Posted on December 21, 2007 by Judith
I love the end of the year. I get to sneak out of the office for a few days and stay off of airplanes. I also have a chance to look ahead to the new year. I like making predictions. Sometimes, I am years ahead of the market; other times I am able to hit [...]
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Posted on December 15, 2007 by Judith
I have just gotten back from the Object Management Group’s SOA Consortium meeting. This is a very good advocacy group consisting of primarily corporate customers with a few collection of assorted vendors and integrators. It is a very thoughtful and pragmatic group. I have been a member of the steering committee for [...]
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Posted on December 11, 2007 by Judith
I had an interesting meeting with a company called TopCoder the other day. The premise is actually quite simple: conduct contests with monetary prizes given to the software developer who writes the best programs. What started out as an academic exercise has evolved into an intriguing software company.
The idea behind the company is [...]
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Posted on December 9, 2007 by Judith
I am back from SAP’s annual industry influencer conference. When I attend one of these meetings I typically take lots of notes on my laptop so that after the fact I can go back and make sense of what the executives actually said. It is a fascinating process. When I take these [...]
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Posted on December 5, 2007 by Judith
I had a long talk the other day with a customer who had just decided to implement SAP’s Business by Design hosted solution. The company (it wouldn’t be fair to him to name the company) is about $150 million in revenue and made the decision to move away from a home grew, inefficient system [...]
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Posted on December 4, 2007 by Judith
I am attending SAP’s “Industry Influencer” conference this week. It is clearly an interesting time for SAP. The company’s platform is evolving both in scope, architecture, and markets. SAP is a company that likes control and likes to control its own world and the world of its customers. The message was clear. [...]
Filed under: Oracle, SAP, service oriented architecture, software industry | Tagged: , composite applications, IBM, middleware, NetWeaver, SAP, SOA | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 3, 2007 by Judith
Last week I wrote about WaveMaker and its new Web 2.0 development environment comparing it to PowerBuilder. One of the big problems that someone pointed out to me is that PowerBuilder was proprietary. Because old software never dies, IT organizations are still coping with old PowerBuilder applications that they have to support. [...]
Filed under: Powersoft, Web 2.0, software industry | Tagged: cSharp, Java, Powerbuilder, WaveMaker, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
