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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Oracle brings on the penguins!
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 the RedHat distribution of Linux by offering maintenance support and further development of kernel features in full accordance with the Linux community rules went down very well with his audience. They could see the way …
Unleash the innovator in all of us!
Whoever 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, spreadsheets, emails and access to Web resources such as Google and Wikipedia supporting business processes. You may even see a few folks developing small, niche IT systems by mashing up external …
Can’t see the wood for the trees
Is 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 feeling when I look at the work of OASIS, and for that matter other ‘standards’ groups, such as Open Group, OMG, etc. They seem to be a part of …
7 million people can’t all be nerds?
That’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.
SAP TechEd ’06 takeaways (I)
I 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 elaborately organised. That includes a massive plug & play event infrastructure, which is obviously rebuild many times a year across the world to transform venues into genuine SAP conference buildings. The title of this …
Fancy a second life?
I 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 themselves in this particular virtual world and providing connections to normal Web business channels. And there are many other larger virtual worlds out there. And so some questions – is this the sole preserve of gamers, singletons and generation Y-ers? …
A night in Edinburgh got me thinking!
Attended 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. The quality of the people attending, and the questions to those of us on the panel, was truly excellent, and I really must mention great stuff from fellow panel members including Jeff Wacker. Not only does Jeff have one great …
SOA & Web 2.0: Cage Match
Two 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 and empowering the individual is Web 2.0. Arguments are flying about the differences (or similarities) between the two camps, with pundits claiming everything from differences in the protocols underpinning each approach through to the grand philosophies they …
Don’t touch that Scroll Wheel
A 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 – being a CTO and all. I soon discovered what this means. The device is heavier and features a revamped user-interface which is different from previous versions, apparently for no …
The Big Picture; and where do grids fit in?
This 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 question on everyone’s lips. It really reminds me of the early days of InterOp in the late 1980s when a hardened gang of technocrats knew that TCP/IP, as we …
