The Minimum You Need to Know About Service Oriented Architecture

Logikal Solutions announces the completion of "The Minimum You Need
to Know About Service Oriented Architecture". It is expected to begin
shipping on or about April 28, 2008. It will be available at the
usual places for this series and has a list price of $45.00 US.

Service Oriented Architecture is all the rage these days. Dozens, if
not hundreds of books are published on it, and more seem to show up
every day. This book isn't awash with buzzwords and jargon. In
truth, this book will probably be shunned by the SOA elite.

Rather than focus on the front end, this book focuses on the back
end. That Heritage data silo/application where all of the other books
just draw a box with "connect somehow" written on it. Most of them
try to sell some expensive middleware along the way.

Management can and should read the first 5 chapters in this book.
These chapters aren't technical and may very well open their eyes.
The remaining chapters are for those programmers given the "connect
somehow" task. While OpenVMS is the Heritage platform of choice in
this book and Ubuntu is used for the front end development, developers
from other platforms should get a lot of ideas by reading this book.

Source code is provided on the CD.

This is the last book of the series which will cover OpenVMS.

On Apr 13, 12:14*pm, yyyc186 <yyyc...@hughes.net> wrote:[color=blue]
> shipping on or about April 28, 2008. *It will be available at the
> usual places for this series and has a list price of $45.00 US.
>[/color]

Links to the 'usual places' would be nice.

On Apr 14, 9:34*am, GraphicDave <graphicd...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> On Apr 13, 12:14*pm, yyyc186 <yyyc...@hughes.net> wrote:
>[color=green]
> > shipping on or about April 28, 2008. *It will be available at the
> > usual places for this series and has a list price of $45.00 US.[/color]
>
> Links to the 'usual places' would be nice.[/color]

Island Computers will be updating their product catalog this week.

Barnes and Noble is accepting orders as well.

Amazon.com will never be allowed to carry it under any circumstances.

Might this by available at the upcoming Bootcamp?


Sean

On Apr 14, 10:12*am, yyyc186 <yyyc...@hughes.net> wrote:[color=blue]
> On Apr 14, 9:34*am, GraphicDave <graphicd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
> > On Apr 13, 12:14*pm, yyyc186 <yyyc...@hughes.net> wrote:[/color]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > shipping on or about April 28, 2008. *It will be available at the
> > > usual places for this series and has a list price of $45.00 US.[/color][/color]
>[color=green]
> > Links to the 'usual places' would be nice.[/color]
>
> Island Computers will be updating their product catalog this week.
>
> Barnes and Noble is accepting orders as well.
>
> Amazon.com will never be allowed to carry it under any circumstances.[/color]

On Apr 14, 1:21 pm, s...@obanion.us wrote:[color=blue]
> Might this by available at the upcoming Bootcamp?
>[/color]

The short answer would be no.

On Apr 14, 9:34*am, GraphicDave <graphicd...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> On Apr 13, 12:14*pm, yyyc186 <yyyc...@hughes.net> wrote:
>[color=green]
> > shipping on or about April 28, 2008. *It will be available at the
> > usual places for this series and has a list price of $45.00 US.[/color]
>
> Links to the 'usual places' would be nice.[/color]

Logic book
[url]https://icusc.com/NOV21_WEBSTORE.asp?search_fd2=*You%20Need%20to%20Know*[/url]

Java Book
[url]https://icusc.com/NOV21_WEBSTORE.asp?search_fd2=*Java*[/url]

Application Book
[url]https://icusc.com/NOV21_WEBSTORE.asp?search_fd2=*The%20Minimum*[/url]

When David gets the database updated you can search for SOA or Service
here:
[url]https://icusc.com/NOV21_WEBSTORE_search.asp?[/url]


If you just can't wait for your friend David to get it listed, you can
go here:

[url]http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Minimum-You-Need-to-Know-about-Soa/Roland-Hughes/e/9780977086665/?itm=1[/url]

yyyc186 wrote:[color=blue]
>
> On Apr 14, 9:34 am, GraphicDave <graphicd...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=green]
> > On Apr 13, 12:14 pm, yyyc186 <yyyc...@hughes.net> wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> > > shipping on or about April 28, 2008. It will be available at the
> > > usual places for this series and has a list price of $45.00 US.[/color]
> >
> > Links to the 'usual places' would be nice.[/color]
>
> Island Computers will be updating their product catalog this week.
>
> Barnes and Noble is accepting orders as well.
>
> Amazon.com will never be allowed to carry it under any circumstances.[/color]

Seems a shame to "hide the lamp under a bushel" due to some "religious"
thing. VMS needs all the exposure it can get, even from the "sinners".

David J Dachtera
(formerly dba) DJE Systems

David J Dachtera wrote:
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> Seems a shame to "hide the lamp under a bushel" due to some "religious"
> thing. VMS needs all the exposure it can get, even from the "sinners".[/color]


You don't own VMS. HP doesn't even own VMS. It owns something called
OpenVMS, and it is HP's job to give its own products all the exposure HO
wants this product to get.

It is pointless for the userbase to go against the owner's wishes to
keep a product under the carpet. If HP wanted to market the product
formerly known as VMS, it would do so without any problems.

I can't paint your home while you're away because I think it would add a
lot of value to your home. Bt if you ask me to paint it because you
want to add value to yoru home, I can then help.

HP is in no way asking the -product-formerly-known-as-VMS userbase to
"paint the home". As far as they are concerned, we are a legacy customer
base and the strategy is to slowly move those customers to core HP
products over time. They are clearly not interested in marketing VMS.

There comes a point where the family need to make a decision to let a
loved one go once they realise that the doctors can't do anything else.

JF Mezei wrote:[color=blue]
> David J Dachtera wrote:[color=green]
>> Seems a shame to "hide the lamp under a bushel" due to some "religious"
>> thing. VMS needs all the exposure it can get, even from the "sinners".[/color]
>
> You don't own VMS. HP doesn't even own VMS. It owns something called
> OpenVMS, and it is HP's job to give its own products all the exposure HO
> wants this product to get.
>
> It is pointless for the userbase to go against the owner's wishes to
> keep a product under the carpet. If HP wanted to market the product
> formerly known as VMS, it would do so without any problems.[/color]

I think they are talking about Amazon not HP !

Arne

On Apr 15, 6:33 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam...@vaxination.ca> wrote:[color=blue]
> HP is in no way asking the -product-formerly-known-as-VMS userbase to
> "paint the home". As far as they are concerned, we are a legacy customer
> base and the strategy is to slowly move those customers to core HP
> products over time. They are clearly not interested in marketing VMS.[/color]

While that may be their strategy, it isn't working at any client sites
I visit. They are abandoning HP printers, hardware and software. The
core business systems still running on the operating-system-formerly-
known-as-VMS are having their service contracts moved to third party
companies. Most are going to either Ubuntu or AIX when choosing a
*nix platform. All of them realize moving from the operating-system-
formerly-known-as-VMS to HP/UX is a severe downgrade. Kind of like
moving from a Cadillac Escalade to a turbo Yugo. Yes it's cheaper,
but your chance of surviving a crash moves toward zero as well.

JF Mezei wrote:[color=blue]
>
> David J Dachtera wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Seems a shame to "hide the lamp under a bushel" due to some "religious"
> > thing. VMS needs all the exposure it can get, even from the "sinners".[/color]
>
> You don't own VMS. HP doesn't even own VMS. It owns something called
> OpenVMS, and it is HP's job to give its own products all the exposure HO
> wants this product to get.[/color]

Well, while you underscored my point in one way, you missed it in
another.

"yyyc186" has some, I can only call it, "religious" aversion to Amazon,
even though it's -THE- biggest, most popular book buying site on the
web. (Grudges are fine as far as they go if you're into that sort of
thing, but they're not very profitable.)

It's rather like boycotting television or "Hollywood" movies due to the
corruption, drugs, sex, rock-and-roll, etc. which characterize such
things.

For example, I cannot condone rap or a lot of other genres; however, I
would never consider instructing my marketing people to not buy ad
time/space in those media markets if I had a product that needed maximum
exposure.

For another example, I don't particularly appreciate PayPal's commission
structures or eBay's insertion fees and commissions. Given the
alternatives, however, I don't rule them out.

David J Dachtera
(formerly dba) DJE Systems

David J Dachtera wrote:
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>> Which is why I also don't do E-bay.[/color]
>
> If we all lived by that philosophy, poor Sue would be out of a job (or
> at least not working for VMS), because it would have died long ago).[/color]

This is debatable.

Years ago, the local bike club would stop at the local McDonalds after
the group rides for milkshakes etc. It had a nice outdoor terrace, so it
was easy to leave our bikes near to us and good to breathe some fresh air.

Then, they replaced the outdoor terrace with a roadway leading to the
"drive through".

Bike club moved to another place for the end of ride. BUT...

At one point, I needed some french fries for dinner, and I figured I
would just bike to the local McDonalds to buy some. Figured it would be
much more convenient to just use that "drive through" to order the
fries, this way I wouldn't have to get off the bike, lock it, etc etc.

But, they refused to sell me anything at the drive trhough. Something
about my not having triggered the car counting mechanism, so their
statistics would be out of whack. There was no car behind me, but they
insisted I could not buy from the drive through and the only way I could
get french fries was via the indoor counters. Told them they not onlyt
lost a sale, but also a customer.

A couple weeks later, I read in the newspaper that some guy in florida
got in the same situation as me, but he insisted on being served, and
the manager called the police and he was charged with trespassing.

I have NEVER gone back to McDonalds since. It turns out that this was
corporate policy to not serve cyclists at the drive through.

If everyone stood by their principles and not do business with outfits
that have screwed them (or vote for a party that screwed them), then the
world would be a better place and businesses would learn to better
handle their customers.

On Apr 25, 10:08 pm, David J Dachtera <djesys...@spam.comcast.net>
wrote:[color=blue]
> Needless to say, we refinanced with a local bank who does not sell their
> notes and we do not even consider doing business with WaMu. Then again,
> they have plenty of competition - they're nothing special in their
> market, unlike Amazon which is the largest, most popular and most
> recogizable and, therefore, the best place to market such a book.
>[/color]

Once again, do not repeat was is only un-true marketing hype. Amazon
is not the largest. In book sales, they are behind Barnes & Noble.
When you combine, book+movie+music CD they are behind both Barnes &
Noble and Walmart.

JF Mezei wrote:[color=blue]
> [snip]
> I have NEVER gone back to McDonalds since. It turns out that this was
> corporate policy to not serve cyclists at the drive through.[/color]

Where do other fast-food chains stand on that question?

If McD's is the only one discriminating, then you have a valid point.

If their policy is the accepted industry practice, it's rather a
different argument.

D.J.D.

In article <481A7CC4.9D8AC989@spam.comcast.net>, David J Dachtera <djesys.no@spam.comcast.net> writes:[color=blue]
> JF Mezei wrote:[color=green]
>> [snip]
>> I have NEVER gone back to McDonalds since. It turns out that this was
>> corporate policy to not serve cyclists at the drive through.[/color]
>
> Where do other fast-food chains stand on that question?
>
> If McD's is the only one discriminating, then you have a valid point.
>
> If their policy is the accepted industry practice, it's rather a
> different argument.[/color]

I don't know about fast food drive-throughs or bikes, but I recall a
bank who wouldn't server a customer that walked up to a drive-through
window on the notion that it wasn't safe to stand in line with a
bunch of cars.

Customer's problem was that only the drive though was open when he
was off work.