EAI and ETL. (Response Time).

Enterprise Systems Journal, November, 2002 by Humpf, James J.

I want to compliment Stephen Swoyer on his even-handed treatment of the EAI versus ETL issue in the August 2002 issue ("Application Integration: Mix and Match.")

I agree with his basic message that the most important questions for an organization to answer are: What are my integration needs? What is available to meet them? And what tool or tools should I use to meet these needs, given the particulars of my situation?

All too often, technical publications and vendors focus on the trees by playing up the differences between classes of tools in this area. David S. Linthicum's book, Enterprise Application Integration, offers an excellent view of the integration forest. I highly recommend it as an antidote to the hype that surrounds many articles on EAI...

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