In the process of researching an upcoming BPM Viewpoint on business process management standards (tentatively scheduled for December 10 but always subjects to events in the market), I ran across this great timely article by John Footen.
At least I think it's timely: Does the date notation on the article--'12-3-2008'--mean December 3rd or March 12th? I don't know; there's no standard for that. Or are there multiple standards?
Well that's Footen's point. He sounds like a man after my own heart when it comes to standards. Better yet he quotes Andres S. Tannenbaum saying,
"The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."
(Tannenbaum, for you IT historians, is better known as the Dutch college professor who was falsely accused of being the real "father of Linux." Tannenbaum explains the story here, vehemently denying the accusation because he didn't think the "first version of Linux" was that good.)
Anyways, by popular demand but with great trepidation and hopefully a light touch, I am going to wade into the great BPEL vs. BPMN discussion that I first alerted you to back on October 23. If you want to weigh in with your two-cents on BPEL vs. BPMN, for me to use in writing my two cents worth on the subject, give me a call or send me an email at dennis@ebizq.net.
-- Dennis Byron
To me "BPMN vs. BPEL" sound like "UML vs. Java".
According to google trends bpel is decreasing in popularity of searches while bpmn is increasing.