Craig’s Musings

Today, EMC announced new releases of EMC Captiva products (i.e. EMC Captiva InputAccel 6.0 and EMC Captiva Dispatcher 6.0). I want to address the benefits of service-oriented infrastructure related to capture as embodied by these new releases.
The big deal with SOA and InputAccel 6.0 (IA6) is the connectivity it enables with other enterprise applications.
Capture depends [...]

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During the first keynote of PDC last week, Bob Muglia associated this year’s PDC with the 1992 PDC, which featured the coming out of Windows NT. (I still think of “WNT” as “V++ M++ S++”, given David Cutler’s leadership on both operating systems.)
I think there is much to draw from this comparison where [...]

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Robin Cover just published a technology report for CMIS to support the activities of the OASIS CMIS TC and external commentary, and with the intent to update the document with relevant bibliographic references as the Technical Committee work progresses. Thanks, Robin.

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Certainly the vision of Windows Azure (aka “Red Dog”) and the Azure Services Platform is substantial. However, in order for Microsoft, its partners and customers to realize it, it must deliver business value.
Internal or external, cloud computing has to address a set of real business problems in order to become a relevant part of one’s [...]

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It appears that a majority of what I plan to attend at this year’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is focused on cloud computing. Today, for example, I plan to attend the following sessions:

Keynote - Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
A Lap around Windows Azure
“Dublin” and .NET Services: Extending On-Premises Applications to [...]

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