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A friend and colleague who is also a security guru and much better qualified than me and who admits that he is not a huge fan of enterprise architecture frameworks doesn’t think that “enterprise architecture” is on a completely solid footing; he points out that it’s a major business for Gartner, following their takeover of Meta Group.
He asks “Anton, you’re a systems engineer and hence familiar with large-scale modelling and design: what’s your take on the widespread use of ‘architecture’? Is it over-egging the pudding?”
Probably.
Its certainly is a heavily abused term. One that has been hijacked by marketing and owes more to articles in glossy magazines than engineering substance. Read the rest of this entry »