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Design for Production Meets the Application Delivery Process

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:00:00 EST

An anecdote that an engineer shared with me recently reminded me of a long-standing concept in manufacturing, design for production (DFP). The concept has to do with evaluating how a given operation - production line, supply chain, or an entire factory - is performing.

Are You Ready to Run with the IT Run Book?

Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

Any developer or IT organization can attest to the fact that flawless application development does not ensure flawless deployment when the time comes to roll the application out across a WebLogic application server. Successful deployment requires that application configurations in the IT infrastructure stack be correctly dialed for the application to run properly.

WebSphere Migration

Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:00:00 EDT

In the coming months, hundreds of corporations will migrate thousands of applications from the WebSphere 4.x platform to WebSphere 5.0. The reasons for doing so are both many and compelling, not the least of which is that support for the WebSphere 4.x platform will cease to exist in a matter of months.