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- Do you really need Office? Really? If the Feds don't, do we?
- Sounds like these users could get by just fine with Wordpad.[i]That being said, how many of your teachers are doing this sort of thing? Teachers need to create content, no doubt about it, but that content should be online, accessible, collaborative, and reusable. You don?t need Office for that.[/i]The problem,...
- Tags: Next Up, Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Google Apps
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Getting smarter about the smart grid. Standards group to tackle interoperability.
- OASIS aka the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is forming a new committee that will focus on creating Web services models for things such as exchanging dynamic pricing, reliability and emergency signal alerts across the smart grid. The group is called the OASIS Energy...
- Tags: The Group Inc., Interoperability, Grid, OASIS, Standards, NIST, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- VMware's vision: Clouds everywhere
- While I was making my way out to San Francisco for OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/Cloudworld, VMware issued a press release stating that they were acquiring Spring Source, a supplier of Platform as a Service offerings. This, I believe, opens the door for VMware to offer a nearly complete, end-to-end solution...
- Tags: Solution, Data Center, Open Source, PaaS, Vision, Supplier, VMware Inc., Tool, SpringSource, Spring Framework, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Are health IT vendors trying to pull a fast one?
- Not sure about your last question, i guess he would be the best person...to ask.I think that sage, GE, siemans and mckesson do have the experience necessary to make good decisions, but these are also the guys who make software for the healthcare field.Maybe their vested interest also includes self...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Quality, HIT Standards Committee, Kibbe, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Cisco Live! - CEO Chambers on Collaboration Business Value
- The above video clips from my handheld Flip are from John Chambers Cisco Live! keynote address today and are specifically two edits about Cisco's strategic perspective on collaboration and Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise. In the second edit Chambers talks about Cisco's business architectural re-engineering...
- Tags: Web, Collaboration, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference: Aggregate and Organize
- I finally made it to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference with my record intact. That record would be that I have NEVER in 15 years of flying to Boston a hundred times, NEVER, repeat again, NEVER been on time both ways. This one was resolved quickly because my flight...
- Tags: Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Collaborative Networks vs Social Networks
- During a telephone conversation between us last week Aaron Fulkerson of MindTouch said he was going to pick up on my Collaboration Networks meme, and he has now produced a solid post on this topic. Aaron takes on the number one issue plaguing...
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Network, Tool, Aaron, Information Fabric, Collaborative Network, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- The Open Cloud Manifesto: Whats Up With That?
- This morning, to a lot of pre-launch buzz, the Open Cloud Manifesto OCM, spearheaded by IBM, launched officially, much to no one's surprise. The idea behind the OCM is that there exist a body consisting of many companies - and in the future, many, many companies, that would semi-formally agree...
- Tags: Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto without Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Microsoft?
- IBM and other players on Monday will launch its Open Cloud Manifesto, a call to make cloud computing "open as all other IT technologies." But the list of companies that didn't sign on to the manifesto is telling. Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce never signed on. Google was on a preliminary...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Standards, Manifesto, IT Industry, Quality, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
- There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...
- Tags: Dion Hinchcliffe, Itasca, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, Mashup, Mashup Exchange, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Serena, SnapLogic, Web
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA
- The striking contrast between the stories that we've been hearing lately about the slow going of SOA initiatives in the enterprise and the vibrant and rapidly growing ecosystems similar to them on the consumer Web has been generating a lot of debate and discussion in the enterprise IT community recently....
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, SOA, Organization, Enterprise, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'
- When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...
- Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- DMTF Accepts New Format for Portable Virtual Machines
- I just read a press release that indicates that the Distributed Management Task Force DMTF has accepted a new format for portable virtual machine files that was submitted by Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft, VMware and XenSource. Although this announcement seems just another in an endless series of attempts by vendors...
- Tags: Information Technology, Standards, Virtual Machine, DMTF, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Free Software Foundation: No GPLv3 exemptions for Microsoft
- It took the Free Software Foundation almost two months. But the organization has finally issued an official statement regarding Microsoft's claim that it won't be bound by terms of the GNU General Public License GPL version 3 as part of its patent-protection deals with open-source vendors. In...
- Tags: GPL, Novell Inc., Free Software Foundation, Microsoft Corp., GPLv3, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- VMware starts road show ahead of planned IPO
- VMware starts road show ahead of planned IPOTIPBuy all the stock you can on opening day. This one is a winner.Success Story involving VmWareYesterday, after 6 months of trying, decision makers finally gave the go ahead to install the free server version of VMware at one of my shops....
- Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Investment, Operating systems, IPO, VMware Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- SOA Insights analysts on Web 3.0, Google's role in semantics, and the future of UDDI
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. [UPDATE: Some good discussion.]The notion of a world wide web that anticipates a user's needs, and adds a more human touch to mere surfing and searching, has long been a desire and goal. Yet how closer are we to a more "semantic" web?...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, UDDI, Open Source, Web 3.0, API, SOA, Semantic Web, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- SOA and SaaS convergence points to new market demand for 'integration-as-a-service'
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Cape Clear Software.Take SOA and SaaS to their natural maturation and adding more interoperability and integration into the online services mix becomes inevitable. When standardized services come from a variety of sources, then a variety of means to connect them makes more...
- Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Podcasts, Internet, Enterprise 2.0, datacenters, convergence, Cape Clear, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Microsoft absent from open standards movement around SOA
- Back when Web services standards were being devised and made part of an open standards approach to XML-based loosely coupled services interoperability, Microsoft was head of the pack. It was one of the main supporters of the WS-* family of specifications that found a home at the Organization for the...
- Tags: Windows, Web Technology, Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, Microsoft, Intellectual Property, datacenters, .NET
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- SOA-Web 2.0: a lot in common, but two centers of gravity
- "We’re continuing to see more clearly that Web 2.0 and SOA really are largely (but not 100%) the same concepts that merely lay on different â€" if fairly different â€" parts of the software continuum." -Dion HinchliffeZDNet colleague Dion Hinchliffe has been watching the mashup developing between SOA and Web...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- BriefingsDirect SOA analysts explore converged governance and the new SOA Consortium
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.The role and importance of governance is growing. As enterprises embrace governance, risk and compliance GRC platforms, as well SOA governance approaches, are these capabilities headed for a mash-up, if not technically than at least operationally? Do they lead to an uber governance that...
- Tags: SOA Governance, SOA, Podcasts, management, IT Service Management, Interarbor Solutions, Enterprise 2.0, Application Lifecycle Management, Software Infrastructure, SOA architect, SAP, ITIL, IT Management, business intelligence
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
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