Jacob Stoller

Articles by Jacob Stoller

Coming of age

Once upon a time, web services was expected to create a paradigm shift in computing. The phrase conjured images of computer programs spontaneously grabbing functionality from each other over the Web. That was then, a few years back. This is now, and a more practical approach has taken hold. Assisted by global standards and near universal industry buy-in, the technology has matured

Talking it up

“If you want to manage it, you have to define it,” says Luc LeBlanc who chairs the Web Services sub-group at PWGSC. LeBlanc has...

Muddling with middleware

Across the public sector, e-government initiatives are calling for an unprecedented level of cohesion between diverse IT systems. Integration middleware makes the task easier, but the kind of interoperability that would make government truly transparent has been elusive. Public sector organizations are finding that the real battle is in finding common ground between stakeholders and establishing standards for shared entities.

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Coming of age

Talking it up