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Next big thing?

What will be the next big thing? Not Service Oriented Architectures, Open Source, or Software as Service, argues Mike Nevins, former managing partner of McKinsey & Company's Global High Tech Practice at SandHill.com. He contends "all three will miss the mark for one simple reason. They don't address the real...

Tags: Zyme, software, Mike Nevins

Blog posts 2005-07-19

War of the worlds

As if the software world was not facing enough threats, the hardware world now threatens to undermine software business models left and right. New chip architectures and other hardware trends now raise the prospect of software industry upheaval. "The real losers," according to a recent piece in The Economist, could...

Tags: software

Blog posts 2005-07-15

Bad relationship...

The backlash against the software industry continues. But the feeling seems to have drifted from anger to disappointment to bewilderment. At SandHill Group's Software 2005 conference last week, representatives of the corporate IT world expressed their view that software companies are totally failing to address the challenges and priorities of...

Tags: software

Blog posts 2005-05-02

Out of the box

What does SOA mean for the future of the software industry? Who wins and who loses? Good questions. But the answers are not predetermined. The future will unfold in relation to the actions that software vendors take.John Hagel, author of thegroundbreakingOut of the Box, offers a few guidelines to help...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2005-02-22

Additional Resources

Analyst thinks Google should buy Rearden Commerce

In his latest "Alert Highlight," it might as well be called a blog, AMR’s Bruce Richardson muses over the "Google Economy," a subject not suffering from any lack of coverage these days. His final of five points stood out and deserves some attention:No. 5: Google should buy Rearden CommerceWhy...

Tags: AMR&rsquo, s Bruce Richardson, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2005-10-28

The great ESB squabble of 2005

Both my blogmates Dan Farber and Britton Manasco have provided pointers to excellent information on what enterprise service buses ESBs are all about. However, there is some confusion -- if not outright sniping -- over who invented ESBs to begin with. Datamonitor ComputerWire's Jason Stamper picked up on...

Tags: Sonic Software, Enterprise Service Bus

Blog posts 2005-08-08