A while back I made this observation. Now comes a fascinating report from the World Economic Forum: the fifth Global Information Technology Report. A key part of it is an assessment of "networked readiness and ICT competitiveness" – defined as the degree of preparedness of a nation or community to participate in and benefit from [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 by adminI’ve gradually become aware, over the past weeks, that I – and a lot of other people – have fallen down a bit of a rabbit-hole when it comes one aspect of SOA. I’ve been talking a lot about the value of SOA – and in my conversations with people about that, one of the [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 by adminWell this certainly passed me by (although I don’t recall any major announcements/press releases). Fortunately, the ever-watchful Tim Bray didn’t miss it, as he points out in this recent excellently-titled post. At long last the industry behemoths on either side of the web services management standards stand-off – HP and IBM with the OASIS’ WSDM [...]
Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006 by adminI know I’m going to come across like the annoying old fella who sits in the corner at any fun event and mumbles to himself about how rubbish things have got since men started wearing their hair long – but in the spirit of my esteemed colleague’s emerging manifesto for industry analysis (he hasn’t forced [...]
Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 by adminOne of the issues I highlight in our recent report on identity management is the need to bridge the gap between enterprise- and user-centric identity. This issue is at the heart of Kim Cameron’s 7 laws and the identity metasystem, and IBM and Novell’s embracing of the Eclipse Higgins initiative. This morning I met with [...]
Posted on Monday, March 6, 2006 by adminMaybe it’s because I’m British. Or maybe it’s a broader thing – is anyone else getting really fed up with quotes in vendor press releases that fall over themselves to be the most super-super-excited (thanks James) they can be? So today BEA announced that it has completed the acquisition of BPM technology specialist Fuego. By [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 by adminI was unfortunately otherwise engaged yesterday and so wasn’t able to comment on the IBM, Novell, Parity Communications Higgins announcement. In my blogging absence, the guys over at Digital ID World did a great analysis job (thanks Eric and Phil): 1. This is, net-net, a *win* for Kim Cameron’s Identity Metasystem. In the past few [...]
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