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A few weeks ago, Paul Fremantle of WSO2 told me, in a discussion on SOA and enterprise services buses, that IT changes are leveling the playing field for SMEs and larger companies. I was reminded o... More >
Everyone loves lists because they make great conversation starters. A recent Computerworld article by Don Tennant about an Aberdeen "list of the 100 most influential technology vendors -- software,... More >
Certain IT buzzwords bug me, and "agility" leads the list. The May 21 announcement by SAP's management is an example of how this word is abused. This May 27 announcement by Pervasive is a three-f... More >
A Web site called trainingzone.co.uk has pointed me to an IFS research study that should get you thinking about one of the key characteristics of your next generation of enterprise software -- am... More >
I doubt if the O ne Laptop per Child (OLPC) program itself is the driving force behind appliance technology for industrial purposes. But the OLPC educational program for children in lesser develope... More >
There's a tendency to think of IBM and Oracle, the JEE and open source communities, and academia and cloud computing when researching service-oriented architecture (SOA). But as some analysis I am ... More >
A few weeks ago, in the context of membership changes at the SOA Consortium , I opined that IT users need their own users' group. The issue is that most of the consortia and organizations in the en... More >
Eric Newcomer, chief technology officer at Iona, has an intriguing post up on his Iona blog this week. He says Back in the 90s, I was on a big project to standardize enterprise software...We often ... More >
I'll leave it to the day-job journalists to get the whole story after the press conference. And I'll comment about this event on my IT investment research site after the SEC documentation comes out (... More >
I am doing some research on service-oriented architecture (SOA) this month and turned to a guy who has been closely tied to SOA since "way back" when the concept, but not the term, was introduced as ... More >
There's a bit of a buzz this week on the enterprise software blogosphere about the implications of a down economy on the software industry. This sort of thinking gives IT managers a chance to update ... More >
If your company or organization employs between 100 and 1,000 employees, depending on industry, you are the most popular IT staffer or manager in the IT market. Of course, if your enterprise is on th... More >
At its creation in 2007, the SOA Consortium (SOAC) said that it planned to go out of business in 2010. To me, the closed-end concept was refreshing. I am no fan of vendor-dominated groups of any type... More >
One of the most familiar axioms of IT marketing relates to buzzwords. It goes like this: A buzzword peters out in the market at just about the same point in time when real instances of whatever the b... More >
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