IBM method for SOA'ing yourself
in any case, with IBM's new partnership with Zend, it would be interesting to find out if IBM would ever be offering these assessment services to small businesses, and if they might pitch the Zend Core (including PHP) as an SOA platform. I, of course, think it's possible, but un-proven. and will hopefully move it into the "proven" column for my own sake, and it wouldn't hurt Zend and/or IBM to follow my lead! ;) man, that would be sweet.
however, I would hope that Zend and/or IBM is as open to an SOA platform that uses MySQL as opposed to the Cloudscape database in Zend Core. don't get me wrong, I think Cloudscape is a great project and I really like that IBM is promoting it. I just have a soft spot for MySQL.</div>
repeat article?
in any case, if I didn't already say so, I'd like to change the label from "The Killer...App" to "A Killer...App." I'm with Bezos when he says that we are only just seeing the beginning of these kinds of substantial new software programs that utilize the internet for base functionality and expand upon that base functionality for their app, which can be utilized in turn.
what I'm interested in finding out is what kind of platforms that killer app runs on. I can imagine that there is a case for a similar business that would be based on a LAMP stack and could thereby keep costs lower, and thereby offer similar or better services at a lower price.
also, I'm pretty sure I need to figure out a way to run said business while playing video games all day.</div>
visa does a lot of transactions
when I first started reading, I thought it would be insane if those thousands of transactions per second were web services transactions, because those would be some pretty fat message stacks and I wouldn't even want to imagine the infrastructure required to keep them going at that pace.
in any case, the dispute-resolution scenario seems very conducive to a web services approach. and it made me think of the WS standards in a different perspective - outsourcing. essentially, Visa, member banks, and everyone else that uses the various WS standards is outsourcing the development of their internet-capable communication infrastructure.
I thought of it this way...
without WS standards, if Visa were to accomplish the same thing, they would need to spend time and money developing a method by which all of their member banks could communicate, via the internet, to their backend system for the dispute-resolution process. however, with WS standards, they can settle on the publicly-available HTTP, SOAP, REST, FTP, etc standards.
the article did not go so far as to say whether or not they were using things like BPEL4WS to model/manage the business processes involved in the entire procedure of dispute-resolution, but if they do, then that is yet another methodoly/platform that they did not have to develop in-house.
obviously, for those companies that pay to help develop these standards, it's not entirely free. however, it does help the standards-developers stay focused on their standards, rather than having to worry about this or that implementation of the standard.
that is all for now, though I'm still reading a few more articles, so another post may yet happen.</div>
Mark Cuban on Grokster
the mass of sites, comments, blog links, etc. that crop around these issues are making me start to think that the old "people are stupid" argument is weakening.
digg adds blogging features
so my blog will now basically be a luke-filtered digg site.
New to digg today: the ability to digg stories to your blog. Choose a story that you wish to blog, then click "blog". digg will instantly post that story to your website. If you don�t like the way a story is worded, you also have the ability to rewrite your blog post. Supported blogs: Typepad, Live Journal, Blogger, Moveable Type, and WordPress. (note: you must be a registered user to see these features)
