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Middleware is Dead. Long Live Shared Services.

IT is continually and increasingly being pressured from the business world to justify the value it brings to the company given the huge investments it absorbs. Quite rightly so, and thankfully we are moving into a new era of how we think about technology systems, moving away from duplicating data and platforms to both cause the need for EAI and the problems and costs associated with its implementation. Designing to access, real-time shared services will eliminate this unnecessary step and simultaneously design IT to naturally reflect and enable the cross-company business processes it is intended for in the first place.

Apache Shared Modules in Delphi

Back in Issue 69 (May, 2001) of The Delphi Magazine in Apache Shared Modules, I looked at the Apache Web server running on Linux and how Kylix could be used to write CGI applications and also Apache shared modules or DSOs (the main thrust of the article). That was shortly after Kylix had been released, and discussed how to overcome a variety of problems, including the fact that the standard Apache binary distribution is not suitable for using shared modules.

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