Upon2020 (archive)
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Burton Group: “SOA Is Dead”
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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What a Powerful Computer I have
This is an actual screen shot from my MacBook Pro’s Activity Monitor today.
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“Equal Access Principle”
Eran Hammer-Lahav blogs about an important principle behind OpenID, Yadis, OAuth and a number of related technologies that he calls the "Equal Access Principle". He says the requirements are: Support large and small providers. Any solution must work for a small hosted website as well as the world largest portal. It must be flexible enough…
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Now Microsoft is beginning to make sense …
For some years now, I’ve heard Kim Cameron and others at Microsoft talk about "how claims will change everything" in so many different presentations, and to be frank, I didn’t get it. Neither the claims, nor the change or the everything part. So this week, I came across the Microsoft Identity Software and Services Roadmap…
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OpenID: The Beginnings of “It Works!” in Practice, Not Just In Theory
A technology works in theory if you have a piece of software and you can make it do what you want it to do for the purposes of demonstrating it and letting others try it out. It works in practice if people who utterly don’t care about your technology successfully use it because it makes…