In the past couple of days I’ve read a couple of articles (“IT can’t be a service provider and a partner too” and “Run IT as a business – why that’s a train wreck waiting to happen“) that riff on the same theme: that the exhortation to “run IT as a business” leads you down [...]
Posted on Thursday, January 21, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonUncategorized
Via Service Oriented Enterprise, I recently picked up an Infoworld blog post by SOA journeyman David Linthicum, where he makes a couple of very strange points about SOA and ESBs. It may be, of course, that the post is pure link bait: certainly, David appears to have said some relatively sane things in the past, [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 by adminUncategorized
I’ve read a number of articles and thought pieces recently that explore the problems with approaches to IT delivery that focus too much on projects as the organising concept – particularly when it comes to SOA adoption. The shortcomings of an overly project-focused approach are something I can agree with wholeheartedly. The research we conducted [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 by adminUncategorized
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. [...]
Posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 by adminUncategorized
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” [...]
Posted on Monday, June 4, 2007 by admin
