7/15/06: Podcast Update 2

I had to mow the yard, so got to knock off a couple more from my queue.

• Ed Vasquez, Tom Myers, Jerry Flasz and Derek Butcher participated on an Expert Panel where they did a SOA Reality Check Part II. I have to be honest and admit that I listened to this quite awhile ago so I don't remember many of the details. But, I know it was a good presentation and focused a lot on actual experience rolling out SOA. I would recommend listening.
• Jonathan Schwartz, President and COO of Sun Microsystems, Inc., participated in a conversation with Doc Searls, Senior Editor of Linux Journal at Syndicate 2005. Jonathan is one of my favorite speakers on these ITConversations podcasts. This was a lively, opinionated, and insightful exchange that I would recommend. I love Jonathan's assertion that he would not worry about providing email access to employees who might abuse it, but would worry that the more connected employees become the more they work. They also made a good case that a company that chooses to attempt to set the standard as a competitive advantage will ultimately have to choose which segment of the market they will serve and necessarily that which they will not serve. The conversation included discussions of open source and its impact. Jonathan also included a discussion about how one selects the appropriate license for a project.
• Marcel den Hartog, Computer Associates, talked about his notion of Three Degrees of Separation borrowing from the popular six degrees of separation idea. For Marcel, he is referring to 3 degrees of separation between any element of the application and the user: storage, middleware, and the application layer. This was a fast paced and good presentation.