Big Blue Says IBM PureSystems Is Private Cloud in a Box. Hmmm…

Big Blue is poking their head out of the Twilight Zone

The Impact of a Googless JavaOne

The Jason Bloomberg quote on IBM’s relationship to Sun and Java could almost be applied to what many of us hope happens today with Oracle, Google, and Java.

RIP Enterprise Software?

Today, in spite of a full decade of vendors paying lip service to the benefits of SOA. Customers are more than unhappy with enterprise software. They’re pissed. And they’re not going to take it any more.

ماذا تفعل إذا تم إلغاء مبادرة البنية الموجهة للخدمات الخاصة بك

Arabic translation of “What To Do When your SOA Initiative Gets Cancelled“

هل هناك مستقبل للتطبيقات البرمجية المؤسسية

هل هناك مستقبل للتطبيقات البرمجية المؤسسية ترجمة: وائل الخواص – 7 ديسمبر 2009 يمكنك قراءة المقال من خلال هذا الرابط غالبا ما يتبادر الحديث ضمناً عن دور ومستقبل التطبيقات البرمجية المؤسسية عند الحديث عن البنية القائمة على الخدمات (SOA). ففى الواقع فإن زاب ثينك (ZapThink) تتحدث منذ …

What To Do When your SOA Initiative Gets Cancelled

We at ZapThink are an idealistic and optimistic bunch. We tend to see the positive side of well thought-out IT initiatives and believe that when rational planning meets incremental expenditure that provides short-term returns, all is well and companies can sail smoothly ahead. However, we realize that is not the …

The Dissolution of the Rich Internet Application (RIA) Market

Traditional market research focuses on the size and growth of well-defined market segments. As vendors enter and compete in those markets, customers participate by purchasing products and services within those segments, and market research seeks to establish the patterns of such transactions in order to predict the future trends for …

Open Group releases SOA adoption and governance standards

Jason Bloomberg, managing partner at analysis firm ZapThink, added, “The Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model was in large part contributed by IBM and includes some IBM-centric content, but The Open Group has done a good job evolving it to be a useful, vendor-neutral tool for helping organizations measure their architectural maturity.”

Many SOA maturity models come from software vendors and are little more than software sales tools, said Bloomberg. “ZapThink has found the ones from consulting organizations to be better aligned with enterprise needs.”

Read more at: SD Times

Preventing the Demise of the IT Department

ZapThink has long championed the role of Information Technology (IT) and the information technologists that turn IT resources into capabilities. However, we are especially champions of the users of IT, notably the business. After all, if it weren’t for business users, there would be little funding and relevance for IT. …

Evolution of the Rich Internet Application Market

As the Internet continues to penetrate every aspect of our lives, both business and personal, the distinction between “Internet application” and “application” increasingly fades from view. Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) operate in the sweet spot among richness of Internet capability, richness of user interactivity, and richness of client-side computing capability. RIAs act as Service consumers as part of Service-Oriented Architecture implementations and enable Enterprise Mashups.

Since ZapThink first covered the space in 2002, the RIA market has matured considerably, establishing two core submarkets: RIA environments and RIA components. Adobe Systems emerging as a leader in the RIA environments submarket with their Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and Flex products. Microsoft is a strong contender with their newer Silverlight technology. Open source vendors have emerged as significant players, and form a large portion of the RIA components submarket.

While the RIA market should continue to grow for the next few years, it will most likely merge with other markets long term and be indifferentiable from a market sizing perspective as the RIA category increasingly overlaps with other existing desktop and Internet application categories.