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May 17, 2004
Apple and the Enterprise
Aaron Vegh has written a piece at OSnews.com on Apple and the Enterprise. After talking about the problems that the Sassar worm caused for his employer, he says:
This isn't the first time that those widely-publicized Windows security issues have bitten this company. When you think of both man-hours trying to fix the problem, and the combined loss of productivity in a company this size, the cost must be amazing. So the question must be asked: how can this company -- indeed, any large corporation -- rationally choose to support a Windows infrastructure?
The answer is complicated, and has as much to do with inertia, ignorance and comfort level as it does with dollars and cents.From The Apple of the Enterprise's Eye - OSNews.com
Referenced Mon May 17 2004 22:14:33 GMT-0600
Aaron then gives four reasons why Apple cannot compete in the enterprise in spite of the problems Windows faces:
- Enterprise IT hates surprises
- Apple does not have a dedicated enterprise sales force
- Apple does not support dozens of enterprise applications
- No ISV channel for enterprise applications
I don't think these reasons are far off. What's more, these same problems would largely apply to Linux as well. Selling to large corporations is a complicated business. Microsoft has it covered.
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Utah Java User's Group Talk
I'll be speaking at the Utah Java User's Group meeting this Thursday at 6pm. I'm going to be speaking on service oriented architectures and Web services middleware. I think anyone can go, they just ask that you RSVP to let them know to plan on you. I hope to see you there.
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Connecting Stateful Session Beans and JSPs
One of the most popular desitinations on my weblog from Google is a page I put together last year on Connecting Stateful Session Beans and JSPs. Recently, I've updated the example in some significant ways and wanted to repost it. This time, I'll write an essay so that I can re-edit it without reposting.
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SOAPScope Scrubs Up Web Services
In the world of Web services, SOAP's human-readable interactions are easy to create and debug. But to take advantage of that, you must first find a tool capable of capturing network traffic and another capable of analyzing it.
Mindreef's SOAPscope 3.0 does an excellent job at both tasks. In its most basic use, SOAPscope provides a convenient way to view SOAP messages both sent and received. With that information, developers can test and debug Web services to quickly find any potential problems.From InfoWorld: SOAPscope scrubs up Web services: May 14, 2004: By Phillip J. Windley
Referenced Mon May 17 2004 06:09:57 GMT-0600
I was originally going to do this as a preview and then come back to it later for a full review, but SOAPScope was such an easy product to use, that I just went ahead and did the full review.
At the most fundamental level, SOAPScope let's you monitor and manipulate SOAP traffic. There are plenty of products that do that, some of them are even free. What I loved about SOAPScope was the pseudocode presentation of SOAP and WSDL. Much easier to read than the XML-based syntax and, as a consequence, I think easier to get right, easier to debug, and easier to change. If they only had a Mac version, I'd be using it all the time.