http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron * Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:00:39 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-19T21:00:39Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/fujitsu-interstage-bpm-11-clouds-it-up/?cs=37632 I caught up with the Fujitsu Interstage business process management (BPM) marketing folks during the week of Nov. 9, timed to the release of Interstage BPM Version 11.   I saw a good mix of feature/functionality and platform/program aspects in bpm business_process_management fujitsu cloud_computing multitenancy interstage Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:05:03 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/fujitsu-interstage-bpm-11-clouds-it-up/?cs=37632 2009-11-20T14:05:03Z 1 day, 3 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/fujitsu-interstage-bpm-11-clouds-it-up http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37632 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/is-your-walk-down-enterprise-software-memory-lane-bittersweet/?cs=37600 Doing some research to check facts on this May 5 blog post on Technology Solutions Corp. (see End of Enterprise Software Company TSC Is Sign of Times ), I came across an index of the stories that ran in Computer Business Review in September 1997.  It’s mrp ibm business_technology microsoft enterprise_software enterprise_software_vendors erp_systems Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:32:25 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/is-your-walk-down-enterprise-software-memory-lane-bittersweet/?cs=37600 2009-11-19T14:32:25Z 2 days, 2 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/is-your-walk-down-enterprise-software-memory-lane-bittersweet http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37600 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/in-enterprise-software-news-the-holiday-season-starts-early/?cs=37499 During a slow news week for enterprise software, it’s tough to be a blogger.  There’s nothing interesting to comment on.   The trade press must be having the same problem because this is what I found in googling “enterprise software” filtered by crm_solutions open_source_enterprise_software enterprise_software enterprise_software_vendors erp_systems business_technology Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:10:37 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/in-enterprise-software-news-the-holiday-season-starts-early/?cs=37499 2009-11-14T13:10:37Z 6 days, 11 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/in-enterprise-software-news-the-holiday-season-starts-early http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37499 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/new-york-times-misses-eu-oracle-sun-story/?cs=37427 As tends to happen with IT stories that have a political angle, the mainstream media has weighed in on the European Union statement of objections to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems.  On Nov. 12, The New York Times cobbled together a bunch of sun_microsystems oracle red_hat competition legislation_and_regulation enterprise_software_vendors european_union enterprise_software ibm business_technology Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:31:43 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/new-york-times-misses-eu-oracle-sun-story/?cs=37427 2009-11-12T13:31:43Z 1 week, 1 day ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/new-york-times-misses-eu-oracle-sun-story http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37427 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/cant-wait-for-google-wave-part-ii--introducing-actionbase/?cs=37419 I had an interesting discussion on November 10 with Jacob Ukelson, CTO of ActionBase, the business process management (BPM) software supplier that prefers the term human process management (HPM). Actionbase released version 6.1 of its core product in google lotus_notes actionbase business_process_management bpm business_technology collaboration_software google_wave Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:01:44 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/cant-wait-for-google-wave-part-ii--introducing-actionbase/?cs=37419 2009-11-11T19:01:44Z 1 week, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/cant-wait-for-google-wave-part-ii--introducing-actionbase http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37419 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/apache-software-foundation-celebrates-10th-anniversary-by-asking-for-volunteers/?cs=37317 The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) had its annual U.S. bash and celebrated its 10th birthday simultaneously the week of Nov. 2 in Oakland, Calif.  ASF grew from a half-dozen programmers who got together in 1995 to provide better Web server software open_source_enterprise_software government_agencies business_technology ibm microsoft apache_software_foundation Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:37:06 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/apache-software-foundation-celebrates-10th-anniversary-by-asking-for-volunteers/?cs=37317 2009-11-09T13:37:06Z 2 weeks, 3 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/apache-software-foundation-celebrates-10th-anniversary-by-asking-for-volunteers http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37317 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/ingres-ceos-advice-about-enterprise-software-makes-no-sense/?cs=37285 I've been waiting with bated breath for a week for the second installment of Ingres CEO Roger Burkhardt's advice on how to keep from getting duped by the leading enterprise software suppliers. I hope Fortune gets some of Ingres’ ad money after it let enterprise_software saas open_source enterprise_software_vendors business_technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:56:25 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/ingres-ceos-advice-about-enterprise-software-makes-no-sense/?cs=37285 2009-11-06T10:56:25Z 2 weeks, 1 day ago 3 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/ingres-ceos-advice-about-enterprise-software-makes-no-sense http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37285 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/why-cloud-vs-premise-is-premise-the-wrong-word/?cs=37077 Here is an interesting blog post by Webex/Cisco's director of product strategy, David Knight, asking the question " Why Cloud vs Premise ?" that might be helpful as you plan your 2010 IT budget and projects. I agree with his conclusion that the ondemand enterprise_software business_technology saas cloud_computing Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:58:20 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/why-cloud-vs-premise-is-premise-the-wrong-word/?cs=37077 2009-11-04T12:58:20Z 3 weeks, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/why-cloud-vs-premise-is-premise-the-wrong-word http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37077 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/googled-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/?cs=37148 OK, kids and grandkids, the name of the book I want for Christmas is in the headline above. The book sounds like it might be this decade's "The Soul of a New Machine," the Pulitzer prize-winning 1981 book that was a must read for every IT person and google microsoft it_market_analysts business_technology Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:42:28 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/googled-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/?cs=37148 2009-11-02T12:42:28Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/googled-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37148 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/update-for-drupal-enterprise-software-in-white-house-it-s-one-step-forward-one-step-back/?cs=37070 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 software (CMS) to a product called Drupal. The story has enterprise_content_management drupal whitehouse.gov content_management_system open_source cms ecm microsoft enterprise_software sharepoint business_technology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:54:37 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/update-for-drupal-enterprise-software-in-white-house-it-s-one-step-forward-one-step-back/?cs=37070 2009-10-29T16:54:37Z 3 weeks, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/update-for-drupal-enterprise-software-in-white-house-it-s-one-step-forward-one-step-back http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37070 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/who-will-be-the-worlds-largest-enterprise-software-company-now/?cs=36936 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. The one I’ve always found most extraordinary just got business_technology microsoft it_market_analysts oracle enterprise_software enterprise_software_vendors ibm Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:25:47 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/who-will-be-the-worlds-largest-enterprise-software-company-now/?cs=36936 2009-10-29T14:25:47Z 4 weeks, 13 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/who-will-be-the-worlds-largest-enterprise-software-company-now http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=36936 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/getting-excited-again-about-enterprise-portals/?cs=37055 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 perspectives of middleware infrastructure, integration enterprise_software knowledge_management silobreaker news_aggregation content_management_system business_technology search_engine portals integration_servers Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:40:37 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/getting-excited-again-about-enterprise-portals/?cs=37055 2009-10-28T15:40:37Z 3 weeks, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/getting-excited-again-about-enterprise-portals http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37055 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/did-ap-mangle-story-of-whitehousegov-overhaul/?cs=36969 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 something like ( depending on how it is picked up in drupal content_management_system cms government_agencies open_source_enterprise_software business_technology Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:39:04 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/did-ap-mangle-story-of-whitehousegov-overhaul/?cs=36969 2009-10-26T15:39:04Z 3 weeks, 5 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/did-ap-mangle-story-of-whitehousegov-overhaul http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=36969 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/talking-with-pierre-fricke-of-red-hat-about-bpm-and-the-stack/?cs=36694 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 management (BPM). Red Hat, with its JBoss middleware group, business_process_management red_hat bpel enterprise_software jboss business_technology open_source_software Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:41:14 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/talking-with-pierre-fricke-of-red-hat-about-bpm-and-the-stack/?cs=36694 2009-10-23T11:41:14Z 1 month, 6 days ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/talking-with-pierre-fricke-of-red-hat-about-bpm-and-the-stack http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=36694 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/zl-technologies-fails-to-get-enterprise-software-seal-of-approval/?cs=36856 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.   I am telling you this because into my inbox enterprise_software_vendors it_market_analysts gartner zl_technologies business_technology Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:38:22 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/zl-technologies-fails-to-get-enterprise-software-seal-of-approval/?cs=36856 2009-10-20T19:38:22Z 1 month, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/zl-technologies-fails-to-get-enterprise-software-seal-of-approval http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=36856