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RE: I disagree with this ~Naomi Deskroterakol 20.Dec.02 03:56 PM a Web browser Applications Development All ReleasesAll Platforms
If you look at IBM's portal strategy, it means that there is a central
webservice repository that connects to systems such as DB2, Domino, legacy,
others.
IBM's portal strategy, like most portal strategies, is tragically
backwards-facing. Central service repositories for web services are precisely
the wrong direction to look for solutions, as they have the inescapable
consequence of producing bottlenecks and single points of failure.
So-called "portlets" are glorified encapsulation of html pages. Well guess
what? I can do the same thing with an <IFRAME> tag and a splash of CSS. There
is absolutely nothing about a portal system that is transaction-oriented. Even
individual user customizations settings can be stored as easily in text files,
NSFs or DB2 databases.
I'm always fascinated when people propose working with 15 different
technologies and tying them together with some tool. Such an approach never
works, even if all the tools are from the same vendor. On the rare occassions
that these systems operate for some amount of time, it is in the most fragile
of states, requiring continuous monitoring by an army of technicians.
Wanna know the value of an integrated system? When you get messaging,
directory, content management, workflow, XML services, rich data storage and
security on a single clusterable box that runs on 8 different OS platforms, is
there really much more to be said?
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