Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Sunday, October 20, 2002

[Item Permalink] Mystery of the Myyrmanni bombing -- Comment()
I slightly updated my story of the bombing at the Myyrmanni shopping center. A lot of facts are known, newspapers and magazines have written long articles about the background and effects of the bombing. But still the motive for the bombing remains a mystery.


[Item Permalink] Web services start to grow up -- Comment()
Werblog: "Service Grids: The Missing Link in Web Services is one of a series of working papers by John Hagel and John Seely Brown. As expected, the initial excitement about Web services has given way to disappointment. [...] Hagel and Brown point out a key issue -- the need for management and monitoring infrastructure to make Web services function in real enterprise environments. [...] Where a year ago all the Web services companies were building development tools and basic SOAP wrappers, now the emphasis has shifted to ensuring performance, reliability, security, and cross-organizational integration. This is nuts-and-bolts stuff, for the most part. But it's essential, I believe, for creating the software architecture of the next 20 years. [...] That architecture will be something more than Web services, as commonly understood. [...] The good ideas emerging around P2P, grid computing, and the semantic Web will all play a role."