In an interview, Victoria Livschitz touches on a problem that has been bothering me for some time. Notably, "The sequence of the routine itself -- what comes before what under what conditions based on what causality -- simply has no meaningful representation in OO, because OO has no concept of sequencing, or state, or cause."
When evaluating software written by prototypical startups, it's good to measure the stability of that company. Turns out, using LinkedIn, you can see where a member is working currently, and where they were working before.
Obviously, in any industry, a given vendor will have strengths and weaknesses compared to her competitors. The BPM space being no different seems to have two opposing ends. Back-end integration and human-to-human workflow, which are met in the middle with a process language.
MathPad is a nice calculator and plotting tool. It just replaced Calculator on my dock.
Analysis of Orchestration Space enumerates the players in the emerging service choreography or orchestration space. Given that all these vendors will need to answer the orchestration question, thanks to standards, their strengths are complementary and can be viewed as layers delineated by their rate of change.
I'm now using User Mode Linux to rapidly build a staging environment for my Sonic broker/esb network which includes many message routing nodes and SSL over the 'WAN'. It will be a nearly complete mirror image of my production environment allowing me to push my configuration changes from staging to production without any intermediate modifications (domain names, certificates, jdbc connection strings, etc).
Corticon is a business rule engine that purports to be usable by those on the business side of the fence.
OracleEditor.php, an Oracle Record Browser and Editor in a single PHP script is just that. Promising to be much easier than getting Excel to attach to a remote Oracle instance.
