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Comment on How Amazon cashes in on its Cloud by Andrew Biss

Andrew Biss — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:44:37 +0000

Amazon’s timing is great for ISVs moving from on-premise to SaaS. EC2 and S3 allow ISVs to focus on building SaaS solutions without worrying about the infrastructure. This is critical as SaaS success needs operations expertise, and it is exactly those operations skills ISVs do not have. Access to many processors - on demand and pay-as-you-go - opens the door to a new class of business applications. I am sure we will see innovation take off as a direct result of cloud computing.

Comment on How Amazon cashes in on its Cloud by Ken Oestreich

Ken Oestreich — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:49:36 +0000

Amazon’s infrastructure also implies something about the the direction for corporate IT cost. Amazon charges about $0.10 per CPU hour - which equates to a little under $800/year/CPU. Absolutely no enterprise with traditional IT systems can come close to this loaded cost of operations. Amazon gets this cost basis b/c they use a “utility computing” infrastructure to manage IT. I suspect/hope that IT professionals in other enterprises catch wind of this, and begin to change the paradigm under whichtheir IT is currently managed — to become this “utility” style infrastructure within their 4 walls.

Comment on What does it mean if HP buys EDS? by adam Hartung

adam Hartung — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:08:12 +0000

Merging the lousy performing EDS with the weak HP services unit does not bode for better health. The leaders are Infosys, TCS, Cognizant and WiPro. HP needs to innovate and better develop its global delivery model - not try to see if it can “fix” the badly performing EDS. REad more at http://www.ThePhoenixPrinciple.com

Comment on What does it mean if HP buys EDS? by Does HP have IBMenis Envy? On EDS » Delusions of Adequacy

Does HP have IBMenis Envy? On EDS » Delusions of Adequacy — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:51:57 +0000

[...] the neither Pro or Con side, Judith Hurwitz pointed out to me that EDS has a significant mainframe business, something that HP has steadfastly [...]

Comment on What does it mean if HP buys EDS? by amadeus

amadeus — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:50:25 +0000

it is a fact now. consider EDS - An HP Company for now on.

Comment on What does it mean if HP buys EDS? by Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:47:37 +0000

HP won the GM CAD services contract from EDS in 2006, and has been struggling to match the level of service that EDS had established for GM. A lot of former EDS Unix people are working for HP. Now they’ll bring the rest of us back into the GM contract. Maybe now we’ll get Shanghai off of our help desk!

Comment on Can Twitter Trigger Innovation? by Paula Thornton

Paula Thornton — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:01:09 +0000

Not only is it a channel, it’s been turned into a platform. Witness the tremendous number of apps being spawned simply to provide ‘function’ and because it’s ‘fun’ to do so — the true potential companies could leverage if they’d simply be willing to ‘let their resources go’, in epic moses-esque proportions.

Twitter is a litmus strip. Watch and assess.

Comment on Can Twitter Trigger Innovation? by James Urquhart

James Urquhart — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:58:35 +0000

One interesting use of Twitter is workstreaming, in which one keeps track of tasks, activities and time usage through constant documentation via Twitter. Done in a “private” account, this can be extremely powerful for the “loosely organized” such as myself, as it doesn’t require a “system” to use effectively–provided one can be disciplined in reviewing the streams, and honest in evaluating its content.

When coworkers and management are let into the loop, it can also be an effective replacement for “face time”. Excellent for the “at home” worker, such as myself.

I think Twitter is also incredibly effective as a news distribution network. Think “AP for the little guy”.

Comment on The Desktop as a Service: Can Desktone be a Focal Point? by Desktone: Client Virtualization in the Cloud | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog)

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:16:38 +0000

[...] Hurwitz has also written about Desktone in The Desktop as a Service: Can Desktone be a Focal Point? We were both impressed and we are both inclined to believe that Desktone will gain [...]

Comment on Is a Hedge Fund Manager Right About SOA? by Peter Cranstone

Peter Cranstone — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:56:25 +0000

Judith,

You just hit the nail on the head. SOA introduces the “new” stack or more appropriately the “API”.

SOA is about business strategy and replaces the old monolithic approach to application building in a Web environment.

I’ll be pointing to this blog from my own.

Cheers,

Peter
5o9 Inc.

Comment on When does the data center become the cloud? by Charlie Bess

Charlie Bess — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:51:00 +0000

One of the things I believe folks are overlooking is that it is highly likely that the kind of things that will be done with cloud computing will be quite different. Sure you could run the same relatively linear solutions that you run today, like ERP systems… but why stop there. With relatively unlimited access to large scale parallel processing you could begin to perform functions that are designed for that environment, in addition to what we think of as traditional IT. This shift will radically change the type and amount of value generated by IT. After all, IT was created to create value for the enterprise, not just cut costs.

Comment on Is HP ready to rock and roll with its investments in software, hardware, and services? by Thompson

Thompson — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:22:17 +0000

I know Opsware (please see my correct spelling with only one Cap), Marc, and Ben (founders), and when we look back ten years from now, we will realize that Opsware was the most strategic software aquisition that HP has made in the last 10 years. But, looking back is always easy…

Comment on A business process mess at United Airlines by Maryzc

Maryzc — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:48:29 +0000

well done, brother

Comment on When not to salvage the legacy application by pbarnhart

pbarnhart — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:00:42 +0000

Great position on this - I have faced many a potential customer who want me to retool/reuse/revamp a legacy web application.

Comment on When not to salvage the legacy application by When not to salvage the legacy application « PhilSpace

When not to salvage the legacy application « PhilSpace — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:52:17 +0000

[...] Hurwitz’s post on When not to salvage the legacy application should be mandatory reading for anyone getting ready to retool/revamp/reuse their current software [...]

Comment on When not to salvage the legacy application by c keene

c keene — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:00:21 +0000

Mary Loomis used to have a “meteoric theory of data”: data never moves, it just lands and sticks! Much the same could be said of applications. We have run across many many companies who moan about all the “legacy” apps they have deployed. But when you ask them what they are going to do about it, they just shrug. I think wrap and extend is a better model for legacy migration than rip and replace. I also think skills migration for development talent is more important for the enterprise than app migration.

Comment on Is Infrastructure moving to the clouds? by Yoram Kochol

Yoram Kochol — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:30:58 +0000

Yes. Infrastructure is moving to the clouds. In fact it is not only infrastructure but also application development ,deployment and operations. In fact the full IT lifeCycle is moving to the clouds. I write about it in http://mashupfactory.wordpress.com

Comment on Is WaveMaker the Web 2.0 version of PowerBuilder? by When not to salvage the legacy application « Judith Hurwitz’s Weblog

When not to salvage the legacy application « Judith Hurwitz’s Weblog — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:46:01 +0000

[...] Silverlight and Adobe’s Air are adding a new level of sophistication to the momentum. WaveMaker, that I discussed in an earlier entry is making a contribution as [...]

Comment on Why is SAP buying Business Objects? by Business » Why is SAP buying Business Objects? Judith Hurwitz’s Weblog

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:36:31 +0000

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Comment on Is there a Link Between Social Computing and Business Networks? by Vanessa DiMauro

Vanessa DiMauro — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:19:51 +0000

Judith,
Great blog entry about professional networking tools that are specifically designed to leverage collaboration… Internal professional networking is a sleeping giant of the professional networking space. Tools like Beehive are designed for traditionally underserved knowledge management activities within an organization. This is the beginning of an important trend. Companies are just starting to truly use collaboration tools to support business processes, open the conversation across inter-company heiarchy, surface cross team collaboration points, and when they do they will emerge stronger, smarter and more competitively agile.

Comment on How I learned to love the Mac: confessions of a PC user by 10,000 Holes in Blackburn, Lancashire | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:53:15 +0000

[...] and then diligently invested in a Mac. The rest of the story is hers to tell. You can read How I learned to love the Mac: confessions of a PC user with a click of the [...]

Comment on Packaging SOA: What serves the customer? by Service-Oriented Architecture mobile edition

Service-Oriented Architecture mobile edition — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:23:04 +0000

[...] Hurwitz raises some of the pros and cons of SOA buy versus build in a recent post, and talked about the understandable confusion a CIO was feeling toward moving to SOA via packaged [...]

Comment on Can Microsoft overcome the Google Sneak Attack with Yahoo? by Robin Bloor

Robin Bloor — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:10:37 +0000

I did a fairly extensive post on my blog following our conversation, but couldn’t think of an easy solution to the branding issue.
How could Microsoft manage the Yahoo brand if the acquisition goes ahead?
It’s not gonna call itself Microhoo, that’s for sure.

Comment on The Google Sneak Attack: building a software giant under the radar by Can Microsoft overcome the Google Sneak Attack with Yahoo? « Judith Hurwitz’s Weblog

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:01:06 +0000

[...] perfect sense to me given the tremendous momentum behind Google. As I wrote last week about the Google Sneak Attack, it is clear that Google is both a media company and a company that is setting down a software [...]

Comment on SOA Lessons: The end of the hype cycle? Revisiting 2007 by Hype is Over! SOA is Real!! « Samisa Abeysinghe - Service Oriented Architecture

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:15:27 +0000

[...] is Over! SOA is Real!! In the blog entry on SOA Lessons: The end of the hype cycle? Revisiting 2007, Judith Hurwitz is talking about end of the hype and beginning of the reality for [...]