John Evdemon, formerly coeditor-in-chief of XML-Journal, is an Architect with Microsoft's Architecture Strategy Team covering BPM, SOA and Internet Scale Computing. He is an XML and e-business expert, having served as CTO/Director of XML-Related Products for both a large integration platform vendor and a small XML-centric start-up. He has been working with XML since its early beginnings, is an Invited Expert with the W3C XML Core Syntax Working Group and has chaired several industry-specific XML initiatives.
Many so-called 'architecture astronauts' have been writing about multi-tenancy as if it's something shiny and new. Multi-tenancy has been around in one form or another for decades. As hardware costs continue to fall expect to see more organizations opt for a virtualization approach to ...
The XML 1.0 Technical Recommendation was approved in 1998, with a corrective release (termed the 'Second Edition') in 2000. The popularity of XML and XML-related initiatives has far surpassed the expectations of the original XML Working Group. The XML 1.0 Technical Recommendation (TR) ...
It's often said that history repeats itself - and by studying history we gain better insight into our current (and future) society. In the late 1800s the telegraph was immensely popular, but telegraphs only connected telegraph offices. Messages still had to be transcribed into a paper ...
As the 1970s drew to a close, Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' first appeared on BBC radio. 'Hitchhiker's Guide' was (and continues to be) wildly successful - the series was adapted into a four-book 'trilogy' and a hit TV show. 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the G...
During the late '90s and the early part of 2000, many people were busily working in startup X or Y, gleefully anticipating an initial public offering and the promise of cashing in on the New Economy.
On a recent trip overseas I neglected to pack the adapter plugs that enable you to plug an electrical cord from one country into an outlet in another. If you travel overseas you soon realize that many countries have incompatible electrical outlets.
Rube Goldberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who illustrated complex ways to achieve easy results, saw his cartoons as 'symbols of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimal results.' He believed there were two ways to do things: simple and hard, and that a su...
(This editorial is in two parts. Part 1, below, is by John Evdemon. Part 2, by JP Morgenthal, then follows.)XML-Journal recently posted a special article online (at www.sys-con.com/xml) celebrating XML's fourth birthday. It's hard to believe the little toddler has grown up to become a ...
HiT Software provides a line of standards-based XML and SQL middleware for application development and systems integration. HiT's Allora product line provides bidirectional XML access to databases and supports standard DOM/SAX parsers and, optionally, is accessible via SOAP interfa...
Is XML required for Web services? Not necessarily. Developers have been designing and building 'Web services-like' solutions for several years - long before the term Web services (or the Web, for that matter) existed. RPC introduced the concept of location transparency - distributed ob...
XML can be thought of as the 'universal serialization of data.' It provides a flexible, open approach for modeling data and sharing messages among business partners (or systems) in a consistent manner. XML provides the ideal solution to messaging in a B2B e-commerce infrastructure sinc...
One of the most significant challenges that businesses have traditionally faced is the integration of various system components throughout the enterprise. Over the past year, EAI (enterprise application integration) has emerged as a popular approach for integrating systems and gaining ...
'Patent applications are written by lawyers for lawyers.' - The League for Programming Freedom (http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/against-software-patents.html)
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John Evdemon, formerly coeditor-in-chief of XML-Journal, is an Architect with Microsoft's Architecture Strategy Team covering BPM, SOA and Internet Scale Computing. He is an XML and e-business expert, having served as CTO/Director of XML-Related Products for both a large integration platform vendor and a small XML-centric start-up. He has been working with XML since its early beginnings, is an Invited Expert with the W3C XML Core Syntax Working Group and has chaired several industry-specific XML initiatives. 
Many so-called 'architecture astronauts' have been writing about multi-tenancy as if it's something shiny and new. Multi-tenancy has been around in one form or another for decades. As hardware costs continue to fall expect to see more organizations opt for a virtualization approach to ...
