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Bruce Silver, well known BPM analyst, has a new blog. Right now, it's mostly some entries that he originally posted on IT Redux, but I missed some of them the first time around, so it was good reading. Of note, he posts a followup to his post about the BEA/Fuego merger in which he responds to my rebuttal. In quick response to a technical question he raises: yes, AquaLogicBPM is a native BPEL engine. It can execute BPEL natively without requiring any conversation back and forth to any other format.

I also found his response to Edwin Khodabakchian, from Oracle, interesting. (By the way, as an example of how small the world is, I knew Edwin back when he was the manager for Netscape's Process Manager product.) I think it's another example of how far the BPEL standard has to go before it's really a good standard for business process. As I said before, I have great hopes for BPEL. It's the best hope we have for a portable standard for service orchestration. But right now, I worry that people have unrealistic expectations.

Just this week I had a line of business analyst asking me about about AquaLogicBPM's BPEL support. After I demo'ed AquaLogic Studio's BPEL functionality they started asking me "what about roles", "what about global activities", "what about people" and I had to explain to the the big long story about BPEL4WS 1.1, WS-BPEL 2.0, and BPEL4People. Their response was basically, "I can't believe that IT told us that BPEL was the solution we were looking for. We're primarily interested in human to human modeling." It was a classic example of using the wrong tool for the wrong job because of "management by magazine".

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