Our 'on demand' world

The weekend's well and truly over once more in Australia (and NZ and lots
of other places for that matter)... it's Monday as I post this (remotely,
as it happens - we'll see what date it receives on the blog!)... don't
worry, you'll catch up soon enough. I realised on the weekend that my kids
(and our pet cat) already live in IBM's 'On demand' world. Apart from some
natural barriers to delivery (like the occasional parental "no!") their
world is a seamless delivery platform that loves, entertains, feeds,
shelters and transports them as needed - on time, almost every time. Most
of us can probably relate to that.

In fact it's a SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) world as well. The key
service providers have their defined roles and are plugged in as needed.
Need transport? We have devices and (literally!) drivers fully equipped and
programmed with just the right resources available at the right time. Need
food? We have our regular scheduled processes, overlaid with additional
outsourced services as required. Need I go on?

Of course it's not perfect - as I said, we do say "no" sometimes. But as a
model for 24x7 service delivery - and there are infinite variations on the
basic design - it isn't a bad one. I just need another weekend to recover!

Cheers

Rob.