* See no evil? * Political football * The world is going SOA… * …and SOAs change software development
See no evil?
Mark Gibbs this week takes on The New York Times in his Backspin column. It seems a columnist suggested that perhaps we’d all be better off if Microsoft didn’t patch the security holes in its software at all. Perhaps the bad guys wouldn’t even find security vulnerabilities if Microsoft didn’t highlight the vulnerabilities by patching them. Gibbs dissects this argument.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/102504backspin.html?vo
Political football
Paul McNamara gets a lot of feedback whenever he writes a column having anything remotely to do with politics. Some readers write in to say that politics has no place in a technology-focused publication, but Paul argues that politics matters to technologists, to our readers.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/102504buzz.html?vo
The world is going SOA…
Data Center Newsletter author Johna Till Johnson has bought into the buzz surrounding service-oriented architectures. SOAs represent a long-overdue break with client-server architectures – and the revolution is coming to enterprises, telcos and vendors alike.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/102504johnson.html?vo
…and SOAs change software development
Speaking of SOAs, Frank Dzubeck this week talks about how the revolution will force a new kind of software development, one that relies even more on so-called “components.”
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/102504dzubeck.html?vo
