The Y2K2 Crunch Factor!

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The Y2K2 Crunch Factor!

by Andre Leclerc

February 28, 2002


In my last article, I made some predictions about technology trends for this year. One of my predictions was the rise of Web services. Unless you have sand in your ears (from having your head buried deeply somewhere on the beach), you have heard some of the hype about Web services and the miraculous cure this technology will bring to your project. A recent article even predicted that Web services are the killer app that will replace EAI. (If you have not heard of EAI, then it may be better to return to the beach and cover the rest of your body or change careers and open a burger stand on the beach.)

I can just imagine those EAI product vendors running for the hills or jumping through the windows. But wait! Is there any reality to this prediction? Don't sell your Mercator stock yet! Can Web services really replace or displace EAI? Not likely! That is like saying that satellite radio will put regular radio out of business. That sort of radical prediction is more a knee-jerk reaction than a prediction based on facts.

The very term Enterprise Application Integration implies a wide range of products from screen scrappers, which emulate screen and keyboard interaction at the bottom end, to a complex and integrated set of adapters and access software for disparate and heterogeneous software packages.



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