Sean Rhody

I sometimes think that the best job in the world would be strategic thinking. Every time I see a quote from a strategist, it's always five years out and full of promise. You know the ones I mean. It goes something like this: "By 2005 every wristwatch will have a Pentium 7 processor and 2 GB RAM, with voice recognition and holographic screen projection." It seems like nice work, and there's no burden of delivery. It's even better than being the weatherman. At a time when Web services is in its infancy, I sometimes feel like I have just that job. One of the interesting facets of editorial work is setting an editorial calendar and selecting topics. Doing that for this first year of Web Services Journal has been akin to looking into my crystal ball and peering into the fut... (more)

i-Technology Viewpoint: Death to the Browser

To paraphrase, "I come not to praise the Browser, but to bury it." Because the cold hard fact of application development is that the browser needs to die. Immediately. It's already caused more than enough damage. This may seem to be a harsh statement. After all, the browser was responsible for the explosion of the Internet. It serves many useful purposes and people do billions of dollars... (more)

"The Backdoor" – BPM Solutions Pay

People who know me would generally agree I'm a straightforward guy - I pretty much just like to move in the direction I've said I was going, rather than try to move from side to side and finesse something. So when it comes to technology, I tend to like to go with technology because it makes sense, and I usually assume that most IT organizations work that way as well. But when you look at ... (more)

SOA World - Come Together

Back before I began my career in computers, I studied physics. One of the concepts that fascinated me was that of nuclear fusion - bringing two particles together to form a new, heavier particle and at the same time producing energy. In the business world, I find the concept of a merger between two companies very much akin to the concept of fusion. You have two companies, which are the ... (more)

SOA Editorial: Blowing My Horn

There's a biblical story about a walled city called Jericho. In the story, the walled city was under siege, and the folks who wanted in blew their horns for seven days and then the walls all fell down. The Open Group has an initiative based on this story, called Jericho Security, which is based on the premise of security without walls. This is at odds with most current concepts of securit... (more)