Douglas Barry

Douglas Barry is the Principal of Barry & Associates, Inc., which he founded in 1992. Mr. Barry specializes in enterprise architecture with an emphasis in service-oriented architecture, database systems, and object technology, His practice is aimed at accelerating your understanding and use of software technology. He is an author, columnist, guest lecturer, international speaker, and mentor.

Mr. Barry has consulted to over 80 companies operating in the areas of finance, stock trading, computer-aided design, telecommunications, electronic catalogs, software development, manufacturing, and military applications. He has written or edited five books and was the series editor for the The Savvy Manager's Guides, published by Morgan Kaufmann. Doug has written over 40 magazine columns or articles and published over 400 pages of online articles at www.service-architecture.com/articles/. His most recent book is Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures: The Savvy Manager's Guide.

For more by Douglas Barry, see:

• Incremental SOA: Facing Reality, Coping with Change, and Improving Your Chance of Success
• Maintaining Perspective on What Is Really New About SOA
• Iridium Satellite Collision in Space
• Getting Ready for a Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture
• XML Data Server Architectures
• All the ODBMS News That's Fit to Print? (You May Be Missing Something)
• Object Databases in Use: The Facts