything’s much more seamless and much more powerful because you get this integration. The same application has access to data from all over the place.”
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There you go. The key "editors" today are MSOffice and OpenOffice, neither of which supports advanced W3C formats. Especially XHTML-CSS.
XHTML-CSS is a highly interoperable XML based structuring that effectively separates content and presentation layers. In particular, CSS is a highly portable "presentation" layer. Especially when compared to the wholly application speciifc "presentation" layers in MSOffice XML and OpenOffice OpenDocument XML.
The key is that MSOffice and OpenOffice are powerful desktop "editors" of much of the world's business rich compound documents. With the recent ISO approval of MSOffice XML, billlions of these business process rich "client/server" documents will now become Web Ready and useful to the emerging "client/Web-Stack/server models common to SOA, WOA and Cloud Computing initiatives.
The December 2007 MSOffice SDK contained an important conversion component for the easy conversion of MSOffice XML <> XAML. "fixed/flow". XAML is part of the proprietary WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) set of technologies which inlcude XAML, Silverlight, Smart Tags and LINQ.
The proprietary WPF technologies are alternatives for W3C XHTML-CSS, CDF, SVG, XForms, RDF and SparQL.
Neither desktop "editors" produce advanced W3C XHTML-CSS, SVG, Xforms, RDF, SparQL ready docuemtns. OpenOffice OpenDocument is capable of producing application specific supersets of W3C technologies, but does not fully implement interoperable instances. MSOffice is of course in a world owned entirely by Microsoft and the Microsoft Web-Stack.
No surpirses there. A W3C compliant OpenOffice would not doubt change the world. But then, so would a W3C compliant plug-in for MSSOffice!!!!!! Hello WikiWORED!
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Web 2.0 Silos! Sir Tim Berners-Lee addresses WWW2008 in Beijing | The Semantic Web | ZDNet.com
Perpetuating current data silos by continuing to “give your data to a site” was, Berners-Lee asserted, “not ideal.” He argued instead for wider adoption of new or existing Web specifications such as OAuth and RDFAuth, enabling the individual to store data relevant to themselves wherever they felt fit, and assemble it at will within one or more Web and local applications of their choosing at the point of need.
“Acquaintance-based social networks,” Berners-Lee suggested, were “the tip of the iceberg,” with his notion of the emerging Giant Global Graph “exist[ing] above the Web” and creating opportunities for far richer functional and role-based interconnections.
Turning to consideration of the Web itself, Berners-Lee remarked that
“Openness tends to be an inexorable movement through time”
He juxtaposed the ‘Web Application Platform’ with proprietary solutions to parts of the problem such as Flash, AIR and Silverlight. This Web Application Platform, he argued, relies upon W3C specifications and other open standards, and it is increasingly moving toward specifications that are small, modular, and interoperable.
Moving toward his conclusion, Berners-Lee reiterated the importance of Linked Data again saying
“Linked Open Data is the Web done as it should be.”
Returning to his earlier discussion of modularity, he suggested that existing specifications such as those for JavaScript be reworked, carving JavaScript’s functionality up into a series of modular packages. Each of those packages should then be assigned a URI, and the Semantic Web should be used to describe the packages, their dependencies, and their interrelationships.
Used in conjunction with the resulting applications, Linked Data would provide,
“elements of an ability to do things [with data] that cross application boundaries.”
Turning to Q&A, Berners-Lee was first asked to comment on the concept of ‘Web 2.0′, which he did;
“Web 2.0 sites are silos.”
“A centralised solution cannot compete with a decentralised one in the long
Meshing the desktop into the cloud | Software as Services | ZDNet.com
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Live Mesh brings that to life, as product director Mike Zintel explains on the brand new Live Mesh blog:
“[It] blend[s] the web, Windows and other computing endpoints in a way that preserves the ‘it just works’ feel of the web with seamless integration into my common workflows. The coolest thing about Live Mesh is how it smashes the abrupt mental switch that I have to make today as I move between being ‘on the web’ and ‘in an application’.”
At first glance, that may seem a perfectly reasonable and innocuous statement — and indeed it is, if you take a Web-centric view of the world — but coming out of Microsoft, it’s dynamite. Instead of seeing the Web as an extension of the desktop, it includes the desktop as part of the continuum of the Web. Where then does the application sit? Not on the desktop, or on any identifiable server machine, but simply in the mesh. In other words, it becomes a service, capable of running anywhere in the cloud, including on the desktop.
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“The core philosophy is to make it easy to manage information in a world where people have multiple computing experiences (i.e. PCs and applications, web sites, phones, video games, music and video devices) that they use in the context of different communities (i.e. myself, family, work, organizations) …”
“At the core of Mesh is [the] concept of a customer’s mesh, or collection of devices, applications and data that an individual owns or regularly uses.
The Mesh lives but the cloud Office is vaporous | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com
I don't think Dan Farber gets it. ISO approval of MSOffice-OOXML establishes MSOffice as a standards compliant web/cloud/WOA "editor" for client/Web-Stack/server systems. No need to try to squeeze all tha tcomplexity into a browser. Just use the MSOffice SDK OOXML <> XAML conversion component to convert rich, business process loaded, documents to a web ready format. OH my, XAML is proprietary and IE-8 does not support XHTML2, CSS3, SVG, XForms, RDF, SPARQL, SWF, PDF or JavaScript. Bummer. ISO has done the unthinkable and Microsoft can now break the web without worry of anti trust retribution. They are after all, simply implementing an open standard.
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Office Live will bring Office to the web, and the web to Office. We will deliver new and expanded productivity experiences that build upon the device mesh vision to extend productivity scenarios seamlessly across the PC, the web, and mobile devices. Individuals will seamlessly enjoy the benefits of each - the rich, dynamic editing of the PC, the mobility of the phone, and the work-anywhere ubiquity of the web. Office Live will also extend the PC-based Office into the social mesh, expanding the classic notion of "personal productivity" into the realm of the "inter-personal" through the linking, sharing and tagging of documents. Individuals will have a productivity centric web presence where they can work and productively interact with others. This broadly extended vision of Office is being realized today through Office Mobile and Office Live Workspace on the web, augmented by SharePoint, Exchange, and OCS for the connected enterprise.
Meshing the desktop into the cloud | Software as Services | Phil Wainewright ZDNet.com
At the Web 2.0 Expo Microsoft introduced "Live Mesh", integrating the MSOffice desktop with the Web, as an integral part of the Cloud. Here we go. The race to take the open web is on, and Microsoft is off to a stunning start.
- Mesh is Microspeak for the Microsoft owned "Web"! Keep a close eye on the advanced formats and protocols and API access to infrastructure services. Ther ewill be two classes available. Web 1.0 formats and protocols standardized by the W3C and ISO. And higher level, "complex" formats and protocols proprietary to Microsoft. The MS Web-Stack, Live-Mesh, and IEcan speak both low and high, but the MSOffice desktop speaks only high level OOXML <> XAML-Silverlight-Smart Tags-LINQ - garyedwards on 2008-04-23
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Instead of seeing the Web as an extension of the desktop, it includes the desktop as part of the continuum of the Web. Where then does the application sit? Not on the desktop, or on any identifiable server machine, but simply in the mesh. In other words, it becomes a service, capable of running anywhere in the cloud, including on the desktop.
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“haven’t we seen some of this before? A service which offers both synchronization and replication? Remember Lotus Notes and Groove? … Ray Ozzie was the creative force behind Notes, Groove, and now, Live Mesh.”
The problem with Forrester’s $4.6 billion prediction | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com
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Collaboration is about problem solving in the flow of business processes - or at least it should be. That’s where cost sits and where all the automation in the world will not rescue the business manager. Enterprise 2.0 doesn’t solve problems per se but it may serve to expose them. The question then comes, how does business go about solving the problems it has discovered? In many cases, this comes down to one of several things.
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Forrester has missed a trick. It has fallen into the evolutionary trap of assuming that existing processes will accommodate the new world of socially networked operations. If anything, the adoption of these technology solutions will raise the specter of how business process designed to release value is articulated through software. That alone could kill off many an otherwise worthy project as business managers stop to rethink what they need to build in order to solve the real problems of the day. Collaboration will go some distance, but without a fast track way of implementing BRP, it will represent a lot of wasted effort.
‘Enough with WOA, stick to SOA,’ say IT architects - I say drop WOA and SOA | Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com
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So, true, WOA, isn’t an architecture, it’s a webby style of apps and integration, of mashups and open APIs, of using REST and RIA clients, all from a variety of Internet sources. It’s integration as a service, too. These can all be composited, accessed and managed by an enterprise’s internal SOA, or not. The services can come from a cloud, public or private. Forrester says the growth curve for Enterprise 2.0 is steep, but I think it will be even steeper.
These webby assets could just as well come together as portals, standalone Web apps, SaaS, or RIA front ends for composited ecology services that support extended enterprise processes. The point is there’s no need to wait.
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rapid ramp-up of services hybrids — of public/private clouds, services ecologies, internal and external hosting, social enterprise media tools, mashups in myriad forms, integration of services regardless of origins or types of aggregation.
You can today begin a business online and scale it without an IT department, or an on-premises datacenter. You just can.
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Open source SOA infrastructure project CXF elevated to full Apache status | Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com
The Apache CFX "Interoperability Framework" for SOA Project is ready. We really could have used CFX in the 2003 Comcast project where a Tomcat/MYSQL Web-Stack connected to many disparate blackboxes. The blackboxes were standalone "Inventory and Billing" transaction processing data centers aquired by Comcast during a five year burst of acquisitions. Of course, none of these blackboxes could talk to any other! Enter SOA with XMLHTTPRequest streams. 2002-2003. We needed CFX to scale!
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CXF is really designed for high performance, kind of like a request-response style of interaction for one way, asynchronous messaging, and things like that. But it’s really designed for taking data in from a variety of transports and message formats, such as SOAP or just raw XML. If you bring in the Apache Yoko project, we have CORBA objects coming in off the wire. It basically processes them through the system as quickly as possible with very little memory and processing overhead. We can get it to the final destination of where that data is supposed to be, whether it’s off to another service or a user-developed code, whether it’s in JavaScript or JAX-WS/JAXB code.
That’s the goal of what the CXF runtime is — just get that data into the form that the service needs, no matter where it came from and what format it came from in, and do that as quickly as possible.
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Add Sticky Notethe fascinating intersection of SOA and WOA — with on-premises services and cloud-based resources (including data) supporting ecologies of extended enterprises business processes
- Funny but i never thought of SOA as somehow separate from the Web. A Web-Stack is how one connects the disparate backend data streams. New applications capable of acting on that data are written to the Web, not some aging client/server platform model. I guess others had a different view of SOA and are just now discovering the interop and exchange value of the Web. Very strange. - on 2008-04-21
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OOXML/ODF: Just One Battlefield in a Much Bigger War | Brian Proffitt Linux Today
<p>Brian figures out that the document wars are really about Cloud Computing. Big vendors IBM, Sun, Google and Microsoft are jockeyign for position in our cloud computing future. And this is why Microsoft MUSt get ISO approval of MSOffice-OOXML!</p>
<p>What Brian misses is the key to a Microsoft Cloud that can be found int he MSOffice SDK; the OOXML<>XAML conversion component. XAML, Silverlight and Smart Tags replace W3C XHTML-CSS, SVG-Flash, and RDF. Makign the MS Cloud one where Microsoft owned protocols, formats and .NET components dominate all processes. ISO approval of MSOffice-OOXML establishes MSOffice as a standards "editor", thus masking the cloud computing shift to XAML. A shift that will lock out all other Web 2.0 - Cloud providers dependent on Open Web - W3C protocols and formats!</p>
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Once in a while, a confluence of random events (or not so random, depending on your belief system) can create the ideal aha! moment. The moment of clarity when all the pieces just fall into place and you realize "that's what's going on!"
I believe I have had one of those moments. And if this thought has any basis in reality, it could mean that everything we have seen in IT is about to make a huge change.
When SOAs rule the world
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TCG Advisors envisions a new computing model for when the inter-enterprise becomes the basis of all IT infrastructure. Where
can we expect the most change?
All the action is going to be in the middle [layer] in preparation for a significant change at the top in about five years.
We are all [preparing] for a new business model: the inter-enterprise network value chain. For the inter-enterprise network
value chain, traditional business applications need to be re-architected so they can cross company boundaries. When people
look at this re-architecting, they see two huge barriers: the middleware, because our software doesn't work this way, and
the business process layer, because people don't have a lot of experience [with it]. There will be a fair amount of trial
and error before we figure this out. Even thought leaders are struggling.
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The goal has been managing information. We're shifting from managing information to
managing processes. Information is an important attribute in process management, but it's not the goal. So trying to turn
data into information is the wrong way to look at the problem. What we are trying now is to manage processes across multiple
states, where any portion of the process can be in multiple states. So you have to keep state - which is a computing idea
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Introducing Microsoft Online Services
<p>The MS Cloud has arrived!!!! Grab your ankles and kiss your ever lovin Open Web good-bye.</p>
<p>This is a video describing how Microsoft Online Services can add value to your organization. Interestingly, the software-plus-service offerings from Microsoft are being marketed as a way for corporate IT to break free; reducing systems management cost and operation overhead while leveraging existing "rich client" systems. Meaning, MSOffice is now connected to the MS Cloud.</p>
<p>The transition of legacy <i>client/server</i> systems to MS Cloud hosted <i>client/Web-Stack /server</i> systems can now begin. No doubt the recent ISO approval of MSOffice-OOXML played no small part in this announcement!</p>
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