Facing tough times may be here to stay
Strategies that some systems integrators are implementing to stay afloat during these tough times.
Connecting A to B: A swivel chair approach
If you had to name one highly effective enterprise application integration strategy what would it be? An Enterprise Service Bus? A Service Oriented Architecture? A distributed object API? How about an asynchronous messaging substrate? Sometimes, when my disposition shades towards the cynical end of the spectrum, I find myself comparing these things to pouring gasoline onto a fire. In more optimistic moments I compare them to laying down freeways. It is more concrete but designed to facilitate interconnection of existing concrete (buildings).
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