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- How to win free books at JavaRanch
- JavaRanch is giving away free books to developers. Here's how it works: every week they invite authors of interesting books to visit, answer questions, and share their knowledge. All you have to do to win is participate in the discussion. On Friday, they comb the forums for qualifying messages and...
- Tags: Google Inc., JavaRanch, Programming Languages, Advertising & Promotion, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Weekend rant: cloud computing myths
- Cloud Computing - from myth to reality View more presentations from Jon Collins. (tags: cloud computing paas) I have a great deal of respect for Jon Collins, managing director of FreeForm Dynamics, a British boutique analyst firm. He applies the kind of factual rigor that is...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Can project portfolio management prevent IT train wrecks?
- Can project portfolio management prevent IT train wrecks?Expecting Program Managers to Walk on Water?I agree with Jon Collins in that a REALLY good prgram manager can be all the difference between "mission accomplished" from the community's point of view and homicidal frustration, regardless of time or money.However, that PM must...
- Tags: Project management, Tools & Techniques, project portfolio management, train-wreck, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Industry analysts and corporate weasels
- Industry analysts and corporate weaselsThere are shades of grayYour point is well-taken, however pitching issue was raised by the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations, as quoted in the post.I think it comes down to shades of gray: when does the briefing become merely a selling exercise? Also, what about briefings...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Strategy, weasel, corporate weasel
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Sleazy analysts and corporate weasels
- IT buyers look to industry analysts for wisdom in understanding the past, counsel in handling the present, and advice when future plans go awry. Unfortunately, this symbiotic relationship between analysts and their corporate masters can include a complicated mix of mutual respect and fear, punctuated by...
- Tags: Analyst, Blog, Business Ethics, Blogging, Leadership, Management, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-09
- Can project portfolio management prevent IT train wrecks?
- Â Project portfolio management PPM vendors promise to help customers juggle competing investment priorities, reduce IT failures, and improve alignment between technology and their business. Given these impressive benefits, it's worth examining what's required to successfully implement PPM. To learn more about the issues, I attended ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Project Portfolio Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Some unabashed predictions for the year ahead in SOA
- "We can safely say from reports that have come out in 2006 that somewhere between 10% and 90% of enterprises will be doing SOA." -Dana Gardner For SOA in 2006, there was always something happening, but nothing going on. For 2007, expect more C-level cred, but internal bickering...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights analysts review 2006, make predictions for 2007
- Read a full transcript of the podcast.Our cast of independent IT analysts assembled for the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 6, take on the Year in Review task with gusto. Join Steve Garone, Joe McKendrick, Jon Collins and Tony Baer for our discussion, hosted and moderated by myself, Dana...
- Tags: Internet, IONA, Oracle, Java, .NET, Red Hat, JBoss, HP, Web Services, IBM, Windows, Microsoft, SOA Governance, SOA, Interarbor Solutions, Podcasts, Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Open Source
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 2: Gardner, Garone and Collins on Virtualization and the End of ERP
- Read a transcript of the podcast.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, a weekly discussion and dissection of Service Oriented Architecture SOA and related news and events with a panel of independent IT industry analysts and guests. Yours truly, Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, is your host...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Storage management, Utility computing, Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, ERP, virtualization, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-10-22
- Does SOA really exist?
- RedMonks Cote apparently has been doing a lot of thinking about how much of SOA is marketecture, and how much is the real deal. The answer lies somewhere in between, he concludes. "The technical ideas are great. Its the further evolution of OO. In fact, its...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, RedMonks Cote
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
- Is programming dead?
- Is programming dead?...programming is 'alive and kicking'..http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/26/1082831478338.htmlAbolutelyMDA cannot replace pure programmig. "Three Amigos" although setting standards and putting a lot of valuable scientific work are wrong. Modeling is a different species and base algorithms are not part of it. Also modelling does not address many other issues like for example...
- Tags: Development tools, modeling, programming, Microsoft .NET
- Discussion threads 2004-04-26
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