A brief thought for a Friday. I was at a briefing with some IBM folk the other day, and I was listening to Karla Norsworthy talking about how IBM works to influence industry and technology standardisation. At one point she said “ecosystem” – but the combination of her American accent and my poor listening skills [...]
Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 by adminFollowing up on Neil’s post about policy, I thought it was making a single point about whether or not the concept of “policy” could be in or out of vogue. Its a simple enough point, but one that took me years to work out – that a policy defines a set of rules. However the [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 by adminThe other Neil alerted me to Security Incite, a fellow specialist analyst company, founded by Mike Rothman (former META analyst, PKI entrepreneur and marketing VP at CipherTrust and TruSecure) and which is focussed on the information security market. The company has an innovative community-driven approach to working with technology adopters but that’s not what I [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 by adminYesterday was a day out of the office. The other Neil and I were at briefings with the VP of Product Development of an ESB company and then the President/CEO of a service-oriented management company. Whilst the focus of their employers’ respective offerings is clearly different, there was one theme that came across loud and [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 by adminI’m obviously only a yellow-belt blogger. Reading Dan Farber’s post today over at ZDNet about reaction to Nick Carr’s presentation at OSBC reminded me that I’d seen Nick Carr present almost exactly the same deck at Infoconomy’s Effective IT Summit in Cardiff, Wales a couple of weeks ago (where I was lucky enough to be [...]
Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 by adminI went to a very interesting briefing with Microsoft this morning, following up on the EC case documented here. Essentially, to comply with EC requirements the company has documented parts of its Windows Server code that were previously invisible to the outside world, and made this documentation available to its source code licensees. But, does [...]
Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 by adminHP’s troubled relationship with middleware technology has been well-documented (see here and here for examples). Now, after a relatively quiet period HP is making a flurry of announcements about new deals. Hot on the heels of the acquisition of archiving software vendor OuterBay last week, it’s announced today that it’s deepening its middleware reseller relationship [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 by adminJon Collins here. Having recently joined MWD as a principal analyst, I was asked what I thought about the Outerbay acquisition. Good question. From where I’ve been sitting, HP has never had the best track record in enterprise software. The next “e” never was e-services, and HP has acquired many a product only to let [...]
Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 by adminI was reading "Rethinking BPM in a mashup based SOA world" – which brings together ideas from some great bloggers: the author David Berlind, Steven O’Grady, and Sandy Kemsley – and I completely see why the mashup phenomenon is potentially interesting in an enterprise IT context. But I think it’s dangerous to associate mashups and [...]
Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 by adminPrompted by the coverage (here at News.com for example) of Jim Allchin’s recent “Vista” tour of US press and analysts, I got to thinking about the business proposition for the next release of the Windows operating system – or lack of it. To date, Microsoft has focussed its messaging at its natural audiences: the developer [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 by admin
