Back in December I posted a short piece about whether there really is a future in writing software any more. The piece was driven by some comments made about some research initiatives in new software tools going on in Microsoft & Sun and how they would affect us going forward. While we have a lot [...]
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Will technology come up with a good solution for our business problems?
24
September
2009
IT’s a busy world, but where is it going?
17
September
2008
For a ‘summer period’, it seems to be a busy time with lots of chatter and a lot of “hot topics” keeping my in-box warm. The problem is that looking so far ahead takes our focus off what we’re actually doing. Cloud computing seems to be everywhere but what is it? I suspect it’s another [...]
Writing Code – Is there a future?
10
September
2008
A visit by a Microsoft guy to talk about development tools got me thinking about this, really as an adjunct to the previous post about Web 2.0. We do need to think about what we are going to do in future. It’s easy to say that we will rely on 3rd party delivered applications, and [...]
Is there a price to pay for free software?
14
September
2008
I thought that company directors spent some of their time playing golf with their peers as part of “networking”. However it turns out that the modern IT director, such as ours, seems to think that a good time spent networking with his peers involves discussions around relevant topics like “Strategic Resourcing”. It was no surprise [...]
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