Life as a service; The cloud as my PA
In my previous blog I starting comparing Zen and enterprise architecture. I will definitely continue this stream in weeks to come. However, a recent comment on twitter concerning "Integration as a Service" triggered some dormant desires on a closer integration of services, that would truly support my life as an individual. At the moment, however, we suffer from scattered devices , scattered interfaces and scattered data . Let me elaborate. Scattered devices A few months ago, Microsoft's Steve Balmer stated that our PC Is Just One of Three Screens . More specifically: Now it's no longer just about the desktop but really a broader vision," Ballmer said, adding later: "Microsoft is transforming what Windows is, from a PC OS to a connected platform; an experience that spans the PC, the phone, the TV and the cloud." This certainly is what one would expect in the age of cloud computing. As a Mac user I'll forgive him the reference to a PC rather th