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
At last some news: Social Business Software!
11
September
2009
At the end of last year we were asked to make our predictions for this Blog. The problem with making predictions is that you tend to focus on what is newsworthy at the time & then predict the outcome; I’m guilty as charged (my predictions are here if you are interested). Having confidently predicted what [...]
Failed already? We’ve only just started!
14
September
2009
As 2009 starts we are all predicting what we think the coming year holds in store for us, this Blog being no exception. However, there is a trend in the predictions that has grown to full scale articles concerning The Demise of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). It feels like it was only a few months [...]
Live Mesh – The start of something big?
5
September
2008
Cloud Computing, Software as a Service, Application Service Providers, Virtual Desktops and Live Workspaces. Just some of the terms which have been bandied about over the past few years. With Windows Live Mesh, now available as a Public Beta as part of the ‘Wave 3′ release of Windows Live I sense these technologies coming of [...]
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 [...]
Cloud Watching
5
September
2008
My blogging colleague Neil Strenge & I tend, as each week progresses, to watch the clouds. We each have our reasons, but what we share is a desire to foretell what the weather will be during the coming weekend. Unfortunately at that point our wishes diverge, Neil wants to see signs of wind coming whereas [...]
The Credit Crunch – Cue SaaS for the Masses?
15
September
2008
Your business ISP ain’t what it used to be. The days when the ISPs job was simply to connect you to the internet and provide some webspace are long behind us. Most business ISPs are now able to offer expert IT management, hosted applications and Software as a Service (SaaS) in addition to the more [...]
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