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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on June 30, 2008
Even Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs), at least according to vendor Managed Objects. With their unveiling of "myCMDB" at Gartner's IT Infrastructure, Operations & Managemen...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on June 30, 2008
There is a broad disparity between the views of software manufacturers and their customers with regard to who is ultimately in control of the software running on the customer machine. Businesses (and ...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on June 26, 2008
That's the word on the street at the moment, at least. Just when I was looking for some major company to demonstrate the viability of skipping Vista (as I have been suggesting) despite the discont...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on June 25, 2008
I was going to avoid posting anything about this week's departure of Bill Gates from his full-time role at Microsoft; everyone else is making a big deal over it, and I suppose if sentiment is a fa...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on June 25, 2008
Interesting post from Ken Hardin over at IT Business Edge titled "A Crotchety Manager's View on Telecommuting" outlining some new and critical perspectives of telecommuting by staff. Thi...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on June 25, 2008
I may be obsessing way too much on the management dilemma posed by the millenial generation for CIOs. It turns out that IT is, like, totally boring, and they don't want to work for you old PHBs an...
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Enterprise Hardware
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by Scott Wilson on June 25, 2008
Fortune has a short analysis piece up looking at Apple's need and odds of penetrating the enterprise market with the iPhone.
They see the same basic problem with the premise that I do: Apple...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on June 24, 2008
If you have half an eye on the markets today, you've probably noticed Yahoo stock going up like a roman candle again, on the strength of rumors that *shudder* the Microsoft deal to purchase the co...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on June 24, 2008
It seemed to me when I saw this that I had already heard about it and mentioned it before, but I can't find any entry discussing it... so this must be old age, then. But it appeals to my fascinati...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on June 23, 2008
First, a question: do broad, generational stereotypes extend across different cultures? And if so, to what extent?
I ask because of this article in Silicon.com about "boring" IT curriculum ...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on June 23, 2008
Indian off-shoring services giant Wipro will expand their existing product design services to include actual manufacturing of prototypes, according to CIO Magazine.
Wipro plans to work with third-par...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on June 21, 2008
Just a quick link; Michael Krigsman of the IT Project Failures blog has a post up now with some analysis of Google's AppEngine failure that occured last week.
Krigsman believes that the failure i...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on June 20, 2008
In a move which surely has Steve Ballmer tossing chairs around the office this week, China has announced that it will be investigating the Redmond company for every other major political entity's ...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on June 20, 2008
So says Jim Porell of IBM in this ITBusinessEdge interview.
Mainframes are so off the radar of the average IT department these days, and thus of the industry as a whole, that I don't think I have...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on June 18, 2008
Google's AppEngine cloud computing service joined the hallowed ranks of other burgeoning cloud service providers yesterday with its first widespread outage. Between 9AM and roughly 2PM Pacific, a ...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on June 18, 2008
I have to admit I had never heard this one before; usually when you hear debates about coding style and quality, they are centered around domestic versus off-shore coders, or the schools they came fro...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on June 17, 2008
With the June 30 demise of Windows XP rapidly approaching, there is a lot of speculation among those of us who are paid to speculate on what will happen to those hold-outs who have been demanding that...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on June 16, 2008
On cue, Senator Herb kohl, chair of the Senate Commerce Committee's Anti-Trust sub-committee, has stepped up to the podium and announced that the group will be rushing to scrutinize the impending ...
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SOA
by Scott Wilson on June 16, 2008
When I first discussed the concept of "JaBoWS," the acronym coined by Joe McKendrick standing for "Just a Bunch of Web Services," or in other words, not SOA, I expressed the opinio...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on June 14, 2008
Did anyone coin that yet? Am I the first? I don't know who came up with the whole "Microhoo" thing but I am sure they got their fifteen minutes of fame and I hope to emulate their monume...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on June 12, 2008
Now; why can't someone do this to clear up my favorite modern-day undersea mystery?
Still keeping my eyes and ears open for any additional information. I continue to be surprised that the story h...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on June 11, 2008
In a move which is good for business both coming and going, Microsoft has indicated that it intends to commit an additional $20 million dollars to its Project Shiksha in India, which trains school tea...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on June 10, 2008
No, it's not Dell versus HP. Or Apple versus everyone else. It's cheap, commodity hardware versus expensive, specialized hardware.
This has always been a point of debate in any sort of hardwa...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on June 9, 2008
I don't want to sound like I am channeling Nick Carr again or anything, but my recent conversion to mash-up skeptic has got me thinking about the role of experts in a world looking for wisdom from...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on June 7, 2008
So reports CNET News, and it seems not unlikely, considering Steve likes to have a few zingers available during his WorldWide Developer Conference keynotes.
Third-party developers have been frantical...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on June 5, 2008
No, I haven't gone all political on you. I just wanted to point you at a case study by David Carr over on CIOZone.com about the IT backend of newly almost-certainly-the-Democratic-presidential-nom...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on June 4, 2008
Microsoft, it turns out, is not a big fan of advice that you skip Windows Vista in favor of taking a closer look at Windows 7. They've put out a new whitepaper listing five, count 'em five, re...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on June 4, 2008
Looks like I am not the only one looking at ultra-mobile PC options for the business... Between The Lines discusses some of the upcoming UMPC offerings which may serve as suitable business stand-ins f...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on June 4, 2008
So if they didn't exactly make the big reveal last week, Microsoft at least scooped some mud out regarding the next release of Windows. In doing so, they poked a growing meme about the product rig...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on June 3, 2008
I rarely do Product Reviews in this space, and I'm not sure how many CIOs this is relevant for anyway, but I wanted to rave a bit on my little Asus 2G Surf Eee PC.
As mentioned previously, I'...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on June 2, 2008
This AP article is basically just another of those "Look at how all these rustic industries are being transformed by the power of information technology!" but I think it's pretty cool, a...
