SOA & Web Services

We don't need al-Qaeda to blow us up. We are perfectly capable of lighting the fuse ourselves, courtesy of our inability to share information vertically and bilaterally.

A SaaS supplier wants corporate IT to deploy their apps as a service to company users.

Today, CIO means being more than a competent manager of IT. It should mean Lord of Process, and we should grasp that title and run with it.

It's IT Blogwatch: in which we examine the fallout from Microsoft giving up on its bid to buy Yahoo! Does this mean Ballmer must go? Will it drive Yahoo into the arms of Google? What will Microsoft do with its bulging war chest? Not to mention the perils of the company picnic...

In case you've been living under a rock, Juan Carlos Perez reports:

One SaaS vendor says data integration is not a problem for cloud computing.

Sun Microsystems could do much more for cloud computing.

A new company says CEO woes finding the right person for the right job may be a thing of the past.

You may not know the term, "CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart)," but you've used it. You may not, however, be using it for much longer.

It's IT Blogwatch: in which folks worry about lock-in at Google's new App Engine. Not to mention a slightly pointless game...

Andy Baio claims an "exclusive":

One of the biggest criticisms of Google's App Engine have been cries of lock-in, that the applications developed for the platform won't be portable to any other service. This morning, Chris Anderson, the Portland-based cofounder of the Grabb.it MP3 blog service, just released AppDrop — an elegant hack proving that's not true. AppDrop is a container for applications developed with the Google App Engine SDK, running entirely on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure. Just like Google's Appspot, anyone can use a modified SDK to deploy their App Engine apps directly to Amazon EC2 instead of Google, and they work without modification ...

It's IT Blogwatch: in which Google does an embarrassing volte-face on an App Engine app. Not to mention the 50 greatest comedy sketches of all time...

Heather Harreld Havenstein goes all alliterative on us: [Get a room -Ed.]

Just a day after launching a preview version of its new Google App Engine, Google Inc. yesterday yanked one of the development product's demo applications after a blogosphere brouhaha erupted over its origin. The move came after bloggers contended that the real-time chat demo application for Google App Engine, called HuddleChat, was a copy of the Campfire real-time chat application from 37Signals LLC.

It's IT Blogwatch: in which Google launches App Engine, predicting sleepless nights for Amazon and Microsoft. Not to mention bad gamer tattoos...

In Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire, Heather Havenstein hardly happens:

Google Inc. launched a preview release of its new Google App Engine yesterday, ...

Norway claims ISO vote on OOXML was held in Palm Beach County.

Rabbits, white rabb-it's IT Blogwatch: in which the world goes to heck in a handbasket. Not to mention Portal in Flash...

Sir Richard Branson is over the moon:

I'm delighted today to announce Virgle, Inc., a joint venture between the Virgin Group and Google ... [its] goal is simple: the establishment of a permanent human settlement on Mars. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and I feel strongly that contemporary technology is sufficiently advanced to make such an effort both successful and economical, and that it's high time that humanity moved beyond Earth and began our great, long journey to explore the stars and establish our first lasting foothold on another world ...

One SaaS provider can manage and bill your customers for as little as 10 cents per invoice.

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