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Latest Articles from Sean Rhody
By Sean Rhody It's not unusual for the January issue of a magazine to have a column discussing the past, or predicting the future. This year, I thought we might try something a little different. Rather than reminisce or prognosticate, I thought I'd toss out my list of Web service needs in the form o... Dec. 16, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,892 | By Sean Rhody There's an expression in the industry - 'putting lipstick on a pig.' It's used to signify a task, or project, that has only cosmetic value and doesn't address the real issues of a situation - it merely makes the pig look a little better. But after all, it's still a pig. Sometimes as w... Nov. 18, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,525 | By Sean Rhody There's an old expression - 'When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.' There's a wealth of applicable comment in this expression. It's an admonition to see the bigger picture as well as a suggestion that to be a true craftsman, one must have the right tools. Oct. 23, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,593 | By Sean Rhody There's a lot going on in the world of Web services these days, so much so that it's almost hard to keep track of it. And there is definitely enough to make it difficult to make sense of competing initiatives. But it certainly makes for interesting watching. Case in point is the Web ... Oct. 21, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,840 | By Sean Rhody We aren't a news magazine, and we don't cover current events except as they relate to our industry, so I had to think long and hard about what to say in this edition. Nevertheless, I decided that at least in my editorial, we would remember September 11th. Aug. 27, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,728 Replies: 2 | By Sean Rhody Since PowerBuilder Developer's Journal is now in its 10th year of publication, we asked a couple of old friends to share their thoughts and memories about the magazine. Aug. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT | By Sean Rhody Web Services Journal received a copy of the latest visual development environment from Microsoft - Visual Studio .NET, Enterprise Architect edition. We loaded the software on a PC running Windows 2000 Server, with 384MB of RAM, but with a fairly slow processor (400MHz AMD K6-III). Jul. 30, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,814 | By Sean Rhody In the world of Web services, the question of the month is about platforms. Does the Web services world resemble the political system of the United States, with a two-party system, or is it a more free-wheeling system of coalitions and multiple interests? Jul. 30, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,956 | By Sean Rhody SYS-CON Radio interviews Rick Hightower, CTO, Trivera, live from the show floor. Jun. 27, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,217 | By Sean Rhody SYS-CON Radio interviews John Blair, Chairman and Corporate Development Officer of Kenamea. Jun. 27, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,471 | By Sean Rhody SYS-CON Radio interviews Jenee Bennett, of iSavvix Corporation. Jun. 27, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,105 | By Sean Rhody SYS-CON Radio interviews John Nydam, Product Manager for Melissa Data. Jun. 27, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,943 | By Sean Rhody SYS-CON Radio interviews Reg Bravo, Director of Business Development for EvolveWare Inc. Jun. 27, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,474 | By Sean Rhody SYS-CON Radio interviews Bill Dettleback, Chief Systems Architech, eXcelon. Jun. 27, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,382 | By Sean Rhody SYS-CON Radio interviews Emilio Bernabei, Director of Product Management at Covasoft. Jun. 26, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,730 | By Sean Rhody I guess the title begs the question, if this is the end of the beginning, is it the beginning of the end? Hardly. But it is time to close the book on the first phase of Web services - the beginning of the hype curve. Jun. 19, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,691 | By Sean Rhody Like many IT professionals, I'm an amateur musician. As such, I know how much effort it can be to get a group of people to work together, start together, end together and make a pleasant sort of noise together. And I play in a small group, so I can imagine the coordination effort of so... May. 24, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,889 Replies: 1 | By Sean Rhody Remember that kid in the neighborhood - the one who had the bat and ball, and if you wanted to play together, you had to use his stuff? Even if he was a pretty nice kid, there was always a time when you longed for the ability to play on your own, or at least use a bat that was more you... May. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,386 Replies: 7 | By Sean Rhody One of the ingrained attitudes in the United States is the desire to simplify choices to a binary decision. Black or white. Coffee or tea. Winner or loser. Even our expressions reflect this 'two-horse race,' 'two-party system.' And it's no different in the world of Web services. On ... Apr. 5, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,427 | By Sean Rhody SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Krishna Gollamudi, President, Wakesoft Mar. 27, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 5,737 | By Sean Rhody SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Ajay M. Rambhia, CTO, EvolveWare Inc. Mar. 26, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 5,287 | By Sean Rhody SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Hugh Grant, CTO, Cape Clear Software Mar. 26, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 4,820 | By Sean Rhody SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Steve Benfield, CTO, SilverStream Software Mar. 26, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 5,016 | By Sean Rhody SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Dave Chappell, Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software Corporation Mar. 26, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 5,373 | By Sean Rhody SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Nigel Thomas, Director of Product Marketing, SpiritSoft Mar. 26, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 5,202 | By Sean Rhody As the new year finally starts to take hold, we're seeing a number of interesting, challenging, and even disturbing trends in the world of Web services. One of the more interesting business intelligence reports predicted recently that Web services will hit the height of its 'hype curve... Mar. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,376 | By Sean Rhody Probably one of the most interesting tasks that can be given to an architect (system architect, program architect, lead architect, application architect - pick the title that resonates most in your environment) is the task of evaluating or determining the direction of an enterprise arc... Feb. 6, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,984 | By Sean Rhody There's an old story about what happens when several blind men encounter an elephant. One, feeling the leg, says that an elephant is like a tree. Others, touching various other parts of the elephant's anatomy, describe it as other things. The point of the story, besides not hiring b... Feb. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,532 | By Sean Rhody Wireless, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Mention wireless, and you can step back and watch the conversation spin for hours around differing definitions and approaches. In some minds, wireless is all about cell phones, and consequently is a completely consumer-oriented ... Jan. 11, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,611 | By Jeremy Geelan; Sean Rhody Web Services Edge West and XMLEdge 2001 opened for business October 22 with a series of sessions and tutorials. Five tracks were maintained throughout the conference. The conference proper began on Tuesday, October 23, with a keynote presentation by Dr. Charles Goldfarb, the father of ... Dec. 3, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,220 | By Sean Rhody I'm showing my age, but a number of years ago ELO released an album entitled 'Discovery.' One of the songs was entitled 'Shine a Little Light,' which is apropos for this month's editorial since our feature focus for this edition is Discovery. I took part in a panel discussion... Dec. 3, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,065 Replies: 1 | By Sean Rhody The software industry returned to New York City with the International Java & Web Services Conference and Expo at the Hilton New York. In spite of what many thought might prove insurmountable obstacles, the international software industry has provided New York City today with a res... Nov. 30, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,637 Replies: 1 | By Sean Rhody One of the most interesting paradoxes of the information age is the challenge of obtaining critical mass for a technology - the classic chicken-and-egg problem. Remember when you could buy your software on floppy disks because only a few people had CD-ROM drives? How about the ... Nov. 29, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,705 | By Sean Rhody For nearly 160 years, Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) has been collecting and providing information and analysis on public and private companies worldwide. As a business information company, D&B relies heavily upon technology to support data that produces up-to-the-minute decisioning products. ... Oct. 21, 2001 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,643 | By 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... Oct. 21, 2001 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,269 | By Sean Rhody SYS-CON Radio host and editor-in-chief of Web Services Journal, Sean Rhody, interviews John Rymer, CEO of IONA Technologies Jun. 7, 2001 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,025 | By Sean Rhody My column two months ago, 'Sunset on the Evil Empire,' stirred up a great deal of controversy. Part of it was my fault, as I was trying to make two distinct points in the article, and that elicited a great deal of excitement directed at one point or the other. My first point, which I m... May. 1, 2001 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,135 | By Sean Rhody This is my first note to let everyone know about the plans for our very own, SYS-CON-sponsored JavaEdge2001 International Java Developer Conference & Expo. This year's conference will be held in New York City from September 23 to September 26. As a corporation, SYS-CON has committed to... Apr. 1, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,581 | By Sean Rhody Maybe I don't understand marketing concepts. It seems to me that advertising one of your products as 13 times more reliable than another of your products is not the optimal approach. In my mind, you'd want to emphasize its reliability compared to your competitors' products. But hey, no... Mar. 1, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,539 | By Sean Rhody You see personalization and targeted marketing all over the web. Almost every commerce site offers you the opportunity to set up your own favorites, rearrange their home page to suit your tastes, and be remembered when you come to their site. Every site I visit allows me to set up ... Feb. 1, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,116 |
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Sean Rhody is the founding-editor (1999) and editor-in-chief of SOA World Magazine. He is a respected industry expert on SOA and Web Services and a consultant with a leading consulting services company. Most recently, Sean served as the tech chair of SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East.
