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Jason Stamper's Blog: July 2007 Archives
You're bought! Sir Alan sells Amstrad
July 31, 2007
It surprised me over the past few quarters how, for all of the column inches written about The Apprentice, I didn’t read anyone writing about the fact that you probably wouldn’t want to work for Amstrad as the firm seemed to have lost direction and most of its financials were going in the wrong direction. Apart from me, of course, because I wrote several blogs on the subject (see below). Well Sir Alan has just announced -- surprise surprise -- that he has sold the firm to BskyB, lock, stock and defunct e-m@ailer.
How does enterprise architecture fit with SOA?
July 26, 2007
There’s a nice piece by my colleague Tony Baer on the interface (or lack of it) between enterprise architecture and SOA in today’s CBR, here. Tony was at the Open Group's Enterprise Architecture Practitioners conference in Austin, Texas, and he explains where and to what extent the EA and SOA camps are coming together. The news is not particularly positive.
Ironically a few weeks back I recorded a podcast with EA guru Jan Popkin, founder and CEO of Popkin Software, which was bought by Telelogic a couple of years back (Telelogic now being bought by IBM). My questions for Jan? How EA relates to SOA, and whether EA should be embarked upon in advance of an SOA strategy. Listen to the podcast if you like here.
As always your esteemed comments are most welcome.
SAP cocks up its figures
July 19, 2007
For a company that is meant to help enterprises gain better control of their financial and other business processes, there will be ashen faces at SAP after it put out preliminary Q2 figures with a glaring error. At least, an error that we spotted (so yes, well done CBR).
IT managers couldn’t give a fig for ‘green IT’
Saving the planet is going to have to wait until IT managers can control IT costs and get their security in place – that’s the finding of a new study.
Top Tips for Employee Blogging
July 05, 2007
Many employers have wondered whether or not it is a good idea to let their employees write blogs, worried that they may criticise the firm unduly, voice opinions that create a bad impression of the company, or worse still get it into legal hot water.
With the right ground rules in place none of these should be insurmountable, but what are the right ground rules? Below are some suggested top tips from Bit10 Ltd, a UK-based firm that offers various services such as website design; usability and accessibility testing and consultancy; web site performance analytics and so on.
What do you think of these – do you agree with them all? I’m not so sure about number 4: is it a good idea for an employee blogger to be free to accept advertising from third parties?
Anyway, see what you think:
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