Hurrah! I’ve just been to a Cisco press event, and for the very first time I have seen a vendor presenting on “how to cope with the vagaries of regulation” rather than “companies need to implement compliance technologies”. I have frequently argued in the past that compliance was a post-Enron US invention, jumped upon by [...]
Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by adminVMware announced yesterday that it is making its virtual machine file format freely available, with no license or royalties. Despite also claiming that the company is committed to supporting any other open virtual machine disk formats broadly adopted by customers and working toward converging on open standards in this area this announcement is clearly motivated [...]
Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by adminAs some of you may know we have already participated in a couple of podcasts on SOA in 2005 and business process management with Dana Gardner of Interabor Solutions. Now it’s our turn to take control of the microphone. Our first foray into the podcastosphere (?) can be accessed here (or you can subscribe to [...]
Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 by adminThere’s been plenty of kerfuffle about the delays in Windows Vista, for better for worse, and there is little to add to the debate – Grady Booch has an evenhanded summary of proceedings here. Corporate SA/volume license agreement customers will still be getting a pre-holiday season version of Vista but Microsoft might have been better [...]
Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 by admin
