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 April 28, 2008 by Judith
I have been thinking a lot about the evolution of virtualization lately and so I was intrigued when a company I had never heard of called Desktone asked to come in for a briefing. When I heard that the company specialized on desktop virtualization I was intrigued. I was even more interested when [...]
Filed under: HP, IBM, Microsoft, SaaS, Virtualization, cloud computing, software industry | Tagged: Citrix, Desktone, desktop virtualization, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Virtualization, VMware | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 12, 2008 by Judith
One of the hardest things for organizations to do is to retire old applications. Unlike hardware that tends to be replaced on a regular cycle, old software sticks around way too long. It definitely over stays its welcome. I remember when I worked at John Hancock decades ago and watching as departments [...]
Filed under: Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, Web 2.0, customer experience, service oriented architecture, software industry | Tagged: Adobe, application modernization, business services, IBM, Microsoft, Nexaweb, RAI, WaveMaker, Web 2.0 | 3 Comments »
Posted on January 2, 2008 by Judith
I was looking through various online newsletters this morning and noticed a small item that said that AOL would no longer support the Netscape browser. Not a big story, of course but symbolic. There was a time when Netscape had ambitions to take on Microsoft. I’m adding a link here to a [...]
Filed under: AOL, Google, Microsoft, Netscape, software industry | Tagged: Google, Microsoft, Netscape | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: BEA, EMC, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Virtualization, Web 2.0, cloud computing, information management, service oriented architecture, software industry, systems management | Tagged: , BEA, cloud computing, data management, EMC, Google, HP, IBM, information managment, management software, Microsoft, Oslo, SaaS, SAP, SOA, Virtualization, VMware, Zoho | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: BEA, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, business process, software industry | Tagged: BEA, business process, IBM, innovation, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, SOA | No Comments »
Posted on November 30, 2007 by Judith
Some meetings are just fun (I can’t always say that..sometimes I just want to run away and hide under my desk). But my meeting today with WaveMaker reminded me of the type of meetings I had in the .com days. I admit I was excited about what I heard. Now a disclaimer — I [...]
Filed under: Adobe, Microsoft, Powersoft, Web 2.0, service oriented architecture, software industry | Tagged: ActiveGrid, Fat Client Syndrome, Jackbe, Kapow, Nexaweb, open source, Powersoft, WaveMaker, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 9, 2007 by Judith
Every year at about this time I attend IBM Software Group IT Industry Analyst meeting. This meeting is attended by about 90 industry analysts and about three times that number of IBM software group leaders, managers, and support staff. It is quite the event! While I can’t possibly talk about everything I [...]
Filed under: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SaaS, information management, service oriented architecture, software industry, systems management | Tagged: collaboration, IBM, ibmanalystconf07, integration, Lotus, Oracle, Rational, SaaS, SAP, software strategy, Tivoli, websphere | 4 Comments »
Posted on November 3, 2007 by Judith
Now that I am back from my trek to Redmond, I have time to come back to earth and think about what I heard. I think that several issues surfaced in my mind. Here are the three key issues that I think are worth more time:
1. We are at a turning point in [...]
Filed under: Apple, ESB, Enterprise Service Bus, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, cloud computing, software industry | Tagged: Amazon.com, Apple, cloud computing, computer industry, distributed computing, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, software industry | 3 Comments »
Posted on October 30, 2007 by Judith
I dragged myself to Redmond last night to attend Microsoft’s Fifth annual SOA and Business Process Management (BMP) conference. There are about 1,000 participants. Having watched Microsoft’s strategy evolve over many years, it is important to take a step back and see how the company is positioning its SOA and BMP strategies.
I will write [...]
Filed under: ESB, Enterprise Service Bus, Microsoft | 3 Comments »
