One thing that I've blogged about is whether or not the whole
registry/repository arena will bloom (?) into the broader area of
metadata management, which would then start to intrude on areas such
as the Configuration Management Database. It even creates the
possibility that Microsoft's answer to all of this would be something
rooted in Active Directory technology.
What's everyone's thoughts? Possibility? Is it a natural extension
of the market, or is this a big stretch?
-tb
On Feb 7, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Gervas Douglas wrote:
Looking forward this year, is there anything we should look for in
the vendor landscape?
Manes: Microsoft doesn't really have a registry today. Well,
actually they do. They provide one free of charge as part of the
Windows server, but it's what gave UDDI a bad name. It's a bare
bones implementation of UDDI version 2 and nobody in their right
mind should ever consider using it as a real registry. To date,
Microsoft hasn't been unwilling to give me any information about
future plans they might have in terms of registry/repository
components, but my guess is at some point they're going to do
something.
Then SAP hasn't really come out with a cohesive registry/
repository. Actually, let me say this, they've got way too many
registry/repositories, but they haven't come out with a good,
understandable strategy regarding SOA governance. They do have a
governance/risk management solution. They call it GRC, governance,
risk management, compliance. But that's not SOA governance.
So we still don't know what SAP is going to do. And we still don't
know what Microsoft's going to do.>>
