Hot(ish) on the heels of our first online event (“2010: time to define your Cloud strategy. Are you ready?” – sponsored by Google Enterprise) – we’ve just started to plan our second online “MWD insights” event. The topic will be “Reinventing Customer Experiences With BPM“, and it’s set to be launched on June 28. We’re [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonUncategorized
Earlier this year IBM (and reportedly) HP both took Sun Microsystems out for first dates but neither decided to take things any further (though IBM arguably got to second base). Now it seems Oracle is prepared to go the whole way with the iconic dot.com technology brand. Are we looking at a beautiful wedding on [...]
Posted on Monday, April 20, 2009 by adminUncategorized
A couple of months back I had a brief Twitter exchange with David Bressler of Progress Software (@djbressler), following a comment I’d seen from Judith Hurwitz (@jhurwitz) at Progress’ analyst day regarding the lack of brand awareness that the company has out there in industry. What I said was: “Progress is a bit like Unilever [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 by adminUncategorized
I’ve been spending a fair bit of time this week talking to a journalist I’ve known for years, Danny Bradbury, for a series of features he’s writing on the middleware strategies of some of the big enterprise software vendors. After our first chat, something suddenly struck me (probably very belatedly): when middleware is talked about [...]
Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Earlier this week I attended an IBM press and analyst summit on the topic of “Business Event Processing”. To coincide with this, the company made some announcements on its “BEP leadership”, with over 3700 “BEP customers”. This is fairly early days in IBM’s attempts to tell a coherent story about what it’s doing in event [...]
Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 by adminUncategorized
A few days ago Matt Asay wrote a piece on Linux’s use on Wall Street in his “Open Road” blog. He recounted how one of the MDs from Bank of New York Mellon saw “open source as the foundation of choice for their innovation”. He goes on to say that this runs counter to prevailing [...]
Posted on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 by adminUncategorized
I was chatting to a friend who’s a top-notch Java developer over the weekend: we were shooting the breeze about Groovy, Rails, Spring, Hibernate and various other Things That Get People Excited (let’s call them TTGPEs), and discussing how far they were likely to penetrate into your average IT shop. “Why do so many people [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Most readers will by now be familiar with the recent sparring between Oracle and BEA (just see our del.icio.us links over the past days to get an update if you’re not up to speed). There’s been plenty said about this already of course, but I thought it would be fun to look past the “industry [...]
Posted on Monday, October 29, 2007 by admin
