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IBM: concern about SOA maturity is sooo 2004

Some analysts say SOA has yet to prove itself. However, the two biggest IT infrastructure vendors say SOA has moved well beyond the "prove-it" stage. IBM, which sometimes can be very tepid about ballyhooing some of its most well-respected technologies think iSeries and AIX appears to be anything but...

Tags: General, Vendor Watch

Blog posts 2007-05-23

IBM sets up SOA as the major brand consolidator of the age

IBM's SOA Impact event this week in Orlando has turned into a much larger gab-fest than I was expecting. This 4,200-attendee-strong, "SOA comes of age" milestone gathering might not be Burning Man for CIOs, but it's as close as you can get with your clothes on.And who would have thought...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, IT Service Management, IT Management, IBM

Blog posts 2007-05-21

Steve Mills on IBM's ERP strategy

Steve Mills on IBM's ERP strategyMore software IBM is ignoring?The article today about Exchange included a prediction that Microsoft would increase revenues at the expense of Notes. Presumably my guess because IBM was not investing to keep up with the features Microsoft will be providing.This article notes a software...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, IBM Corp., ERP Strategy, Steve Mills, software, ERP

Discussion threads 2006-11-30

Steve Mills on IBM's ERP strategy

Monkchip James Governor is at an IBM Software event in Stamford, Connecticut, and posted on IBM software chief Steve Mills comments on why his company doesnt get into the ERP applications business. Mills said: "Were a huge multibillion dollar ERP company. We just dont sell ERP applications, but services, systems...

Tags: ERP, Steve Mills, IBM Corp., Web Technology, General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2006-11-30

IBM's Mills touts managed clients

[Updated 08/15/05] Steve Mills, IBM's top software executive, sent a clear message during his keynote this afternoon at LinuxWorld that IBM's is ready to take on Microsoft with its Workplace managed client. He said the Linux on servers was maturing and that the next frontier for Linux is the client,...

Tags: IBM Corp., Linux, Steve Mills

Blog posts 2005-08-10

Cisco's Giancarlo and IBM's Mills: Actually, a certain amount of complexity can be 'worth it'

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo - San Francisco, CA - The main attraction on Day 2 of Gartner's semi-annual confab was what Gartner calls a Mastermind Panel. These sessions are where one or more of Gartner's rock star researchers go on the big stage to put vendor executives on the hot seat...

Tags: Charlie Giancarlo

Blog posts 2005-05-17

IBM: a leader, but at what cost to you?

I'm at the AO2004 conference, listening to IBM software chief Steve Mills give an overview of IBM's on demand strategy, which he calls a "state of business." At the core of IBM's strategy is providing software infrastructure/middleware. To that end, Mills said that IBM has acquired 35 software companies...

Tags: IBM Corp., Steve Mills

Blog posts 2004-07-14

Additional Resources

IBM takes its streaming computing software commercial

IBM on Wednesday will unveil the commercial version of its stream computing software, which is used for real-time analysis of data.  The commercial version of this IBM Research software will be dubbed System S. IBM will also establish the IBM European Stream Computing Center in Dublin, Ireland. In...

Tags: Software, Analytics, IBM Corp., System S, TD Securities, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Do you need to be a programmer to run a software company?

Do you need to be a programmer to run a software company?It's back to square oneIn fact, the new Internet-based platforms (Google App Engine, Microsofts upcoming platform to complement SSDS) are creating an entirely new platform. This change is as profound as the change in the early 80's. To succeed...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, software, software company

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

In the beginning (and the end) there was the mainframe

Mainframes never go away--they just find a new use. One thing that has always amazed me about the mainframe is how IBM has managed to cram it into any new technology frontier. Cloud computing? Mainframe. SaaS? Mainframe enabled. Centralized IT? You guess it: Mainframe. What's more notable...

Tags: IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-01

As SOA hype turns five, IBM turns to Smart SOA Social Network to bind communities of users

The global WebSphere ecology has trooped to Las Vegas this week for the IBM Impact 2008 conference, with a kick-off rally of sorts in the MGM Grand arena this morning. I saw Fleetwood Mac here at a Comdex, must have been 12 years ago. IBM has sure...

Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., WebSphere Ecology, PT, Smart SOA Social Network, Lotus Connections, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Nothing new for Ed Tech at Macworld?

Well, sort of. If you were looking for a new entry-level headless desktop, then no. If you were looking for a UMPC-style low cost Macbook, then no. A brilliantly-executed OLPC competitor for Steve Jobs' "One more thing" that never happened? No, nothing like that, I'm afraid....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Macworld, Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-01-15

BI leader Cognos gets scooped up by IBM

The thought on the street was that Cognos had to get bought soon, given the business intelligence BI consolidation land-grab of late -- punctuated by Oracle's acquisition of Hyperion and SAP's buy of Business Objects. So now Big Blue steps up to the plate, and for $5...

Tags: Cognos Inc., Leader, EMC Corp., IBM Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Business Structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Finance, Investment, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-11-12

IBM Symphony falls on deaf ears without open source e-mail, calendar

IBM's debut of its homegrown open source version of OpenOffice without e-mail or collaboration features is not surprising but nevertheless disappointing. On the one hand, Big Blue's recent endorsement and support and services plan for OpenOffice -- an acknowledgement of the obsolescence of SmartSuite and Workplace...

Tags: Collaboration, Microsoft Office, IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, IBM Corp., IBM Lotus Symphony, OpenOffice, Open Source, Groupware, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-09-18

Microsoft's 'service-enabled' approach is really only sorta-SOA

A new article on Redmondmag.com examines the fascinating topic of Microsoft and SOA. Microsoft's strategy -- pivoting on the strengths of Windows Communications Foundation WCF as well as (huh?) applications virtualization -- is different from earlier "embrace and extend" market assault campaigns.Microsoft's SOA strategy amounts to embrace and contract. They...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-08-03

Apple flunks green tech test

Apple flunks green tech testPuppy MillsI overheard 2 Greenpeace activist talking about how "puppy mills" have already started pre-ordering the octo-core Mac for their inhumane businesses...I'm sooo not buying that iPhone now!Great, and I was just about to get all over the iPhone, but I can't because now Greenpeace says...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Engineering, Desktops, green technology, Apple Inc., Greenpeace

Discussion threads 2007-04-04

IBM's Palmisano made $24.46 million in 2006

IBM CEO Sam Palmisanos total compensation--including salary, bonus and stock awards--was $24.46 million in 2006 and that sum could rise if he hits performance targets. That sum was outlined in excruciating detail by Big Blue in...

Tags: Palmisano, IBM Corp., compensation

Blog posts 2007-03-13

Another view: clear IT 'clutter' before thinking about SOA

Some call it IT "sprawl," and theres plenty of agreement that theres too much "clutter" in our enterprises. Is it wise to potentially add new infrastructure via SOA on top of what may already be a tangled mess of applications and systems?As reported by Brian Sommer in a new post...

Tags: Business ROI, General, Vendor Watch, Web Services

Blog posts 2007-02-19

Why Apple's board is standing by Jobs

Why Apple's board is standing by JobsCan you say DUH?Let's see, those that made the most money are standing behind the decision. Can you say DUH???Steve Jobs '08"...and an Apple on every desk."Take heartfor amongst this world of corporate corruption, greed and unethical behavior there shines a beacon of...

Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Marketing research, job, board, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., financial, vision

Discussion threads 2007-02-01

Pay checks for Gates, Ballmer fall short of $1 million

Pay checks for Gates, Ballmer fall short of $1 millionGate$ & Ballmer are incompetentand their compensation just confirms it.Any decent CEO at a large company would pull tens on millions, and even hundreds of mills in the oil industry.These M$ crooks won't get a raise untill they GPL windoze and...

Tags: Benefits, Taxes, OPEN SOURCE, LinuxGeek, Gates & Ballmer, salary, crook, Pay-Checks, Linux, Bill Gates, tax, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2006-10-04