Johannes Ernst on April 21st, 2009

…or so it seems. The Kantara Initiative launched yesterday. It describes its goals as: Bridging and harmonizing the identity community with actions that will help ensure secure, identity-based, online interactions while preventing misuse of personal information so that networks will become privacy protecting and more natively trustworthy environments. Sounds like Identity Commons? Or the Liberty [...]

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Johannes Ernst on April 8th, 2009

Given that Burton’s clients are mostly enterprises, I wonder how this will end. One of the most prominent headline-grabbers of the upcoming Catalyst conference is an entire track whose pitch reads as follows: Track: SOA Is Dead; Long Live Services Many service oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives have stalled or failed. And prospects for SOA look [...]

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Johannes Ernst on April 3rd, 2009

This is an actual screen shot from my MacBook Pro’s Activity Monitor today.

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