Paul Lipton is an Advisor and Senior Architect in CA, Inc. where he leads the CA Industry Standards and Open Source Program in the Office of the CTO. Paul has been an architect and developer of enterprise systems for over 20 years. He serves on the Board of Directors of the DMTF and the Eclipse Foundation, and has participated in many other industry organizations such as OASIS and the W3C. Paul is a founding member of the CA Council for Technical Excellence where he chairs the Emerging Technology Committee and also leads a project focused on leveraging Web 2.0 to improve research collaboration. He is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and a Sun Java Champion. Paul is a highly sought-after author and speaker, and has shared his knowledge with appreciative audiences around the world covering topics such as industry standards, SOA, open source, technical innovation, enterprise architecture, social computing, virtualization, Web services, management/security, governance, autonomic computing, Web 2.0, and many other emerging technologies.
"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of
five." - Groucho Marx
People have begun to understand that a properly implemented SOA has the
potential to improve business agility and adaptability to changing business
conditions, but we're still suffering from at least one innate prejudice
common to IT folks. That prejudice comes, in part, from our own fascination
with the technology we use. Perhaps we need to view the goals and challenges
that SOA brings with the same simplicity that small children selling lemonade
from a box on the sidewalk have for at least children recognize that it's
neither the lemonade nor the stand that's the center of their business, but
the customer. Changing our natural biases as IT people to conform to this
busines... (more)
One day, Snow White decided to deploy a Web service. Her IT dwarves
immediately went to work and were pleasantly surprised to find how easy it
was to create the Web service using modern development tools. To Snow White's
development dwarves, it almost seemed like magic.
Since Snow White's cottage was a Java shop, they deployed the Web service in
their J2EE application server, but they cou... (more)
Mae West said, "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one
I've never tried before." But, sometimes, when choosing between two equally
appealing options, the best policy is to take both. WS-ResourceFramework and
WS-Transfer, two new specifications for accessing XML representations of
resources through Web Services have been announced. Although it's not
uncommon to find... (more)
Significant investments in the successful management and administration of
many critical business systems have had mixed success over the years. In a
new, more competitive age of regulation and globalization, SOA promises much
in terms of business agility and efficiency, but how do we maintain
visibility, control, and appropriate governance of this new and much more
highly distributed se... (more)
Father James Keller, the founder of a religious order called The Christophers
and a popular religious television and radio personality in his day, wrote an
amusing story about Mozart. He said, "A young man, just beginning the study
of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for
developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was
rather an a... (more)
Paul Lipton is an Advisor and Senior Architect in CA, Inc. where he leads the CA Industry Standards and Open Source Program in the Office of the CTO. Paul has been an architect and developer of enterprise systems for over 20 years. He serves on the Board of Directors of the DMTF and the Eclipse Foundation, and has participated in many other industry organizations such as OASIS and the W3C. Paul is a founding member of the CA Council for Technical Excellence where he chairs the Emerging Technology Committee and also leads a project focused on leveraging Web 2.0 to improve research collaboration. He is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and a Sun Java Champion. Paul is a highly sought-after author and speaker, and has shared his knowledge with appreciative audiences around the world covering topics such as industry standards, SOA, open source, technical innovation, enterprise architecture, social computing, virtualization, Web services, management/security, governance, autonomic computing, Web 2.0, and many other emerging technologies.
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