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IBM to buy Telelogic: Rational, but not inspirational

I know in the blogosphere, waiting a few days to provide comment on an announcement like this one hardly puts me at the leading edge – but hey. Although I can’t claim to be breaking any news, there are a couple of other points about IBM’s purchase of Telelogic that I think are worth making.
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Posted by admin on June 15, 2007

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Shock, horror: Microsoft and Concordia

Microsoft agrees to participate in ID project … For the first time representatives of Liberty Alliance and Microsoft are going to sit down together … Microsoft is to meet this month with vendors and organisations that are backing several different identity management systems. The Microsoft meeting suggests that cooperation between the software giant and its [...]

 

Posted by admin on June 7, 2007

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Microsoft's Dynamic IT: it's a start

I have just returned from a couple of days in Orlando, where I attended a Microsoft Server and Tools Business analyst summit which coincided with the company’s TechEd conference. The RedMonkers James and Coté did a great job of live blogging the event (here, here, here, here, here and here) – and there was even [...]

 

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Turning IT inside out and the trouble with ITSM and BSM

The other day Martin Atherton over at our partner Freeform Dynamics got me thinking again about the IT service management (ITSM) / application management / business service management (BSM) hoopla we’ve long been saddled with in the IT industry.
I can absolutely see why vendors would want to try and avoid being seen as “just” providers [...]

 

Posted by admin on June 4, 2007