[Info-vax] Someone's been sleeping in my bed (Re: Seasons Greetings)

[Richard Maher]

Hi Richard,

> Gee!  Whatever happened to DCE????

Don't forget ONC/RPC either, the BridgeWorks debacle, and COM was also
briefly given a
guernsey. Think of the brightside, the people who developed or ported all
this crap got paid huge amounts of license-payer money. AND THEY"RE STILL
HERE :-(

Cheers Richard Maher

"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote in message
news:N_idnUgrC5abMfXUnZ2dnUVZ_r6dnZ2d at giganews.com...
> Richard Maher wrote:
> > Hi Bill,
> >
> > "Bill Gunshannon" <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote in message
> > news:6s6lerF4fvhiU1 at mid.individual.net...
> >> In article <495c3477$0$90271$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
> >> Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> >>> Main, Kerry wrote:
> >>>> Yep, I still maintain there is going to be a return to the basics as
> >>>> Companies can no longer afford grandiose SOA / "latest rip-n-replace
> >>>> craze of the month" distributed programming strategy developed by the
> >>>> analyst / university / whoever theorists.
> >>> Companies can not afford not to do SOA. It is pretty expensive not
> >>> to reuse.
> >> And you can't reuse without SOA?  I thought "re-use" was the Ada
buzzword,
> >> not the SOA buzzword.
> >
> > I believe you're meant to forget about RPC, Sockets, MOM , or any other
kind
> > of middleware when discussing SOA. Java and SOAP is the order of the day
> > with even RESTful services shunned by the purists.
> >
> >>> SOA is most definitely not about replacing systems. You could argue
> >>> that SOA is about not replacing systems.
> >> Well, when you re-write all your COBOL in Java, sure sounds like
replacing
> >> to me.
> >
>
> Gee!  Whatever happened to DCE????
>
> The "buzzword of the moment" is just that.  Give it six months or a year
> and it will be history, replaced by the latest panacea!