The bit I'm not sure about in the registry/repository space is how people will find things. Having a "central" repository or even a federation sounds nice architecturally but the key is how will people discover things and understand what is supported and by whom. I've seen some companies create Repository administration or librarian roles and rapidly these pieces become ignored and more adhoc collaboration goes on.
Having control is a great thing, but the goal should be to get people to find stuff first, then worry about control second, all too often I've seen similar exercises fail because people put the control hat on and decide that the easiest thing is if no-one finds anything useful. On 07/02/07, Todd Biske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.>>
