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As I promised in an Oct. 26 blog post , I am trying to get more background on the Associated Press (AP) story dated Oct. 24 that whitehouse.gov has changed its underlying content management softwa... More >
I know you all know enough to ignore the PR boilerplate claim that comes at the end of every press release and often gets picked up by rookie journalists or lazy bloggers that don’t know any better. ... More >
It has been 10 years since IDC analysts Ed Acly, Steve Garone, Brian McDonough, Henry Morris, Jacque Sweeney and I reviewed then-current enterprise software market dynamics holistically [from the per... More >
There’s a strange Associated Press story floating as of Saturday, Oct. 24 about the White House Web site, and how it has been redeveloped from an information technology point of view. The story says ... More >
Pierre Fricke is Red Hat’s director of product line management for SOA products, and therefore—by extension—the guy leading the infrastructure enterprise software company into business process manage... More >
I bought my wife a subscription to Good Housekeeping for Christmas last year. This was not a comment on her housekeeping skills, which are massive. She asked me to give her the magazine for Christmas... More >
Back on June 3, I protested the fact that so many bloggers were putting Google Wave on some pedestal of previously unheard-of innovation unlike that provided in enterprise software (see Is an Enterp... More >
I last interviewed Jan Baan, founder and CEO of the business process management (BPM) software provider, and an early ERP-era hall of famer , in June 2008. In early October 2009, I caught up with Jan... More >
The next time you hear the voiceover on an Apple iPhone ad say, “There’s an app for that,” remember that there are also two, three, or more application programming interfaces (APIs) for each of those... More >
Roger Sessions began a useful process Sept. 28 at his blog on the subject of IT project failures . On Oct. 2, I commented on his post (see Taking the Trillion-Dollar Figures out of the Costs of IT ... More >
I had a great conversation last week with Jan Baan over the phone from my base on Cape Cod. It was about the then-just concluded annual user group meeting of Baan’s latest venture, Cordys. The Cordy... More >
In the latest chapter of the decade-old bureaucratic battle between the European Union (EU) and Microsoft, the October 7 Microsoft “browser ballot proposal,” is getting all the IT- and mainstream-me... More >
I recently caught up with Alex Neihaus, VP of marketing at Active Endpoints, and Active Endpoints' CTO Michael Rowley to hear about the recently announced ActiveVOS 7.0 business process management (... More >
On the traditional opening day of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first Monday in October, a legal-related IT posting seems appropriate. But take this opinion for what it's worth: The sum total of... More >
There were two highly visible blog posts during the week of September 28 on the cost of IT failures to the geo-economy. But just as all politics is local, even in geopolitics (see President Obama's w... More >
With the 2007-2009 buzz about cloud computing, desktop and other types of virtualization, and appliances, it was only a matter of time before the market would go full circle. A press release crossed... More >
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