Anne Manes
Anne Manes
breed business compete dying free hard stuff
The IDE business has been a dying breed for about 10 years. It's really hard to compete with free?especially when the free stuff is really good.
ability assemble behind dream point road services shared starts stuff systems web
The idea is that down the road all this stuff magically starts working together, and at that point you have this ability to assemble application systems from these shared reusable services. Of course, that is the dream behind Web services in the first place.
lacking market purchase
I've been berating the ESB market because it's lacking in governance. This purchase really addresses that for Sonic.
everybody means people plan starting talking
Everybody I'm now talking to is working on SOA. People have at least an inkling of what it means and they're starting to plan it.
almost amazing few people using
You can find WS-Security in all SOA products, but almost no one's using it. It's amazing how few people are using it.
convinced feeling good proud themselves
BEA is feeling proud of themselves because they had a good year. But I'm not convinced they are out of (the) water.
competence further gain hat marketing operating red sales selling team
It's questionable, though, how long it will take for the Red Hat sales and marketing team to gain competence in selling an application platform, which is much further 'up the stack' than the operating system.
company hang nobody pays reasonably remain remarkable survive trying
It's remarkable that they've been able to hang on and remain a reasonably sized company. They were not going to survive trying to be an IDE (integrated development environment) company because nobody pays for IDEs anymore.
biggest changed data fact forces learn model work
The fact that they changed the data model is my biggest concern. It forces us to learn something different. All the tooling you had to compile the old WSDL will not work anymore.
good smaller
There's a lot of smaller vendors doing real cutting-edge things and they've become pretty good at working together.
chickens harder hen
Once the chickens are out of the hen house, it's harder to get them back inside.