Number one in a series on visual orchestration systems
February 12th, 2008 by Alex Neihaus
This is a big moment for me…if not for you. This is the first post on our brand-spankin’ new blog. And I’m all excited about the possibilities.
I’ve been involved with a number of blogs for other companies over the last year or two. And I’ve discovered that a surprising number of people come back to read the first post. A first post therefore needs a little of the mixture of celebration and relief people feel when that new ocean liner actually launches when the woman (always a female for some reason) breaks the bottle of champagne over its bow. Or maybe it’s just me being traditional, but it seems all new blogs that are any good start with a bit of …ahem… manifesto.
So, herewith our objectives. We hope this blog will be informative and in the words of some people I recently worked with, cheeky. We already are showing a little cheek (sorry, it starts right away) by naming this blog "VOSibilities." The pun on visual orchestration systems and the word "possibilities" is courtesy of our own Victor Chan.
Let me say for the first time something we’ll be saying repeatedly: we believe strongly that visual orchestration systems will revolutionize the way project teams design, develop, test, deploy and maintain composite applications. We seek nothing less than mass adoption of services-based applications, all done in an open, standards-based way. So, VOS is the category, VOS is the means, VOS is the objective…VOS is the answer.
But it’s the answer to what, exactly? It’s the answer to app dev miasma. That big, dark, noxious cloud of proprietary this and that, the uncertainty of being able to leverage skills and the inability to effectively absorb technology in a way that makes developing composite applications not just fast and efficient, but fun.
And because good technology is always fun, we’re gonna have a lot of it here. We’re going to get loud, we’re going to get visceral and we’re going to say what we think.
So, if you found this post before there was anything else on the blog, thank you. If you are reading it to wonder who the heck these loudmouths are, thank you. If you are one of the competitors I intend to skewer regularly here, a special thank you. And remember…it’s all in the name of open, direct debate.
This is just the first of many times we’ll get to talk to each other.
