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May 2004 - Posts

Team System (Burton)

At last Burton has been announced at teched. It is such a new and important element to our tools strategy going forward I just have to blog about it (along with the rest of the world!). For all you lucky people at tech ed the main sessions covering Burton Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:26 AM by Michael Platt | (Comments Off)

Software Factories resources

I am in the process of writing the inaugural edition of the UK architecture newsletter due out in May(!) and was scratching my head as to what article or theme to lead with. Looking back over my Blog at possible topic areas I decided that Software Factories Read More...
Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 1:29 PM by Michael Platt | 7 Comments

MDA, SOA and Grid: A New Model for Computing

After my blog about grid a couple of days ago I have been putting in a lot more thought about Grid and the other two main buzz areas in enterprise computing; MDA and SOA. I am gradually coming to the conclusion that these map onto the three main areas Read More...
Posted Friday, May 21, 2004 10:56 AM by Michael Platt | 3 Comments

Software Factories

Software factories have been around for some time now originating from work done at the SEI. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/plp/plp_init.html Recently Keith Short and Jack Greenfield from the VS Enterprise Tools group have been writing a book on the subject. Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 20, 2004 6:10 PM by Michael Platt | (Comments Off)

Modelling and MDA

Cracking article and discussion around Modeling, MDA and the issues of OMG’s implementation on the Server Side at http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=MDA_Haywood The discussion thread is also well worth reading. http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=2586 Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:54 AM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

Grid

Yesterday I was an all day Architect Council Meeting about Grid. We had the Head of Microsoft Research in the UK , Two professors from Southampton University and an Architect from a major Bank who had implemented a huge grid application. I have been looking Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:56 PM by Michael Platt | 9 Comments

Objects, Components, Models and Services

I was in a meeting with a group of architects the other day (should that be a gaggle of architects? Or perhaps a whoop!) about SOA. Everyone was pretty much in agreement about what it was and when it should be used so in order to liven things up I threw Read More...
Posted Monday, May 17, 2004 3:47 PM by Michael Platt | 12 Comments

Hijacking

I don’t know about you but as to the vast majority of my family and friends I “do something with computers” I get called upon to explain / fix / update all sorts of device, hardware, software and applications. Whilst this can be good Read More...
Posted Friday, May 14, 2004 11:51 AM by Michael Platt | 19 Comments
 
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