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May 30, 2008

SMEs: The Right and Wrong About a Short List of One

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 >

May 29, 2008

Why Infor Scores High in Enterprise-Software Technology Importance?

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 >

May 28, 2008

Why 'Agility' Leads the List of Enterprise Software Buzzwords that Bug Me

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 >

May 23, 2008

Memo to Enterprise Software Suppliers: Users Need Help

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 >

May 21, 2008

What Does OLPC Mean for Industry?

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 >

May 20, 2008

Microsoft Speaks SOA Too

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 >

May 19, 2008

The Enterprise Software Roundtable: Another Reason IT Users Need Their Own Group

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 >

May 15, 2008

SOA and the Software Factory

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 >

May 13, 2008

HP-EDS: What More Industry Consolidation Means for IT

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 >

May 9, 2008

Enterprise Service Bus: Marketing Hype or Key Component of SOA?

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 >

May 7, 2008

In Enterprise Software and Services, Down Times Can Be Good Times for IT Managers

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 >

May 5, 2008

Partnering for a New Generation of Enterprise Software in the Mid-Market

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 >

May 2, 2008

It's Time for an IT Users Group Run by Users

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 >

May 1, 2008

Screaming on Ahead (SOA) or Running out of Steam?

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 >