In an article today, Computer Business Review, comments on Oracle president Charles Phillips’ recent announcement of what he claims to be “a major revamp of our product line coming out over the summer both for BI tools and our OLAP engine.” I commented recently that Oracle is readying itself for Microsoft’s November launch of SQL [...]
Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 by adminBritton Manasco over at ZDNet provides an insightful analysis of some recent commentary by Michael Liebow, VP of Web Services and SOA at IBM Global Services. Liebow’s comments address the issue of what is new about SOA and, unsurprisingly, emphasises broad support (RESTafarians excepted, of course) for web services standards as the distinguishing factor. Whilst [...]
Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005 by adminIn his latest blog post over at Loosely Coupled, Phil Waineright discusses the challenges to traditional software-based pricing models. He refers to an Economist article which highlights some of the factors which are driving a reappraisal of processor-based pricing models, such as the advent of multi-core processors and virtualisation. Whilst these factors have certainly served [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2005 by adminWell, after much speculation, Microsoft has announced the formal name for Longhorn: Windows Vista. Whilst Microsoft clearly hopes the name will invoke the key messages of ‘Clear’, ‘Confident’ and ‘Connected’, I always think of ‘vista’ as a vision off in the distance! Given the history of delays with the next version of Windows, perhaps they’ve [...]
Posted on Friday, July 22, 2005 by adminAsk IBM, BEA and others about where they’re most concerned about competition coming from in the application platform / service infrastructure space, and they’ll say “SAP”. I came across this article the other day (it was a link inside the regular SAP Developer Network e-newsletter – you may need to accept a certificate to view [...]
Posted on Friday, July 22, 2005 by adminIBM today announced its intention to acquire 70-person PureEdge, a 12 year old privately-held company based in Canada. This is yet another small technology-focussed acquisition, along the lines of AlphaBlox, SRD and Venetica. PureEdge’s eponymous 8X solution supports the development, delivery and utilisation of electronic forms, based on the W3C’s XForms standard developed by the [...]
Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 by adminYesterday Oracle announced general availability of its Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET 2003. These tools have been developed through Oracle’s participation in Microsoft’s VSIP (Visual Studio Industry Partner) program and enable the development and deployment of Oracle Database 10g applications using the dominant development environment for the Windows platform. This is hot on the [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 by adminAccording to news reports, Sun will later today announce a further foray into open source, with the creation of the Open Web Single Sign-On (OpenSSO) project. According to the report, OpenSSO will see Sun releasing source code from its Java System Access Manager (under the same CDDL license used for the OpenSolaris project) for web [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 by adminFor some years now, Microsoft has been working hard to improve perceptions of it within “enterprises” – large commercial and public-sector organisations. These days, it’s doing more than ever. One particular set of initiatives which the company is pursuing, concerns dialog with customers about the business value of Microsoft technology. The company is doing a [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 by adminFor some time now, I’ve been holding back from letting a growing frustration boil over. Specifically, my frustration is with the creation of new terminology to represent concepts which are already well-understood, with the purpose of creating new product opportunities; and with the twisting of existing terminology to represent concepts other than those which were [...]
Posted on Monday, July 11, 2005 by admin
