11.02.06

IBM in Smack Down With Microsoft

Posted in General Rant at 6:23 am by Administrator

IBM has announced that it’s going to release a tool that will help people use SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) products easily. Oh yeah, and they’re also working with their partner, Mainstay, to make a tool to convert from Visual Basic 6 to Java.

No, really, they did!

IBM. “Big Blue.” The mainframe guys. You know – Lotus Notes, first personal computer – those guys.

Sounds like they’re going into the “easy” realm? SOA for the rest of us? Ummmm… dunno, it’s not out yet (due by end of 2006 – or so they say). BUT, if the name is any indication of the “easy” part – it’s NOT going to be easy: the name is “Lotus Expeditor”.

Really. Not Kidding.

A) Lotus = dead spreadsheet that they tried to turn into a “platform” in the early 90’s – before something we like to call “the Internet”

B) ex‧pe‧dit‧erspan>  /ˈɛkspɪˌdaɪg class=”luna-Img” xsrc=”http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png” alt=”" border=”0″>təran class=”prondelim”>/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[ek-spi-dahy-terspan>an class="prondelim">] –noun a person or thing that expedites something, esp. one employed to move shipments on schedule, as for a railroad.

They are marketing this thing as an alternative to .Net – and they will have a mobile client as well called “Lotus Mobile Connect”. Better name than “Expeditor” – but really – guys! Less meetings on “naming stuff.” Just go with the name the intern suggests…

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