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Latest Articles from Steve Benfield
By Steve Benfield Solving complexity has been a continuing goal of application architects & developers since we started writing programs. While SOA techniques do a great job at standardizing the interface between systems and BPEL attempts to standardize the logic flow between services, they tend to brea... Feb. 27, 2006 08:00 AM EST Reads: 10,942 | By Steve Benfield Java and J2EE are at a crossroads - facing issues such as complexity and vendor lock-in. Where can you turn for the the productivity, performance, and ROI you've come to expect? Having entered the mainstream and taken hold in roughly 70% of enterprises, Java is the clear winner when it... Mar. 29, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,522 | By Steve Benfield I have a love/hate relationship with J2EE. I love the idea of standards that we can all use in our development to improve interoperability, ease integration issues, create a pool of skilled developers, etc. I hate the idea that I have to wait years for the standards to evolve and becom... Mar. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 30,485 Replies: 7 | By Steve Benfield This is a crucial time for Java and J2EE. Competing market and technical interests are moving Java in different directions. IT organizations are clamoring for ease of development, faster standards adoption, and stability. The application server market continues to consolidate enough so... Feb. 25, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,752 | By Steve Benfield IT development organizations tend to comprise Business Developers and/or Technology Elites, or a mixture of the two. The latter group basically has all they ever want or need from the Java community - tools, technologies, documentation, standards. But what about the Business Developers... Feb. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 21,268 | By Steve Benfield Hmm..according to my latest Monthly Hype magazine, Web services open a whole new vista of applications to the world. Applications that have been unseen or unimagined by mankind. Everyone is asking about the Web Services Killer App. What is the Killer App? Jul. 22, 2003 10:42 AM EDT Reads: 10,290 | By Steve Benfield Web services has promised many things. One primary promise has been the ability to piece applications together by snapping Web services together like so many Lego blocks. The output of one service becomes the input to the next and so on. May. 24, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,405 | By Steve Benfield So, what is going on in the world of Web services? I'm looking at a ton of analyst reports saying Web services won't be mainstream for another two or three years. One firm says that only 16% of companies will use Web services this year. I suppose it comes down to your definition of... Nov. 29, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,428 Replies: 1 | By Steve Benfield My hype meter has been revved up lately, and what has pegged it is Web services. Who is hyping up Web services? Hmm...Microsoft, Sun, IBM, HP, BEA, SilverStream, Ariba, BowStreet, webMethods...my aunt Judy. I'm expecting to see this e-mail soon: 'Quit your job and make $100,000 a year ... Apr. 1, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 14,858 | By Steve Benfield So, people keep asking me, 'Steve, how come you are such a wild and crazy guy?' OK, sorry, a late 70s flashback there. Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,801 | By Steve Benfield; Brad Cooley To put it bluntly, SilverStream 2.0 sets a new standard for large-scale Web development and deployment. We first looked at the product in June 1997 when they were the newest entrant in the application server market. It lacked many enterprise features such as scalability, fault toleranc... Mar. 1, 1999 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,737 Replies: 1 | By Steve Benfield; Brad Cooley As the push to Web-based computing gains momentum, the variety of available tools, standards, techniques and languages gets increasingly complex. In implementing a Web strategy, IS managers must make some hard decisions on issues that include: supported browsers, ISP selection, Web ser... Sep. 1, 1997 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,663 |
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Steve Benfield is CTO of Agentis Software. A technology marketeer and strategist with 20 years of software entreprenuerism experience, he is both a gifted writer and a technical visionary, a combination of qualities that made him the perfect choice of Editor-in-Chief for SYS-CON Media's inaugural publication 12 years ago, PowerBuilder Developer's Journal. Steve's proven ability to determine marketing and technology strategies that align with market needs led to successful stints at SilverStream, where he started as technology evangelist and ended as CTO, and at ClearNova where he was CTO.
