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Kingsley Idehen's Blog -- cites Real-time White Paper by Vinod Khosla

Here is an great Real-Time Enterprise (RTE) strategic white paper by Vinod Khosla a highly respected industry veteran and VC.

Vinod's article (circa. 2002) covers the broad spectrum of business integration areas and issues that provided my architectural blueprint for Virtuoso 2.5 (circa. 1998; we are now at 3.5). Although Vinod doesn't explicitly describe a 'Universal Server' in his paper, there are common keywords and concept patterns (Virtualization, Information Base etc.) that demonstrate a common understanding of corporate integration pain points and suggested routes for pain alleviation.
There is a high probability that when you read this article you will have a clearer understanding of the reasoning behind the functionality and architecture of Virtuoso. Hopefully you will see why the shape and form of a new server format, is one that offers multi-protocol and multi-purpose server functionality.
I firmly believe that Enterprise Data & Information Integration, Application Logic Integration, and Business Process Integration can be implemented as part of a single product offering in the form of a server instance that speaks many protocols by coherently implementing a plethora of industry standards."

posted by david soul @ 26.12.04