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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Intel Capital Annual Venture Capital Event – what’s hot!
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 technology spectrum, and that means from health and bio technology to consumer and, of course, classic computer-based activities. In addition it also invests globally and today is equally active in the new emerging economies, the so called BRIC …
The Zen of applications retirement
When 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 a glimpse of the Ox’s hoof marks. I do however like the emphasis of Zen on disciplined training and a continuous polishing of the basics (more about this on …
Does 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 desk-based, client-server solutions and dealt with an exponentially growing number of users and the ever increasing size of monolithic applications. Scaling up has been the litmus test for these …
It’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 publishes a list of its top ten disruptive technologies, and of course the interesting question is, what’s the difference?! I don’t mean what the Gartner team puts on the list, but …
Rich 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 to write this as something of a personal crusade, but as you will see at the end by accident the timing was good, and it seemed that others including the …
These 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 some interesting things when looking for ‘Sap Solution Architects’. “Can’t say I didn’t have a good laugh while interviewing a number of IT Architects the other week! As it turns out, there …
More 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 their new Maemo. There is also the question of timing, is Microsoft and by the same measure Nokia, too late into the market to change the adoption and momentum of Apple and …
