Published on Saturday, November 11 2006
(Yes, I’m still catching up on my reading – I find I can get through about 15 magazines in a 2hr flight just skimming and pulling out what looks worthwhile).
There’s a nicely provocative one-pager in the December Dr. Dobb’s Journal: “Five Ways Vendors Gouge Customers on Integration.”
In it, Ross Mason (from the Mule project) argues that “Despite vendors’ friendly talk about their approaches to SOA, ESBs, and integration in general, their practices are often predatory . . . Vendors have been sticking it to enterprise cusomers for a long time.”
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Published on Thursday, November 9 2006
While traveling yesterday I finally caught up with the stack of industry magazines I’ve been carrying around for the last few weeks. (I find I still prefer to skim through the trade pubs in actual printed editions – if I find something interesting I just rip out the title page, knowing I can always find the full text online.)
One feature that caught my attention was a piece in Information Week titled Under Construction. 
Could have been called “currently in Beta” of course, to be more in line with the Web 2.0 meme,
but overall it’s a pretty decent piece, pulling together segments on the evolving infrastructure of Web 2.0 applications in terms of:
As well as an Interactive Timeline.
The piece on “Content Management” is probably the strongest of the bunch, noting that “what makes content management more difficult for many Web 2.0 companies is the need to deal with user-generated material,” while the major content management systems aren’t designed to handle high volumes of intake and meta data from external users.
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