With IBM, Amazon and Microsoft fighting for our cloud computing attention, we might forget to think about useful scenarios for all this fancy airy stuff. We all know the classical e-commerce example with its season-bound resource spikes and the...
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JavaFX: when will the cat jump?
In May 2007, at the JavaOne conference, Sun announced JavaFX: a family of products for creating Rich Internet Applications for desktop, mobile, TV and other platforms (wikipedia definition). All fitting nicely in Suns credo: Write once, run...
Read moreTech predictions 2009: Information filtering and behavioral targeting are the new gold
Clay Shirky mentioned it some time ago "It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure". And he is right, currently there is so much information that it is hard to filter it correctly to come to the information you need (Well it is not hard...
Read moreTech Predictions for 2009: The Year Standards Bodies wake up to Clouds
I've seen a lot of talk recently, including on this blog, about clouds moving from the person to the enterprise. While all agree it's a good idea, there are many road blocks to overcome. Security always gets a mention (see my previous blog entry)....
Read moreThe 2008 "it" list
While all our colleagues (including us) are doing bold predictions on what will be hot or not in 2009, let’s take a quick recap of what was hot in 2008. In a true Web 2.0 collaboration fashion we (@mnankman, @rickmans and @leeprovoost) discussed...
Read moreTech predictions 2009: Let’s socialise!”
2009 will be the year when use of social networking tools within companies will be the talk of the town. Yes, it has been around for a while but to be honest, nothing much has really happened apart from that Serena Software uses Facebook internally....
Read moreTech Predictions 2009: Music-As-A-Service (…at last)
The title says it all, and I believe that 2009 will be the year in which we start to see some real music-as-a-service propositions come to life. Although some existing online music services may claim to be already providing “music as a service”,...
Read moreTech predictions 2009: "Trust" is the new version of "Control"
When using applications or services in the Cloud and you incorporated them in your business processes you already made the decision that control isn't everything anymore and trust is more important. The decision of putting trust above control (or...
Read moreTech Predictions 2009: Webkit surpasses Flash Player penetration
As I wrote before in my post titled "Write once, REALLY run Everywhere", I believe WebKit to possibly be the most installed piece of open source software today. And if it isn't today, it will be next year, mark my words. However, that it is only a...
Read moreHelp - there’s an architect in the boardroom!
Not trying to be facetious, but apparently this is a typical reaction by most board members when confronted with certain members of this species. The title of Enterprise Architect (EA) may conjure up a vision of uber-geekdom & rarefied...
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