Rickerism

Last week, BPEL4People was formally moved to OASIS. BPEL4People is the right idea, but the wrong execution. There must be a way to integrate people into business processes, but the specification presented to fulfill this goal is far too complicated.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides a breakthrough in enterprise and trans-enterprise integration. SOA has so far […]

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Consciously or unconsciously, engineers approach their work with the idea of a system. The typical engineer thinks in terms of systems. In his mind, the engineer creates a boundary between the items he is working on and the rest of the universe. The boundary defines the system. He then attempts to optimize the items within […]

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