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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on May 28, 2009
Despite the across-the-board pay cuts HP CEO Mark Hurd made (and I lauded) two months ago, the latest quarterly results have proven disappointing and the outlook no better, leading the company to anno...
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SOA
by Scott Wilson on May 26, 2009
So I have a question for the audience: when you are measuring ROI on SOA projects, are you looking at just the SOA team production, or do you look at secondary effects?
That's assuming you look ...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on May 22, 2009
Amazon has removed another significant obstacle to enterprise adoption of Amazon Web Services with the introduction of AWS Import/Export to allow easier movement of large datasets in and out of the se...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on May 20, 2009
TechFlash has posted an interview with CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan of Infosys. It's worth a read if you're trying to get a sense of the upheaval in the offshoring market. Gopalakrishnan is a featu...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on May 19, 2009
I see Gartner is finally getting on board the "Skip Vista" bandwagon, a bit too late to be of much use to any audience which might have made productive use of the analysis, but anyway, you k...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on May 19, 2009
BusinessWeek details some of the industry speculation taking place prior to the next major scheduled release of the iPhone operating system in June. According to the story, the carrier is considering ...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on May 17, 2009
Today's complimentary "[SAAS_PROVIDER_OUTAGE] Shows Cloud Not Ready For Enterprise" story brought to you by eWeek: "Google Outage Shows the Cloud May Not Be Enterprise-Ready."
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on May 14, 2009
So, speaking of revolutions, it strikes me that this one isn't being evangelized very well. Nick Carr has turtled, turning off blog comments and going largely off the radar after the brief flurry ...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on May 12, 2009
Maybe I'm just overly optimistic (that's a rare accusation for me) but I'm having trouble thinking that the combination of technology advancements made these past few years and the current...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on May 11, 2009
There are few things more controversial in the world of IT HR than the H1B foreign-worker visa program. CIOs, as a rule, are fans; the ability to hire from an increasingly large pool of eager and well...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on May 8, 2009
My apologies for two Microsoft posts in a row; yeah, they are starting to bore me too. But CIOs can't afford to ignore the prospects of the 800 pound gorilla in the industry.
There is this meme g...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on May 5, 2009
In the same vein as my "Did Vista jump the shark?" post last month, Jason Hiner at ZDnet posted yesterday on two trends that are conspiring against Microsoft.
Hiner is talking about web-ba...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on May 4, 2009
The situational application community is not really on the radar of most CIOs with whom I am acquainted, which is a bit like saying that in 2000, the agile development community was not on their radar...
