Nick Simha's Blog

A few weeks ago I ran into some old colleagues who are now working for a startup that has developed a tool to find bugs in C code. Yes, C - remember that programming language which was supposed to have become obsolete by now? What was even more surprising was that there are a lot of new projects starting in C as well. This shows that the world is a very heterogeneous place; and for a middleware solution to be successful it not only has to support the existing systems in place but also enable the developers and other technical staff there leverage their existing skills vs. forcing them to learn yet another language or set of APIs. That is what is so exciting about SOA and Web services, you can continue to work in your environment and it is the job of the service infrastructure like BEA's AquaLogic to make it all work together. Beacuse in the world of IT, there are no ugly babies.....