By Since the early 1990s Intel has been providing venture capital funding for technology start-ups to encourage the technology market. From small beginnings this has grown into a remarkable operation that today is investing not just across the...
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The Zen of applications retirement
By Ron Tolido
2CommentsWhen our new ExpertConnect site was launched a few days ago, several people asked me what – for heaven’s sake – I mean with ‘seeking the Zen within technology’. Well, first of all I must admit I know nothing about Zen: I have not even found...
Read moreDoes it scale down? Why we need to Remix our skills
Yes, the question of “does it scale down” sounds bizarre to any builder of IT solutions since the first thing we are taught to consider is whether the solution scales up. Bigger has always been better over the last two decades, as IT has built up...
Read moreIt’s not the individual technologies – it’s the solution implications
Every year around about this time Gartner publishes its list of the top ten strategic technologies for the following year. The latest one covering 2011 has just been announced in a press release on their site. In the spring of each year Gartner also...
Read moreRich Internet Applications – the true deliverable of the cloud
I am still struck by how tenuously so many in the IT industry cling to their belief in the ubiquitous unchanging nature of the client – server model, and how any new ‘disruptive’ technology is somehow not going to disrupt this model. I set out...
Read moreThese crazy IT architects ...
.. and not even my words, although I do think the IT architects community requires some regular, friendly bashing to keep it live and awake. For this occasion, I leave the honor to guest blogger and Capgemini colleague Mendel Koerts, who found out...
Read moreMore phone OS’s than we need? Enterprise or user issue?
The launch of Microsoft Windows Phone 7 has resulted in the usual round of discussions about how it matches up to its competitors, notably Apple and Google Android, but it would be unwise to forget Nokia, still the mobile phone market leader, and...
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