With the recent introductions of Microsoft's expanded virtualization platforms, the Azure cloud services, and first look at Windows 7, I am beginning to believe that quite possibly Ray Ozzie has...

I posted a couple weeks ago about an effort at Hewlett-Packard to develop a lightweight, battery-conscious operating system to enable users to access some of their most commonly used applications...

I don't want to make too much out of the information I am about to relay, but I do want to point it out as an example of the sort of detrimental effect that the badly botched release and......

I made fun of Managed Objects new social-networking influenced CMDB interface product myCMDB when it was announced last month, critiquing both the kindergarten playground name of the software and the...

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...

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...

I recently wrote a post on my other blog reacting to a story I had read about a New York consulting firm using Google Apps' Gmail as an emergency replacement mail server for a client whose single...

© donjd2 This is probably only of interest to the frequent flyers among you, but I thought I'd post it because I've been intrigued by the site Farecast.com since its inception a year or two...

I read Larry Dignan's summary of Nash/KPMG IT leadership survey yesterday which shows a leadership core in the IT industry that has, as Dignan puts it, "...one eye on the exit." Between...

I've mentioned a few times in this blog that I believe Microsoft and Google are not truly in competition with one another, but instead that they represent two entirely different philosophies of...

Since you want unbiased commentary, I thought it would be best if I put up a link to this eWeek article quoting Bill Gates talking about Google at this week's Sharepoint conference in Seattle. He...

I feel like I should say something about the whole Microsoft proposing to buy Yahoo today thing, but honestly I'm not sure that it ultimately will matter much to the average CIO. Certainly, as...

I just saw an excellent post from Todd Bishop at the Seattle P-I analyzing the speech patterns of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates during their respective keynote speeches this past week. It seems like a...

I love it every time when Nick Carr pulls out his lighter and sets fire to someone's sacred cow, not because he is always right, but because the ensuing controversy almost always manages to pull...

I've got my first "Vision Thing" post! After all, nothing better deserves the category than a book originally subtitled "Our New Digital Destiny" (later changed to a more...

I'm starting a new category of posts here, provisionally called "The Vision Thing." The role of the CIO is in some flux and there are and will be a great deal of debates before it...