![](\"\/images\/diff.jpg\")
\n\nSage advice<\/a>\nfrom Patrick Logan;<\/p>\n\n On the upside, when most every other vendor is hocking snake oil,\ndifferentiation from those vendors isn’t hard. On the downside,\nas Patrick points out, mature products like Apache are the competition.<\/p>\n\n Of course, there’s always many ways forward. Fair competition\nbeing one (build a better Web-server\/CMS\/router\/whatever..),\nsubversion<\/a>,\nanother. But lots of other possibilities in between.<\/p>\n\n I’m also reminded of a\nprediction<\/a>\nI made about three years ago;<\/p>\n\n Ok, so my timing’s off (as usual), but the message seems even more\npertinent after the recent discussions; content management is<\/em>\nenterprise integration.<\/p>\n\n Tags:\nsoa<\/a>,\nrest<\/a>,\nweb<\/a>,\nwebservices<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sage advice from Patrick Logan; Simple dynamic programming languages and simple dynamic coordination languages are winning. Vendors will have to differentiate themselves on something more than wizards that mask complexity. On the upside, when most every other vendor is hocking snake oil, differentiation from those vendors isn’t hard. On the downside, as Patrick points out, […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nSimple dynamic programming languages and simple dynamic coordination languages are winning. Vendors will have to differentiate themselves on something more than wizards that mask complexity.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nBy the end of 2005, IBM’s content management software division will have absorbed their enterprise software group\n<\/blockquote>\n\n