The Fabric of Judith Hurwitz (from the series: The IT Analyst Gallery)
If “forever” is the time I’ve been an IT Analyst, then I’ve known Judith forever. We first met at an IBM Analyst event in the 1990s, when Lou Gerstner had been drafted in to save the sinking ship – and we ran into each other regularly from then on. I used to write a column for DBMS magazine and Judith took it over in about 1995. She dropped out of the Analyst game for a while at the turn of the millennium, then dropped back in a few years later, forming Hurwitz and Associates, at about the time I established Baroudi Bloor in the US with Carol Baroudi. Baroudi Bloor merged with Hurwitz Associates in 2004.
Judith writes a blog, which you can find here. It was her idea to write a SOA book, which eventually led to our co-writing Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies, with Marcia Kaufman and Carol Baroudi. The book has been a runaway success and established Hurwitz and Associates as the lead analyst company for SOA.
This image comes from a photo taken at a presentation Judith gave in Boston last year. It has been given a fabric texture.
This is what I read from a Baroudi Bloor International white paper. Consider uniting the advantages of object databases combined with the advantages of relational databases:
- Good transactional performance
- Complex data management
- Ease of management
- Rapid development
- Flexible query capability
- Standard data access interface
- Suitability for business intelligence applications
This hybrid opens up the possibility of having a single database engine, with a single set of data definitions appropriate for all applications. Baroudi Bloor believes that we, the Industry, need the hybrid database.
This is what exactly what we have achieved and provided proof of it in a commercial project. Wish I could showcase our technology to someone who has idea of the potential of such a technology. Hoping you could be of help in taking this wish forward.