The fact that you can read this at all is down to the understanding that standards matter. To you, and I, as users the benefit in being able to use as wide a range of ‘something’, due to standards allowing interoperability seems obvious. It’s a...
Read moreMy 13-year old son recently told me that he wants to be a computer programmer. A devastating announcement that threw me back into deep, introspective thoughts. You start to imagine all sorts of things. Where did it go wrong? Did he have a nasty...
Read moreThis is was one news story that I had to read twice and even track down as I couldn’t believe it! However it does seem to me true, in the sense that there are multiple versions of the story covered in various places and some include some sensible...
Read moreIt’s good to see that the personal music channel Pandora has been chosen in Time’s new list of really, really cool websites. I happen to like the site, although I’m still having some mixed feelings. Surely, Pandora provides some fantastic...
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By P. Evansgr
There's a common meme floating around IT circles about the end of applications in the enterprise. There's definitely a change in the enterprise software environment that we're all picking up on; however, I'm not sure that this is the end of...
Read moreYou may have noticed in the Blogs from my colleagues, and me that as we are working through building a new generation of architecturally based ‘SOA’ style solutions we have started to come up with several reoccurring themes. The further we move...
Read moreFor some of us, it is already depressing enough to return from holidays. But things really get worse if you have to spend your first couple of working days in a pool of e-mails. Mind you, I’m not depressed. For now. But nobody would have objected,...
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By P. Evansgr
I was commuting the other, catching up on my reading, when I came across the following from David McGoveran: We talk about business processes, business transactions, business events, business activities, business metrics and key performance...
Read moreThe concept of Business Architecture has come up in two different sessions I have been at in the last two weeks, one in the USA, and one in Europe. Put pretty simply the proposition is that if we are truly building solutions that will scale and will...
Read moreTalking with a close friend of mine the other day on our usual topic of IT, the universe and everything, he said ‘Did you know, Shell is the world’s largest retailer of Coca-Cola?’ Mentioning this to another friend a couple of days later, he...
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