A couple of days ago I came across an intriguing post titled “Fear, Greed and Social Software” on Many2Many, a pretty thought-provoking blog from Corante. Some interesting thoughts, but one point in particular caught my eye. Ross Mayfield points to “The Only Sustainable Edge”: ‘In the one business strategy book you must read this year, [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 by adminA bit belatedly, I thought it would be worthwhile to add a different perspective to recent reporting around Oracle’s rebranding of its “bag of middleware”. For example, Joe McKendrick at ZDNet likens the new Oracle Fusion Middleware brand to IBM’s Websphere. But it’s more subtle than that. The truth is that Oracle’s intent is to [...]
Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 by adminOn Friday 13 May, Sun and Microsoft provided the second update on their year-long collaboration since the announcement of their landmark 10-year cooperation agreement in April 2004. In contrast to the last update in December, Scott McNealy and Steve Ballmer – amidst much on-stage bonhomie – were in a position to discuss some tangible results [...]
Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2005 by adminOn May 10, IBM announced what it referred to as a “significant software acquisition” – that of an 18 person company founded less than two years ago! Following so soon after the closure of the $1.1 billion acquisition of Ascential, one could be forgiven for questioning the significance. With the benefit of two days in [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2005 by adminA cautionary note to anyone getting carried away thinking about the potential ramifications of the tie-up between IBM and Lawson Software (mid-market vendor of packaged application software) – Lawson was one of the high-profile vendors which signed up to support IBM’s San Francisco project, which started with great fanfare in 1994. San Francisco was an [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2005 by adminIt seems that all that fresh blood at CA is creating some really interesting stirrings. At yesterday’s Interop Data Management and Compliance Conference, CA’s CTO, Yogesh Gupta, talked about the importance of putting business processes at the heart of IT thinking in order to improve IT-business alignment. In particular he talked about “determining how the [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 5, 2005 by adminOn Monday 3rd May, the standards consortium OASIS announced the formation of a committee to develop a core reference model designed to “guide and foster the creation of specific, service-oriented architectures (SOA)”. When I first read the announcement I was encouraged on a number of fronts. Firstly, the formation of the committee recognises, as our [...]
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