
No, really. I don't.
I don't have an XML strategy either.
No go on a SOA strategy.
Don't bother asking about my LAMP strategy.
Why don't I have a strategy for these things? Simple: They are technologies, not businesses in their own right. Yet, I seem to run across Yet Another Article asking whether I have a strategy around a technology. It's mind numbing.
It hurts my head to read how people make business decisions around
technology rather than figuring out what technologies are right
for the business. A CIO quoted in an article went so far to say
that "SOA is the business plan." What? No... SOA is a
application architecture. You can use it for writing
games, hacker tools, or CRM systems -- SOA does not care. If it
makes sense for solving your business problem, awesome. But
please, declaring that you're going to use SOA and then figuring
out how for a given problem is simply absurd.
Posted: Wed May 10 23:10:23 2006
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