Miko Matsumura Platform Software Executive Technologist

My SOA blog in Japanese: me as Cartoon Character

With cartoons no less!!! The artist worked on the Video Game Classic “Parappa the Rapper”… I couldnt be more delighted!!!!! I love it! It’s so much fun. If you read Japanese check it all out...

The widening gyre

For years, the industry has struggled with the emergence of the new layer of abstraction that’s been called SOA… it’s been very slow to be born SOA evokes WB Yeats and his poem “The Second Coming”, the idea of a “Rough beast, it’s hour come round at last”. In the enterprise, things have fallen apart. The center is not holding at all. What is the center? Enterprise Applications? SAP? Oracle? The Mainframe? IBM? The desktop? Microsoft? The data...

Platforms for cloud services

Larry Ellison’s quote on Cloud Computing was pretty awesome: “The software industry is more fashion driven than ladies apparel!!!” Which isnt neccesarily a bad thing. The time cycles of fashion and technology have collided and given birth to “this year’s pink” iPod and “Blue is the new Green” cell phones. Hats off to Steve Jobs. Relevant to my previous “End of SOA SOA Sky is Falling Henny Penny 2.0” blog post, Frank Kenney from...

SOA IS OVER THE SKY IS FALLING PART 2: SOA or SOS?

In August of 2007 I wrote this post http://www.soacenter.com/?p=125 Which was a satirical piece about hysterical chicken Henny Penny who concluded that the “sky was falling” based on an acorn falling on his/her head (I guess Henny Penny must be a she because otherwise the name would be “Roostery Penny”?) It’s completely ironic to say that Gartner declares SOA to be entering the Trough of Disillusionment when in fact their “Hype cycle” research on...