Tuesday, February 28, 2006

RSS or SOAP I've been preaching lately about RSS as a game changer for software connectivity. (Not that I'm an expert.) However, I feel better that I'm in great company when I saw this Dave Winer post. Last week I was emailing with an architect at one of the major enterprise software companies, a huge company with offices all over the world. She told me that RSS 2.0 has become the framework for all their work now, completely replacing J2EE. She wondered if that was my plan. I said it wasn't -- that was what SOAP was supposed to do. But SOAP got all screwed up by exactly the kind of tech BS that's starting to happen now with RSS. It's probably too late for the tech companies to screw it up, RSS 2.0 has too much momentum and too many people are happy with what it does, and the Roadmap provides an adequate escape valve for the pressure to innovate. But we need to keep our eyes and ears open. Given the chance, Silicon Valley and Redmond will definitely screw it up. 9:09:00 AM    comment []

ODVA I was totally swamped at the ARC Forum last week and forgot all about ODVA annual meeting held at the same time in Arizona. It they'd have held it in Orlando, I could have made it a trifecta (along with the ActivPlant users conference). Anyway, here is a post from Geoff Hodgkinson's Industrial Ethernet Book blog about the event. In a nutshell, the ODVA CIP crew is trying to make real-time Ethernet work without custom silicon. I've seen working demos, so in principle this is doable. Profibus, on the other hand has decided to go with custom chips that vendors will have to buy from a prominent Profibus supplier. Now you are all set to watch this year's networking sparks fly (metaphorically speaking, I hope). ODVA 2006: Conference highpoints[sigma]. As I said in yesterday's entry the pitch at this year's event was all about making hardwired reality of the notion of motion in the CIP sales message. It's also the reason that the eye-catching papers presented to a full house Technical Track meeting were all tied to this premise. The session... [IEB_blog] 8:46:32 AM    comment []