CIO | City Planning: a Metaphor forEnterprise Architecture
Some incentive to get your Chief Strategy Officer or other executive level planning people involved in your EA project...they may be tasked with the whole effort one day...
META Trend: Enterprise architecture (EA) success will be determined by the extent to which corporate and line-of-business managers comprehend, support, and enforce the architecture. By 2007, 15 percent of EA core teams will move out from under the IT organization’s management structure, with direct reporting relationships to either corporate strategy or corporate change management functions. By 2007, 40 percent of enterprise architects will have primary expertise in business strategy or process engineering.
Having them play a key role in the Common Requirements Vision (CRV) looks to be a great way to get them started.
Networking Pipeline - Removable Storage Spurs Enterprise Problems
for every removable USB storage device attached to an employee's key chain, there's an increased risk of corporate data walking out the door without anyone knowing about it. With capacities ranging up to a gigabyte or more, users can easily move a lot of files completely outside the confines of your storage system. That's a barn door that network admins can't easily shut. The best hope may be to amend corporate policy. One approach is an outright ban on the use of flash storage in the enterprise, but that might affect productivity. After all, some flash devices -- such as Key Computing's Xkey Exchange Edition -- are designed for corporate use. And given the size of these devices, a ban would be probably unenforceable anyway.
InfoWorld: BEA announces Liquid Computing: May 28, 2004: By Eric Knorr
BEA packaging up their various server, intergration, and development tools into a marketable platform. Problem is that when you try to grasp them, at the moment, it flows through your hands...
"...with the exception of WebLogic Server Process Edition (due this summer), none of the technologies announced at eWorld has a definite ship date."
Regardless, this does look like a combination of tools that Java shops will seriously want to look at.