Transforming Software Architecture for the 21st Century. Gartner’s top 10 technologies for 2008. Gartner outlined its top 10 strategic technology areas for 2008 and many roads lead to service oriented architecture. The top 10 is off to the right and there aren't any huge surprises. Who didn't see green IT and virtualization being listed? But what's notable are all of the SOA precursors to be found. Business process modeling (No. 3), metadata management (No. 4), mashups and composite apps (No. 6) and Web platforms (No. 7) all add up to SOA down the road. All of those aforementioned items need to be done as large companies adopt SOA.
"SOA isn't on the list because we are looking at some of the implementation technologies for service oriented architecture," says Gartner analyst David Cearley. Cearley argues that metadata management falls into a similar category. A look at some of the other key technologies described. Claunch argues that there may be limits put on data center choices, regulations may become more prominent and then there's the cost savings to your electric bill.
The Merging of SOA and Web 2.0. Hewlett-Packard will apparently need close to two months to start fulfilling backorders for the (temporarily) revived TouchPad tablet. "It will take 6-8 weeks to build enough HP TouchPads to meet our current commitments, during which time your order will then ship from this stock with free ground shipping," read an email sent to customers and reprinted in a Sept. 7 posting on the Precentral.net blog. "You will receive a shipping notification with a tracking number once your order has shipped. "That would place the new TouchPads in consumers' hands sometime in either late October or early November. The reduced-price devices are not returnable, according to the email. Nicholas Kolakowski is a staff editor at eWEEK, covering Microsoft and other companies in the enterprise space, as well as evolving technology such as tablet PCs. IBM: Web 2.0 for Biz Ready for Takeoff.