Barry,

This is the kind of paper I have not seen in ages- very nice. I have only received it an hour ago (I love Twitter), but began reading it right away. In the coming weeks I will respond to your paper extensively on my blog (off course I will link it here) because it deserves attention.

Right from the bat;

- the big strenght of your model seems to be focussed on the informational architecture. It's got great appeal and it's seems to be filling a void that has not been addressed today. This could be the CIO's communication's toolkit.

- I have doubts about your business drivers; I am just not comfortable with claiming that business nowadays all want real time stuff, unstructured information, etc....These changed business incentives result in new Postulates. But I still feel the old ones you mentioned are still viable....the new ones might be an evolution, not a revolution. This might also be a cultural thing between the US and EU.......need to read and think some more.

- I have doubts whether this new architecture changes the underlying application architecture dramatically in the years to come. Reading your paper I only have read some consolidation between DWH and marts with new technology like Teradata. I do believe however that the combination of appliances, self service tooling, cloud computing and many more have a potential to truelly become 'distruptive'...

- My doubts are especially fueled by my scepticim regarding the SOA promise, the federated approach promise, the argument that the operational landscape has been rationalized because we now have applications from Oracle, SAP or Siebel (I do not believe this to be a major driver in your new architecture - I think it's even vice versa - we seem to disagree on this point).

- I think the majority of organizations still do not have the maturity level you seem to take for granted (?) A lot of companies are still in the informational stone age....There next step is very modest, very simple and with a potential huge value.

I will have to read your paper more accurate, but let it be said that I find it very good reading material. Will keep you posted.

Kind regards,

Ronald Damhof

Thanks for the input, Ronald, and for taking the time to read the paper!

I appreciate your doubts and scepticism about many aspects of IT today - we've seen much hype and confusion - but my aim is to stimulate \"out of the box\" thinking on some of these issues.  DW (and the overall IT enterprise architecture) as it exists today is somewhat rickety, to say the least.  I believe we need to examine the underlying value of all of the technologies, however much over-hyped and try to extract the real value from them.  I well remember the doubts and scepticism about the promise of relational databases in the '80s, and just look how far we've come!

I look forward to your further comments.

Barry.