GOV IT
Strategic IT for Government
March 27, 2004

Who should govern the Net?. A U.N. summit ends with a consensus that developing countries must have more influence on the way the Internet is run, but conclusions about what should be done are vague. [CNET News.com]
2:01:00 PM    

The Firefox opportunity.
The future of "great Windows applications," we're told, lies with Longhorn's next-generation presentation subsystem, Avalon, which will reboot software development sometime in the latter half of this decade. Of course, even Microsoft can't wait until then. Consider InfoPath. It's a great Windows application and a rich Internet client that had to ship in 2003. Its foundation is none other than Internet Explorer -- or rather, the suite of components and Internet standards on which Internet Explorer depends. Could InfoPath have been built on a Mozilla foundation instead? You bet. And the result wouldn't just be a great Windows application. It would be a great application, period. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]
After I wrote this column, I checked out an interesting new application that I wish had been built on a Mozilla foundation: Onfolio. You can't fault Onfolio's creator, J.J. Allaire, for targeting the overwhelming majority platform: IE/Win. Of course as a .NET app, Onfolio targets a minority within that majority. We live in interesting times! ... [Jon's Radio]
12:48:08 PM    

Microsoft to Offer Blog Search Tool. Mercury News: Microsoft plans search site for Weblogs. Microsoft became the first big Internet company Friday to say that it would create a special search Web site just for Weblogs. The company said MSN Blogbot will debut in the first half of the year, along with MSN Newsbot, a search site devoted to news. Another Microsoft "innovation" that's already been invented -- see, for example Technorati and Feedster -- but overall I'm glad to see the big guys getting behind blogging as a form ... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
12:41:10 PM    

Utah's Enterprise Architecture.

In an attempt to diagram Utah's enterprise architecture, we can look at the overall architecture like this:

Each of the layers can easily be broken down into a more detailed look.  For example, the business layer looks something like this:

The application layer at the enterprise level is comprised of a large suite of applications that cut across the entire enterprise:

These applications are built on a data and infrastructure layer that reside mainly in two central data centers, a primary and alternate site.  The alternate site was built with the concept of redundancy and business recovery in mind and is geographically remote from the central data center.  A robust, redundant wide area network connects the two centers with network users / state facilities.  Here is a look at the data layer:

Finally, the technical infrastructure looks something like this:

All of these resources which extend across the enterprise provide a foundation upon which we can build (and have built to some extent) an extensive set of user applications using a service oriented architectural model to integrate where necessary, data and services in boundless ways, particularly as we combine enterprise level data and services with the abundance of data that reside at the agency level.  This will drive us to integrated government (igov).

thanks to Bob Woolley for help with strategic design

[David Fletcher: Utah Government]
8:23:45 AM    

PluggedIn: RSS Readers Offer New Ways to Read the Web (Reuters). Reuters - Noticed those little orange boxes on the Web lately with the letters "XML?" [Yahoo! News - Technology]
8:17:44 AM    





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