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Cutter
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We're
at it again. Urged on by our "blogmistress" Anne Mullaney, the
Cutter consultants are going out on their annual limbs to give
their forecasts for 2011 and
beyond.
Once you pass the first hurdle, which is to discover that the path
to the forecasts is to click on the title above the gray date bar
(under "Contact Us"), you will find a growing list starting
with:
- Integrated Collaboration... Finally? by Claude
Baudoin
- In my Crystall Ball I See..., 7 predictions by Mike
Sisco
- A Surge in Demand for Mobile Apps -- and Developers,
by Catherine Szpindor
- Even Less Distinction between Work and Personal Time,
by Carl Pritchard
- A Move Toward Value Innovation, by Masa K. Maeda
- Greater Agile Adoption for 2011, by Gil Broza
- Cloud Computing Will Transform Business Applications,
by Jeffrey M. Kaplan
- Mobile Devices Will Become the Primary Web-Access
Devices, by Robert Scott
- Development Environments for Specific Architectural
Styles, by Oliver Sims
- It's the Tipping Point for Semantic Web Linked Open
Data! by Mitchell Ummel
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Are
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(www.dzone.com) is, according to PC Magazine, "a
technology publishing company that produces valuable content for
software architects and developers worldwide." It publishes news,
articles, video interviews, tutorials, reviews, and announcements
in seven "zones" or topical areas: .Net, Java, servers,
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From
the Department of Frivolous Patents
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to Peer-to-Patent, we discovered a recent
application for "sets
of systems and tools that drive complex enterprise execution logic
top to bottom, end to end and site to site through the discrete
execution and control of ten levels of mission-critical enterprise
structure." Enterprise Architecture frameworks have been
multiplying since Zachman's seminal paper
defining EA in IBM Systems Journal in... 1987. New perspectives may
be useful, but they hardly meet the "novel and non-obvious"
criteria for a patent. Otherwise, patents could issue for n-level
architectures, with n=1, 2, 3, ... ad
infinitum. |
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"The
first thing we need to understand about the Zachman Framework is
that it isn't a framework [... It] is actually a taxonomy for
organizing architectural artifacts (i.e., design documenta,
specification, models) that takes into account both who the
artifact targets (e.g., business owner, builder) [are] and
what particular issue (e.g., data, functionality) is being
addressed."
-- Roger
Sessions, "Comparison of the Top
Four
Enterprise
Architecture Methodologies," May 2007
"You
have reached perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but
when there is nothing left to take away."
("La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien �
ajouter, mais quand il ne reste rien � enlever")
-- Antoine de
Saint-Exup�ry
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