As Microsoft heads in to the seasonal break it does so with the threat of daily fines of 2 million Euros, rather than sprigs of mistletoe, hanging over its head, according to Reuters. The European Commission is clearly in no mood to kiss and make up. The EC has issued a Statement of Objections for [...]
Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 by adminUnlike the rest of us, IBM doesn’t seem to want to wait for the January sales! Having bolstered its composite application development capabilities with yesterday’s acquisition of Bowstreet, it followed-up today with the proposed (subject to shareholder approval) far heftier $865M acquisition of San Francisco-based and (and excuse the parochialism) UK-originated Micromuse. Micromuse plugs an [...]
Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 by adminIBM today announced the acquisition of long-time partner Bowstreet, a 75-person, privately-held company based down the road in Massachusetts from IBM’s Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software group, into which it will be assimilated (or “bluewashed” as IBM quaintly refers to it). The acquisition is hardly surprising given that the two companies have been working together [...]
Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by adminRoss Mayfield’s perspectives on the demise of business process and the rise of social software, which the other Neil has previously commented on, continues to spark debate. This time, fellow analyst Mike Gotta over at Burton Group enters the fray, stating: the topic would have been better served by framing it as a process vs. [...]
Posted on Monday, December 19, 2005 by adminAfter last week’s appearance by the other Neil, it is both of our turns this week! Fellow independent analyst and ZDNet contributor, Dana Gardner, over at Interarbor Solutions, hosted a 30-minute podcast with us both. We provide our thoughts on the recent launch of SCA, as well as a bit of 2005 retrospective and a [...]
Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 by adminIn an earlier post I alluded to recently meeting Steve Jones, Capgemini’s CTO of Application Development Transformation. We shared a panel for a VNU web seminar on SOA and ESB, and it turns out that we have pretty similar views on SOA – specifically, that the really crucial bit is about understanding the "S" and [...]
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 by adminFor anyone who’s interested in SOA, I thought you might find this interesting. I present first, and most of what I’m talking about is the four steps involved in maximising the business value of SOA. I then talk a bit about the technology required to make these steps – which is also covered in our [...]
Posted on Friday, December 9, 2005 by admin[Note to readers: this is a long entry. Please bear with it!] With the announcement last week by IBM, BEA, Oracle, SAP, Siebel, IONA and others that they are collaborating to develop a language neutral programming model tuned to the needs of SOA initiatives, it looks like a little more lustre has rubbed off J2EE. [...]
Posted on Wednesday, December 7, 2005 by admin
