Awhile back, IT Business Edge's Ann All sent me a piece about REST versus SOAP. I'm not sure why, probably it mentioned SOA, but quicker than you can say “service-oriented architecture” three times, I'd replied that there was no way I was...

At our CTO Edge site, Mike Vizard published a clever holiday-inspired post “Ten Technologies to be Thankful for .” I thought it was such a clever idea, I decided to steal the idea for today's Thanksgiving post.   Since those in the United...

When I first read about the SOA Manifesto, I thought it was pretty beige. I still do. After all, it was written by committee, and, with the exception of the Declaration of Independence , that seems to be the formula for creating a very proper, but

For some time now, I've followed virtualization, particularly as it pertains to data. I could see how it would create a need for data integration – but I wasn't sure how it could be used as a data integration tool. Apparently, I'm not the only one...

Some things are more confusing than they should be - like those road loops in the UK or the logic behind leap years – some things seem very simple when they're explained, yet people are constantly confused about them.   IT seems to have more...