Latest News from Rickland Hollar

Web Services + the Grid = Prime Time

Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Web services and the Grid are converging! The prospect of grid-based, commodity computers delivering run anywhere, anytime Web services across the Internet has hype-o-meters showing a speedy rise and marketing departments gearing up everywhere.

Who's Master of Your Domain?

Fri, 04 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

W.C. Fields once said, 'The practice of keyhole-listening is usually confined to hotels and boarding houses. It is absolutely indefensible to stoop so low. If the transom is not ajar, remember there are plenty of other rooms in the building.' Hackers on the Web can take a similarly cavalier attitude - surfing from site to site until they find one whose 'transoms are ajar.' The question for you is whether yours are among them.

Will Standards Turn Portals into Commodities? - Two approaches that work

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:00 EST

As a senior architect I always have a weather eye on evolving technologies in order to answer questions on how decisions made today will affect applications three to five years into the future.

SOAP's Two Messaging Styles

Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:00:00 EST

To RPC, or not to RPC: that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the control and dependency of coupling, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them?

Moving Toward the Zero Latency Enterprise

Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:00:00 EDT

The Internet makes it possible to deliver information almost instantaneously - anytime, anywhere - and is redefining the traditional boundaries around organizations and their IT systems. The Internet has turned buyers into sellers, sellers into buyers, and set new expectations for how services should be delivered. These expectations raise the bar for applications in terms of their need for interconnectivity and responsiveness.