{"id":132,"date":"2006-02-21T16:06:12","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T23:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2006-02-21T16:06:12","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T23:06:12","slug":"five-tough-questions-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/02\/21\/five-tough-questions-ha\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Tough Questions, HA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esbcon.com\">online webinar on ESB <\/a>(Enterprise Service Bus) products.  The email claims to be a &#8220;tough as nails&#8221; get to the details type of webinar (usually good in my mind).  They even listed the five tough questions they&#8217;re gonna grill the vendors with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>The Five Tough ESB Questions Will Get Answered!<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How do ESB architectures work with existing infrastructures<\/li>\n<li>What are ESB&rsquo;s most popular features<\/li>\n<li>Can you show us some real-world user cases<\/li>\n<li>Please tell us about ESB Best Practices<\/li>\n<li>How are ESBs helping define SOA roadmaps for many firms<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What a bunch of softballs!  Tough Questions yeah right!<\/p>\n<p>My favorite is number 2.  That&#8217;s right, we&#8217;re going to grill you!  What is your biggest selling point and why do users just LOVE your product.  Puhhhlease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email for an online webinar on ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) products. The email claims to be a &#8220;tough as nails&#8221; get to the details type of webinar (usually good in my mind). They even listed the five tough questions they&#8217;re gonna grill the vendors with: The Five Tough ESB Questions Will Get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}