Office 2.0 Infrastructure Services
Friday, July 14th 2006 | Ismael Ghalimi
Amazon recently released Amazon SQS, a simple message queing service. It complements the equally simple, yet extremely effective Amazon S3 online storage service featured in this past article. This gives me the opportunity to start a list of infrastructure services that could be used to build Office 2.0 applications, following a suggestion made by my good friend Charlie Wood on the Enterprise Irregulars mailing list.
The following list, also available on this page, provides a set of infrastructure services for data storage and message queuing that can be used to build online applications. It focuses on services that require no programming, or expose a service-oriented API that could be used from Zero Code tools. As such, service providers offering PHP hosting do not qualify for example — and beside, making a list for them would be quite pointless…
The list is currently very limited, thereby demonstrating that the market for good Web services is rather limited or that I did not do my hoework well enough. My guess is that reality stands somewhere in between, and I invite you to make suggestions for additions to the list. The list was built using Dabble DB and can be accessed through the following JSON and RSS feeds.
Entry filed under: Office 2.0
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Ismael,
Do you think you could use Amazon SQS as part of your BPM toolset? It may be an easy way of leveraging Amazon’s infrastructure for a Web 2.0 type consumer-grade Workflow or BPM application.
Sanjay,
We could not use it as underlying messaging backbone, mainly because we would not get the required real-time capabilities, but we could definitely use it as an interface to some systems. We should build a demonstration using it in fact…
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