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Public revenge. #1 in Germany’s mainstream music-charts is “Der Steuersong”, performed by an imitator of Gerhard Schröder (Video links 1 2). “You elected me, now you won’t get rid of me, we’ll raise the taxes and get all money out of your pockets that we can.” The Schröder administration will raise taxes and compulsory social insurances fees across the board to counter a “sudden” dramatic drop in tax income for 2002/2003 (>€30bn) that they claim didn’t know about before...

Power = Work / Time .NET Remoting performs as well as or better than DCOM? Binary performs better than XML? A Porsche 911 performs better than a Freightliner Truck? Yes. No. “Performance” is an abused term. It’s too often used as a synonym for “speed” and mostly in a completely unqualified and unquantified context. Performance belongs on the left side of  power = work/time. In contrast, “speed” is simply operations/time. Difference: “operations” is about crunching machine code instructions, “work” is about...

Mission accomplished. :-D Ingo Rammer is now an Enterprise Services guy. We had a very interesting discussion at a conference last week and I explained some additional Enterprise Services details to Ingo for which I had no room in my book. We also talked a bit about the results of my analysis of the COM+ patent and I guess that may have sparked Ingo’s wish to be able to get at those internals and to be able to extend the “unmanaged context”. My impression is that...

Oops. Gotta be careful.

The most interesting aspect of service-oriented architectures is that they have potentially unlimited nesting. A full-blown SOA solution is just a simple service to others.