HP today announced the acquisition of Trustgenix Inc, continuing both its own recent acquisition spree (following those of AppIQ, Peregrine, and RLX) and the consolidation in the identity management market (following Oracle’s recent acquisitions of OctetString and Thor Technologies). This is hardly a shock. HP already OEM’s Trustgenix’ IdentityBridge, which it rebrands Select Federation, to [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 by adminHere at MWD Towers we get a daily newswire update in our inboxes, to ensure that we catch all the news from the major players in the IT industry. On both Nov 21st and 22nd, as is about usual for an average day, we received notification of 14 news releases from the usual suspects.On Nov [...]
Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2005 by adminMicrosoft today announced, together with an assortment of other vendors and its own customers, the establishment of an Ecma International technical committee to standardise the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats, which the company introduced as the new default file formats for Office “12″ in June this year. This is not the first time Microsoft has [...]
Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 by adminI really like most of Ross Mayfield’s stuff on Many2Many. But in The End of Process (as here, which I commented on previously) I think he’s getting a bit carried away. The piece actually replays many of the points that Ross made back in May, which I disagreed with then and still disagree with. The [...]
Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 by adminI’ll be publishing a fuller report on CA’s reinvigoration next week, but in the meantime I wanted to share this observation as I think it says a lot about what John Swainson is doing at CA, and in general, the value of a good idea. The parallel between EITM and IBM’s “On Demand” vision and [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 by adminI want to ban the word “users” from our (that is, the IT industry’s) vocabulary – in the same way that others want a moratorium on the use of the word “consumer” in the context of ISP connectivity. In time, I’d like to see it disappear from the vocabularies of organisations’ IT departments, too. Why? [...]
Posted on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 by adminI just came across the following article at SearchWebServices which references a number of proponents of ESB (take a look here for the other Neil’s thoughts on that particular TLA du jour) and the JBI (Java Business Integration) specification making, in my humble opinion, a number of dubious claims. For example, “We see JBI as [...]
Posted on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 by adminHaving done quite a lot of research and analysis around how SOA can improve IT-business alignment if “done right”, it’s become apparent to me that organisations think and talk about the ability of SOA to improve IT-business alignment from four perspectives. The perspective they use, depends on the amount of time they’ve had to work [...]
Posted on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 by admin
