davidjf

SOA story is a nice one! It was at the top of CIO challenges for 2007, and reemphasised in recent C eBit, ... To consider the best way to develop, maintain application is to design them as independant LEGO buiding blocks, exchanging services is a nice creative dream. But... picture, in large companies, of application portfolio shows the real mess: heterogeneous applications, different programming language, weight of history, big amount of usable application, only a small part being used and ...

This Web2 emphasis is a bit enervating for some people (like me). Any rational? This big Web2 bag contains a lot of concepts and techniques, sometimes rather new (Ajax, long tail, ..), sometimes rather old (social networks, blogging, forums, ...). Some of those concepts where historically peripheral, borderline, even sometimes freakish, and are now becoming, just because technology is more mature, full mainstream. - a first immediate consequence is irruption of merchants, vendors, consultants arou ...

About Moore's law, Intel still invest strongly in 45 nanometers technology in competition with AMD, IBM, ... For the future, why not quantum computers ? May be not ready ! ..and atom thin graphite to build transistors... And this fantastic technology, RFID, with all its opportunities and risks, now at 50 micrometer size ! Man/machines interface: Suppressing the mouse , eye movement driven computer? It's an old dream. I already tried that in an IBM research lab years ago. A b ...