…so one morning this dog starts to sing and, throughout the day, demonstrates his repertoire of folksy classics. The dog’s owner grows more and more excited and that eveing at a neighborhood bar, he boasts to anyone and everyone who will listen that his amazing pet can sing! Everyone digested the news with skepticism and doubt.
Determined to prove his claim, the next evening he drags the dog to the bar, quiets the crowd and encourages the dog to sing. The dog does sing and the two are promptly thrown out and told to never come back. The dog was way off key and sounded like shit.
Saw a bit of this when Ora 10g RAC came out … some co-workers were so excited that they could parallelized queries across the interconnects to multiple LINUX boxes that they ignored the fact it was slow and did not work well.
The latest technology this seems to is the new generation of integration tools – I’ll call them EAI tools though many will take issue with this lable – while I’ve seen tools like WebMethods work to support very specifc solutions, the notion that it is a general purpose enterprise swiss army knife for integration is bunk. Please comment, especially if you have first hand knowlege of even one deployment that met expectations and was on or under budget!
