David Galbraith writes:
Phil Wainewright has a very thorough and thoughtful piece on Loosely Coupled. Phil looks at Webmethods' recent acquisitions within the broader context of what happens when enterprise software all starts to communicate through standardized web services based API's, rendering a whole industry (EAI) obsolete.Its an interesting mirror of what is happening at a grass roots level with syndicated content and standardized API's for weblog style publishing systems. RSS aggregators beware - the future is not in aggregating or aggregation tools, but services building value-add on top.
GB: RSS aggregators beware - the future is not in aggregating or aggregation tools, but services building value-add on top.
RJ: The last sentence needs some further thinking.
I think David's comment should be seen in the context of Phil's previous comments:
In a service oriented architecture, you don't view raw data, you call up a service that presents you a slice of information. The new buzzword for information presented in this way is a 'service view'... We'll not only be talking about service views a lot, we'll also be looking at them, creating them, often cursing them. Service views are here to stay.
In this context I read David's comment as one about data versus information: RSS only solves the data problem but what I really need and want is information: data sorted, filtered, scored, selected, whatever to my requirements and needs.