Just been reading a rating of the various IT players in terms of revenues size and categories, and its amazing for an industry that prides itself on being dynamic to see how little the vendor statuses have changed from 2005 to 2006. The top 20...
Read moreThe industry is buzzing with SOA being positioned as the next big thing. As with all new technological fashions SOA promises to delver better, faster, cheaper IT support than was possible before it arrived on the scene. However, all this hype seems...
Read moreI am fascinated by the idea of ‘Social Computing’, a new term that is beginning to gain impetus as the idea that using technology to communicate and share information, or collaborate in new ways is in effect a life skill. I confess to an initial...
Read moreI have just had an interesting discussion in a very large global enterprise around standardisation. These guys are good, very good in fact, and have really got control in a way most people in centralised IT would envy, but when it comes to trying to...
Read moreBack in the crazy days of the Internet bubble economy and before blogs had appeared I ‘invented’ the concept of the internet washing machine to illustrate how even every day products may become changed by the Internet. I say I invented, but...
Read moreI have been conscious of the term ‘semantic web’ for quite a few years now, and probably like most people it was all a bit fuzzy, didn’t seem to connect in my mind to anything solid. Well, two events in quick succession made it work for me, the...
Read moreI guess it’s a good litmus test. When I heard Jason Weisser, IBM’s Software Group VP for Enterprise Integration, discuss the other day with 30 Capgemini software engineers and architects what the real secret is of Service Oriented Architecture,...
Read moreIt’s the annual World Wide Web conference in Edinburgh and the place is humming with excitement about a hundred new ideas, capabilities and products. It’s hard not to get excited and I frankly have to confess that my non corporate side has caught...
Read moreWhen Nicolas Carr posed the question ‘does IT matter’ in the Harvard review some years back it unleashed a hail of comments, mostly from the IT industry, saying the this was not a matter even for debate, of course IT mattered! Well I agree, (as...
Read moreI promised some additional book titles to you all. Just to guide you through your free summer days. A real nice one, which sounds particularly suitable for at the pool or the beach is The Naked Corporation, by Dan Tapscott and David Ticoll. It...
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