When we started this blog we were adamant that it would be relentlessly on-topic. But as it’s become more popular, it’s become one of the best ways for us to get information out there widely. So with that in mind, we hope you don’t mind this a shameless plug for MWD’s shiny new Supplier Advisory [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 by adminI’ve been looking into open source IT management offerings recently (though not in as much detail as Cote), for a number of reasons. No, I don’t believe we should paint the whole world with open source, particularly as it appears more and more to be a business-driven alternative to traditional sourcing, rather than any “power [...]
Posted on Monday, October 9, 2006 by adminSo Microsoft is finally out of the closet. After years of shrugging off any enquiries about SOA and preferring instead to talk exclusively about something called “service orientation”, the company has put its name to a SOA conference which ran last week in Redmond. It’s really a BizTalk and Office conference, actually, but SOA (and [...]
Posted on Monday, October 9, 2006 by adminI confess to being a bit turned off by functional discussions about the latest and greatest storage, server and networking technologies. It doesn’t help that they all look the same. No amount of chrome can disguise the fact that most rack-mounted equipment is about as interesting to look at as a row of shoeboxes: unfortunately, [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 4, 2006 by adminJeff over at Service Oriented Enterprise is grumpy about the approval of the SOA-RM specification by OASIS. He says it’s only really useful for a very specialised audience – the implication, I think, is that the ideas are so abstract that they’re not of any practical use to real practitioners. Now I’ll admit that the [...]
Posted on Monday, October 2, 2006 by adminWe recorded this material at the tail end of our previous discussion on Web 2.0 and the “uncompany”, but given the length of the conversation we felt it would be kinder to listeners if we split it into two pieces! So here’s the second piece of Neil M and Neil WD’s discussion, focusing on some [...]
Posted on Monday, October 2, 2006 by admin
