News came over the wires last night of HP’s agreement to acquire Mercury (Interactive Corp) – in a transaction worth roughly $4.5 billion, which equates to HP paying a 33% premium on Mercury’s current stock price. HP’s CEO, Mark Hurd, has obviously been bullish about the acquisition’s potential to create an IT management vendor powerhouse. [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 by adminYesterday was a big news day for XenSource, the company founded by the originators of the open source Xen hypervisor, which is providing the commercial XenEnterprise solution for the deployment, provisioning and management of virtualised environments based on Xen: Novell announced worldwide availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 which embeds Xen IBM said it will [...]
Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 by admin…to paraphrase something that some US President or other might possibly have said. CBDi analyst Richard Veryard responded to my recent blog entry on the validity of MWD’s strapline (“advising on IT-business alignment). I think he partly agrees, but I also think he misses something fundamental about the IT-business alignment thing. It’s my fault: I [...]
Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 by adminIn this episode: Neil Ward-Dutton chairs. Neil Macehiter gives an explanation of the concept of user-centric identity, and talks about the wave of activity that’s currently going on in this area – including Projects Bandit and Higgins, and commercial efforts from Microsoft and Google. Jon Collins then picks up the mic and gives his take [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 5, 2006 by adminAn anonymous commenter on my recent “SOA petition” post here proffered: Could you drop the “IT-business alignment” waffle as well? That would make things just perfect. We’ve been aware for some time that the term “IT business alignment” is in danger of becoming yet another one of those “look at me, I’m a strategic thinker” [...]
Posted on Monday, July 3, 2006 by admin
