Well thanks to those awfuly nice people at Sun I've done my first VODcast on SOA, tools and what technologies are hot. Unlike the people on the West Coast I had to do it via a webcam link (cheers to Simon Cook for the help there).
In quite a busy month there is also an interesting article in information age about SOA "who plays, who pays" where I put some of my oar into the debate, but the interesting bit comes from Chris who puts it all in a consistent context. Its a key question on SOA, how do we change the current funding model to make IT more accountable and more successful.
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I like the fridge analogy in that article.
It did make me wonder... our office is in a business centre and the fridge & kitchen are shared between a constantly changing pool of 5-10 small companies (typically ranging in size from 2 to 10 people). There are no post-it notes or disputes of ownership because we all pay a small amount to the business center (a third party) to provide the kitchen/fridge service. Some people use more than others but then they pay more as the business center charge by "office space" (the desks, lights power etc. are also a service, I guess)
I think the problem with internal fridges in other companies is that they are not treated like a service. Perhaps user authentication and a "pay per use" model are the way to avoid conflict over internal service provision (including fridges etc.)?
Just an idea.
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