By Ron Tolido
Many of you are planning to go on holidays soon. I know I am. And I’m confident that you don’t want to spend your valuable free days doing perfectly nothing or – even worse – read that Da Vinci Code for the third time. So during the next week...
Read moreI heard a new term this week from an experienced CIO running a good operation, well matched to the enterprises business aims, etc. He reckoned that ‘Shadow IT’ is fast becoming the order of the day as the Users, individually or in groups, enact...
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By Ron Tolido
I just wanted to state that I used the 2.0 concept in my previous blog-item in the sense of - well - plain irony, I guess. Before you know it, you end up being flamed by a large community that simply cannot cope any longer with all the cooked up hype...
Read moreImagine blogging like it's supposed to be. Not minding too much about the correct wording. Just trying to be crisp and focused. Possibly building on blog-items of others, or trying to provoke new feedback, exploring the edges of an argument or...
Read moreAmazon is a great business, while certainly for books, or CDs, and may be even as a ‘mall’ for other smaller speciality retailers who want to sell to the market using Amazon for both the technology and the store front. All these activities are...
Read moreThere’s no better way to show commitment than eating one’s own dog food, or – as some of my French colleagues would call it – drinking one’s own champagne. I can imagine why that Ford plant manager in Michigan recently announced that only...
Read moreYou know the problem, keep active on your email account, or die. Well maybe not physically, but it feels like death when you grimly contemplate several hundred emails. I have to travel a great deal and these days the expectation is that I will always...
Read moreYes, we’ve heard it all before. A good IT or Enterprise Architect is supposed to be able to bridge the gap between business objectives and technology solutions. In order to do that, architects still need thorough analytical skills: even with (some...
Read moreI was facing an eleven hour flight back from India after an IT Industry event, had checked in and was sitting in the lounge contemplating an uncomfortable sleepless night with others I had become friendly with over the last few days. In breezed...
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By Ron Tolido
As a true Dutchman, I'm ready to be happy with anything I get for free. But it gets a lot better when it is for free but also excellent. And that's certainly the case with Dan Wood's new book on Enterprise SOA. 'Enterprise SOA, Designing IT for...
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