I must apologize because this post is both something of a history lesson and something of a crusade. But it’s a post with a very, very important point about now being the time to start to take serious notice of what and where genuinely important standards are impacting your enterprise as part of the current generation of new technologies and new business requirements. The evolutionary path of the new generation of technology based on services …

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I feel tempted this week to just do a very short post and encourage the use of the url links to a couple of great posts on software development, and urge that the time is spent on reading them. Both links reflect issues around changing the way development is done, in one case around the adoption of Agile to build fast, small pieces of code, and the other provides ‘nine gotchas’ to understand about developing …

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I have covered a lot of ground in recent blogs around the topic of exactly what innovation means to the business in terms of ‘innovating’ its business model to service customers and markets in new ways. This links to new technologies being used for the new purposes with new deployment models and how in turn these differences are difficult to relate to existing IT demands, capabilities and responsibilities. All of which leads to the big …

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The news from the stock markets on May 23, that IBM had just overtaken Microsoft in market capitalization pushing Microsoft into third position whilst Apple retained its first place position, launched a lot of press coverage. Given that the figures at that time were Apple $309.2 billion, IBM $203.8 billion and Microsoft $203.7 billion, it didn’t seem that earth-shattering to me, so when I got asked for a press comment, my point of view was …

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