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. Oct. 28, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,372 |
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 ca... Jun. 4, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,302 |
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. Dec. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,768 Replies: 2 |
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? Oct. 27, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 20,111 Replies: 1 |
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 h... Aug. 19, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,457 Replies: 1 |







Rickland Hollar is a senior applications architect with the Central Intelligence Agency with over 30 years of experience in the industry. The views expressed in this article are his own and not necessarily those of the Agency. Prior to joining the CIA, he was president of a Virginia-based software development firm.


















