Arthur J. Musgrove

Web services is useful, but it is too complex to be implemented in many organizations. That's where [insert new technology here] comes in. Its simplification of systems integration will revolutionize the enterprise IT department. Sorry, I'm just getting a head start on the next wave of technology. The truth is that hard problems have hard solutions, and industry veterans agree that systems integration is a hard problem. While IT managers want integration solutions, they sometimes think the medicine is worse than the disease. When that view becomes pervasive enough, the industry invents a new technology. You don't believe me? When the first official version of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) was released in October 1991, it was said to herald a new age of simplified software interoperability and platform independence. The fact was the first COR... (more)