Here’s a great offer for those of you in the IT community that couldn’t make it to Davos this week. Sign up for the World Innovation Forum in New York City in May. It costs $2,800 for two da... More >
I met up with Atul Saini, CEO of Fiorano Software , on Jan. 21 and as usual it was a no-holds-barred view of the state of the middleware market. And I'm only going to repeat some of the milder comme... More >
Don’t you love that headline? It’s from an otherwise straight piece of reporting on the IDG News Service picked up by multiple IDG publications, CIO.com in this case. (Truth in advertising: I wor... More >
On January 19, I said Enterprise 2.0 was alive and well if you — as I do — define Enterprise 2.0 as the combination of ERP and social-computing software . I noted that: “Twenty years ago we tried to... More >
Talk about not getting the concept. And how un-green can you get? Some organization is running an event called the Cloud Computing Expo in New York in April. As you would expect, registrants... More >
As I posted here on Jan. 16, the Computerworld article reporting that SpikeSource’s SuiteTwo was being discontinued segued into a report on the failure of Enterprise 2.0. Maybe it’s just the time... More >
The Jan. 8 Computerworld article reporting that SpikeSource offering SuiteTwo, announced in 2006, was being discontinued should remind you that the term "suite" can be misleading. Different ... More >
During the week of Jan. 12, IT Business Edge posted a series I wrote about service-oriented architecture (SOA). I think it is only coincidental that during the week of Jan. 5 Anne Thomas Mane... More >
Steve Ballmer spoke at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Jan. 7, “taking over the baton from Bill Gates,” according to the CES show organizer. From an IT/enterprise-software point of vie... More >
Charlie Rose, whose United States Public Broadcasting System (PBS) TV show is described as a broadcast that “engages America's best thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business le... More >
I am well aware from my enterprise software market research that IBM still realizes about 1 percent of its revenue from IT departments that continue to depend on and even rhapsodize over the about-to... More >
Two months ago, the day after the 2008 U.S. election, I covered a partially IT-related meeting at the National Press Club in which the Republican and Democratic party chairmen Monday-morning-quarter... More >
In a recent blog post , I asked you to suggest some IT and enterprise software claims you would like me to look into (send me an e-mail or post a comment to get on the list). One of the first questi... More >

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