Sadly it now seems as if the public sector is moving down this doleful path, just as some commercial organisations are realising the error of their ways. While we might well think of the public sector as a 'mature market', there is little scope for...
The whole world has settled on a single modelling language to describe the innards of applications, known as the Unified Modelling Language (UML). Later, software tools such as software through pictures started a fashion in using models to...
Forget the Unified Modelling Language (UML - a developer notation tool designed to help people define technical architectures in business terms). The IT people are more comfortable with use cases and UML artefacts.
OASIS has started a committee that will seek to provide guidance on SOAs. The committee, announced on Tuesday, will create a reference model for SOAs, that will seek to improve the understanding of them.
Adobe's path starts where Office leaves off, acting as an electronic version of a printer that can transport formatted copy as needed - even onto mobile devices. Mechanisms such as these enable a fairly high level of trust to be built into the...
This is especially true of service-oriented architectures (SOA). In practice charges give a highly distorted picture of costs, a situation that leaves providers with plenty of scope to alter the tariff in ways that are liable to alter the cost...