Posted on May 14, 2008 by Judith
I had a very interesting conversation with Jeff Barr, the senior web services evangelist at Amazon. I have known Jeff for almost 15 years. In those days Jeff was one of the architects at a company called Visix, an early graphical development environment that was ahead of its time. Visix’s software development environment [...]
Filed under: Amazon.com, Google, SaaS, Virtualization, cloud computing, ebay, service management, service oriented architecture, software development | Tagged: Amazon.com, cloud computing, ebay, Google, Salesforce.com, SOA, Visix, web services | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 13, 2008 by Judith
I was minding my own business and twittering (I think that is how you say it) when I noticed a breaking news story from the Wall Street Journal: HP would be acquiring EDS. This is quite a significant transition for HP that will help transform the company into a new position in the market. Now, [...]
Filed under: BEA, EDS, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Tibco, cloud computing | Tagged: EDS, HP, mainframe software | 4 Comments »
Posted on May 12, 2008 by Judith
A few months ago I wrote a blog entry criticizing Twitter . I was not sure I got the relevance of this micro-blogging site. So, I decided that it made sense to spend time getting deeply involved in a Twitter community to test it and see if my opinion would change.
Here are my [...]
Filed under: software industry, twitter | Tagged: blogging, innovation, social networking, twitter | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 5, 2008 by Judith
I spent part of last week at CA’s (Computer Associates in the old days) industry analyst meeting. My overall impression is very positive. CA is a complicated company with a complicated history. Often when a company has a near death experience, it either dies or changes. I have seen many companies that [...]
Filed under: IBM, Virtualization, service management, service oriented architecture, software industry, systems management | Tagged: CA, Computer Associates, datacenter management, Enterprise Management, governance, security, service management, SOA, System z | No Comments »
