I read Ted Newards’ blog regurarly and appreciate his insight. In addition to beeing a known and respected authority within the Java community, he also has a lot of .NET books under his belt. I found a .NET rocks session where he discusses with Mark Pollack and Don Box about the future of Java and .NET. Worth a listen.
Today I also stumbled upon his inteview in Java Hispano. I found this quote that made me think about the SOA rant from Frans Bouma:
Ted Neward on open integration and standards significance:
The problem I have with this view is that we’ve seen a lot of efforts every so often to try and “level the playing field” in the middleware space, and they all seem to follow the same pattern: widespread excitement about the standards, all sorts of vendors (large and small) claiming adherence to the standard, and lots of media hype about how this new standard will make everything integratable with everything else. Then, slowly over time, as people start developing against those standards, they find holes or areas where a particular vendor does one thing better than the others.
Read the full interview for the whole context, it’s a good one. 🙂