Larry Ellison the ‘bad boy’ of the industry as he likes to bill himself, but probably more correctly the industry maverick for change, enjoyed himself hugely in giving his keynote at Oracle Open World. His announcement that Oracle would support...
Read moreWhoever you speak to, innovation is a hot topic in terms of value creation for businesses and governments alike. And it’s becoming more so. Why not take a walk around the office and take a second look at people innovating? Count the post-it notes,...
Read moreIs an English expression meaning that you are not seeing what is happening in the detail of the wood on a particular tree, because you are still looking at the same overall picture of the forest that appears not to be changing. I have a similar...
Read moreThat’s how many people are currently paying $15 per month to belong to ‘The World of War craft’ the startlingly successful Vivendi global gaming site that has made others in the on line industry think hard about the future. The subscription...
Read moreI thought it would be nothing more than reasonable to share some takeaways with you from the European SAP TechEd ’06 conference which is currently being held in Amsterdam. The TechEd has this typical SAP-style flavour of being, let’s say very...
Read moreI was intrigued by yesterday’s article on bbc news http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6054352.stm about Reuters setting up a news agency in Second Life. According to Second Life, its GDP in 2005 was $64m. Main stream businesses are establishing...
Read moreAttended a great session in Edinburgh called ‘ScotSoft2006’. This is a local event organised by ScotlandIS, www.scotlandis.com , and included a panel session of Industry ‘worthies’ in discussion with the thriving local Scottish IT community....
Read moreTwo broad camps are forming (or have already formed) in the information technology community at the moment. On the side of big business and enterprise software we have service-oriented architecture (SOA). On the side of the Internet, democracy...
Read moreA Blackberry that crashes. I didn’t even know it existed. Until our guys from the IT department recently gave me the newest, shiniest version which – in their opinion – has a lot of additional features which I just must have, like - you know -...
Read moreThis was the title of the presentation I gave at Grid World in Washington, USA, (sorry couldn’t resist adding the USA piece, after all it might have been in Washington in the north of the UK), and judging by the general nature of the event the...
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