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Open-source development tool momentum swings towards Eclipse

First, what has a post concerning Eclipse and NetBeans got to do with IT-business alignment? Well, it’s all to do with the cost of training and of acquiring skills. Development tool environments have ceased to be a key battleground between IT vendors, by and large; and these days, most IDEs do pretty much the same [...]

Posted on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 by

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Aligning IT with the business

When Nicholas Carr published his May 2003 Harvard Business Review article questioning the value of IT (http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/articles/matter.html), it was greeted with much hand-wringing and voluble protest from the IT vendor community. Whilst questions can be raised about the validity of some of his arguments – not least the fact that it’s how the I(nformation) and [...]

Posted on Wednesday, March 2, 2005 by