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noun - A fundamental, essential, or irreducible constituent of a composite entity. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin About Eleanor Kruszewski: I'm known variously as Eleanor or Elle. My last name is like that coach from Duke - kru-shef-ski. Based in Menlo Park, CA, I work for Yahoo! in their Developer Network. The easiest description of what I do is the MBA shin kicker, handling community, marketing, commercial programs and sundry backend stuff. Disclaimer: I've done big corps, midcorps, and startups, so I overstate and oversimplify as much as anyone else. These opinions are my own, not my employer's. |
Archive for August, 2004A well-specified problem setKelly Martin, of the security firm SecurityFocus, offers up an extremely clear view of the problem plaguing the Internet in his article, Kelly’s article describes the current state, which is manageable really for neither pro- nor novice users. But what is really thought provoking is to follow his line of thought through to mobile systems. Imagine your phone or device getting pinged that often. Imagine today’s current wireless infrastructure, which already can show strains of high usage. This problem of users with unsecured computers ins’t going to go away with the release of Windows XP SP2, or even Longhorn. I think it will be eventually necessary to evolve locked-down but flexible systems that are hosted, where applications are provisioned as needed and all security and data cleansing done at the server. But we’ll see. Participate: 1 Comment | TrackbackMeta on IBM’s Lotus WorkplaceDavid Yockelson of the Meta Group with Matt Cain in a MetaView audio briefing. More information, the audio stream, and the slides can be found here.
David: Matt, how are you doing today?
David: Well I’m glad to hear it. For this Meta View, we’re going to talk about Lotus Workplace and I could succinctly put this as, this is the summary… well, I guess this is two things, it’s a summary and it’s a look forward at what IBM is doing post Notes, and along with Domino. But it’s also a way for IBM to better work WebSphere into the picture and have it intermingle, if not co-exist with Domino.
David: OK, so we’ll look at that in a second, and I’ll take a position that that is not necessarily a bad thing, but first, it’s a good thing I said Notes, and not Ray Ozzie or Iris, because then we’d go way back. But let’s go on to the next slide, and you’re going to talk a little bit about what we call Knowledge Worker Infrastructure (KWI) frameworks. Now, to the point you made a second ago, where IBM is essentially placing its bets and world focus, now one could argue that focusing in and around the portal, given it’s ability to drive context, and aggregate and manage and perhaps to ultimately lead the end users and lead IBM through an ability to create wonderful composite applications, and so on, would be the right bet to make. But why don’t you walk us through what goes into this particular KWI framework and what does that mean.
David: Ok, so now given that you gave us a little bit of a preview at, say, a 20,000 foot level, of Workplace. Next slide, walk us through a little bit more of the nuts and bolts of the Workplace client, and what goes on there.
David: OK - so from the client, let’s extend almost every place, go on to the next slide, and we’ll look at what is the IBM collaboration story four years from now.
David: OK, so there’s certainly opportunity for people to take a bet and in some cases, as you’re saying, it would make sense for people to move in one direction, or in only one direction. Now, moving to a different crystal ball, looking at Domino development, what do you think happens there?
David: Yeah, and I think a piece of that, just to move it up a level, but one of the popular and convincing things about Domino applications is that they always had, and you could argue good-bad, but it always had workflow built into it. In other words they were very tight into process. And there really isn’t much, there certainly isn’t anything in the native J2EE environment to do that, so the other thing that’s incumbent would be for IBM to bring that along. Whether it’s a sense of industry process, something at a slightly lower level in terms of specific business process, but something that will, in addition to the look and the feel and the underlying logic, something that can move things along and get work done. That was a hugely appealing piece of the Domino puzzle.
David: OK, so bottom line for us, what should clients do in the future?
David: Ok, so it sounds like there’s certainly a lot of promise but also potentially some pain, or at least work to do, whether it’s relative to migration or whether it’s relative to skill sets, trying to discern what sort of applications should live in which environments. So lots of decisions for our clients to make. David: Well, thanks very much, and for all those listening, thanks very much and that was today’s Meta View. Participate: 0 Comments | Trackback |
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