InfoQ précis a nicely down-to-earth examination of “the state of SOA/BPM software and its vendors.”
Here’s a taster:
While rank and file developers go to conferences to soak in deep technical content, their peripherally technical managers (the ones who wrote some rockin’ good Cobol code back in the day, but now they make decisions about modern enterprise architecture) go to different conferences in Palm Springs. At those conferences, they have a 2-hour morning session, run by a big tool vendor, then play golf for the balance of the afternoon. And what the vendors show them is poison.
I just love the term “doodleware” the author introduces!
It’s a curious thing: just yesterday I was pontificating on a similar theme to a colleague; it’s nice to know that my cynical world-view is not completely in my own head, after all…
Perhaps the author wanted something along the lines of grailsflow?
