JBoss, Red Hat & Corporate Culture
By now, some of you have read that several analysts downgraded Red Hat due to Red Hat's execution of the JBoss acquisition. I chose not to blog the story because, well, it's about the performance of a competitor (JBoss) to IBM WebSphere Application Server.

Date: 2007-12-17

How To Select Password Management System
Sometimes when I look at envelopes I understand technology. When I was a student in college, I worked in the server room where we had a secret lock box full of envelopes.

Date: 2007-11-29

Halloween IT Horror Stories - Managers
This Halloween horror story is all about the IT manager who has never been in IT or the IT manager that was the best developer ever.

Date: 2007-10-30

The End Of The Storage Business?
Where to begin? It's been a long 10 days or so, so this rant may be a tad longer than most. First, I ran off to Aruba with my lovely wife and two little ones for a week.

Date: 2007-10-17

The 4 Pillars Of IT Service Management
What does ITSM require? I propose these four pillars: 1. A service-focused view of IT. This means that the end service as the customer experiences it is paramount.

Date: 2007-10-01

OSS And IT Analyst Firms
The Motley Fool has a pretty interesting article on IT analyst firms such as Gartner & Forrester. I've worked with these firms for nearly a decade and do believe that they provide a valuable service to their customers and the IT market in general.

Date: 2007-09-20

What Is In A Number?
When is the last time that anyone relevant paid attention - let alone based a buying decision - on ridiculous market share claims? IBM says it stole 1.2% of HP's storage business in Bolivia.

Date: 2007-08-30

Acopia Sells To F5...
For 210 Million reasons. It's a bit melancholy for me, however. I understand the deal - F5 wants to be the guy in the mega-core to take on Cisco in large distributed...

Date: 2007-08-09

Microsoft In India's Market
Zack asked: So perhaps a question that might be worth asking is if Windows and Office only costs $3 in China, how sustainable are it's prices in other markets?

Date: 2007-07-19

IBM OmniFind Yahoo Finds Tech Partners
Several companies now offer their products as complementary technologies to enhance the IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition enterprise search product.

Date: 2007-07-05

Best Places To Work In IT
ComputerWorld has released their top 100 best places to work in IT for 2007. This perennial list goes a long way in establishing who are the best companies...

Date: 2007-06-21

BPMS/BRMS: Metrics, Metrics, Metrics
Akash recently posted a comment and asked me a question - what metrics to consider to see how the use of business process management systems (BPMS) and business rules management systems (BRMS) can help the insurance industry compared to non-BPMS/BRMS.

Date: 2007-06-07

Quick Hits From OSBC
As a first-time attendee of OSBC this past week, I really didn't know what to expect. In a word, I'd say I was impressed with the conference.

Date: 2007-05-24

CIO Panel W/ Disney, FedEx, Motorola & Unilever
After a bunch of big vendor stuff, we finally got to the keynote panel of CIOs at Software 2007. In an earlier session, a WebEx executive pointed out that 80% of some IT budgets is people.

Date: 2007-05-11

The Perfect Security Product?
Still have not found the perfect security product, come close a couple of times, but no cigar. It is not for lack of looking, however, our way of looking at a security product is as a small security firm that needs to be up and running 24X7 and offer exemplary support for our clients.

Date: 2007-04-19

MDA And Business Rules
I was writing a book review on "Real-Life MDA" and I realized that many of my comments about the book were really about MDA or Model Driven Architecture in general.

Date: 2007-04-05

Technical Certificates Declining In Value
Monster.com is reporting that some IT Certifications are actually declining in value. Allan Hoffman, Monster Tech Jobs Expert is reporting tonight that some...

Date: 2007-03-22

IT Degrees: The Popularity And Broad Specialty Range
Information Technology degrees, or IT degrees are very popular for an excellent reason: the demand has never been stronger for individuals to keep...

Date: 2007-03-08

Bloated Shelf-ware
I’ve been catching up on some reading and found the comments to a post from Dana very interesting. Here’s a summary (although the comments are worth a read)...

Date: 2007-02-22

Google Apps Ready To Crash Microsoft
The Google Apps for Your Domain announcement noted how a premium version was in the works. Next month for a small monthly per-user fee, Google will unveil that. Some big names, corporations that would spend tons with Microsoft, could be ready to make the switch.

Date: 2007-02-08