Michael Platt's WebLog

So looking through my calendar for the next couple of weeks I have a ton of presentations to give and events to attend. First of all tomorrow at 2pm BST I am giving my Integration and Interop presentation, latest version, as a webcast which should be Read More...

and is available from http://www.microsoft.com/hiserver/downloads/2000.asp . All the fixes rolled up into one! Cant wait to see if some of the bugs that have been irritating me have been fixed. Read More...

Last week I spoke at the Architect forum on Operations and management here in reading on DSI and SDM. There was a lot of interest and discussion on the whole area of metadata for organizing IT architectures which was fun. As well as SDM DCML and some Read More...

I read this really interesting article about architects in the CIO magazine http://www.cio.com/archive/030105/blueprint.html I also had a long discussion with the CIO of a major investment bank in the city about his perception of architecture. It is pretty Read More...

I noticed an interesting conference by The Open Group on architecture (the IT Practitioners Architecture Conference ) on the 25-27 th April in Dublin. It says that they will be focusing on the role of the IT Architect and the IT Architecture as a profession Read More...

I am holding a tutorial on Architectural Failures at SPA 2005 in the UK the week after next (see http://www.spaconference.org/content.html ) and am looking for any examples that I can use. I have a couple where bad application distribution or poor availability Read More...