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A pessimistic approach towards SOA seems to prevail in some blogs. But these opinions strike me by surprise. In the industries I am working for - public sector, healthcare and Defense/ public security - SOA is predominant and you will find only rare examples of tenders where SOA is not highlighted as the guiding principle for the whole architecture. SAP's CTO Vishal Sikka has already provided the community with some very helpful insights concerning these discussions. I just want to add some points from an architect's point of view: From my point of view it is not the SOA approach itself which should be questioned but the way how we architects sometimes work on SOA. Some of the mistakes that are listed below I have encountered during my SOA projects. Others are based on discussions with other architects and decision makers inside and outside SAP, from customers and from partners. My intention is simple: I want to help to avoid these mistakes in the future and to strengthen the SOA approach which is for me without an alternative.

If you are on XP, Windows 7 isn't going to solve a lot of Vista's migration problems," says Brett Waldman, a research analyst for IDC. "Going from Vista to Windows 7 should be a much easier transition than XP to 7.

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An effective product vision ensures the success of SCRUM by guiding your team and aligning stakeholders and customers. Learn how to craft this all-important unifying product vision to succeed with Scrum!

Businesses across the country are searching for various ways to cut costs, while maintaining a robust, reliable and fast network infrastructure. Very often the key to success can be the research that goes into picking the correct data-center server solution brand. There are so many different solutions out there- how does a small business decide on one?

In a very direct way, cutting edge Ethernet technology is even starting to have a huge effect on how we view our economic outlook. The New York Stock Exchange recently tapped Juniper Networks, a large network hardware manufacturer, to upgrade their network.

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Chkdsk is a tool to check errors on the hard drive and to fix it. It can fix physical errors and also can recover data that is still readable. The use of check disk is best defined in the Microsoft help. Chkdsk can be run from windows, from command prompt

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As enterprise IT architects and software systems developers consider how to implement a comprehensive enterprise IT architecture for the coming years, many are considering using several industry architecture development frameworks, including The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF).