I recently authored and article jointly with Bruno Bonati (a former director of Credit Suisse). It’s my first ! An article about how a Services Architecture approach can help to integrate banking organisations together.
Please have a look here
I have just had a jointly published article with a small, but significant journal - Architecture and Governance Magazine written togther with Bruno Bonati who was member of the executive board and head of IT and operations for Credit Suisse between 1996 and 2004.
It’s an article which provides some guidance on the application of services architectures in current banking market where consolidation and subsequent integration of businesses can determine success or failure of a merger.
With RBS embarking on this road, it is a timely and apt. There are no silver bullets, but using a services architecture approach can make this transition easier. However it needs careful planning, and a progressive architectural approach….
One of the blogs I read regularly, but never really comment on is J.P. Rangaswami. In his blog entry on Open Source, he talks about the benefits of Open Source…..
I was in a discussion with a prospect recently where I put forward the idea that open source could be used to deliver a large proportion (or even, all) of the SOA Stack. There was no indication that the customer would not ‘pay’ to receive ’support’. One of the concerns he expressed was who can ’support’ all the software components that could be used.
I emphasised that the overall ‘cost’ of opensource would be substatantially lower, and there was no indication that he took that to be ‘free’. So maybe the message is getting through that:
(1) Open Source is not ‘free’
(2) Open Source can help deliver enterprise scale applications
(3) Using Open Source you can use the ‘best of the best’ to deliver value to a customer
(4) Supporting Open Source is something that really needs to be considered seriously for enterprises using it in anger
So the question is for me - how do you scale the use of Open Source within an organisation and deliver, do knowledge transfer and then support it…..
And then there’s a question of Open Source SOA…. that’s for another day!
After much searching for blogging software and using various ones in the past I have now settled on Wordpress (www.wordpress.org).
I have previously used MoveableType (www.sixpart.com). Although I think it’s a great blogging tool, I find that it was taking too much of my time to update and maintain. Perhaps when I have more time I’ll migrate my blog to this again. Then it’s just figuring out how to migrate from one type of blogging software to another !