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- The difference between ‘cloud computing’ and SaaS? None whatsoever.
- Iona bought by Progress Software
- Last few days of Windows XP sales...
- Lombardi talks on-demand BPM
- Lessons in ‘Enterprise 2.0’. Lesson 1: don't mention Enterprise 2.0.
- 10 ways to cut software development costs
- Would the baddest Roadrunner please step forward
- Artist's impression of new 3G Apple iPhone revealed
- Enterprise 2.0 Conference off to Web 2.0-style start
- CBR Dining Club speaker named EMEA analyst of the year!
- Numara claims service desk management rivals are "going backwards"
Jason Stamper's Blog: June 2008 Archives
The difference between ‘cloud computing’ and SaaS? None whatsoever.
June 26, 2008
I don’t blame analysts and vendors for coming up with new terms for things that already exist: it falls under their job description.
But I have to object just a little when we have to come up with a new term for something that is all of 10 minutes old as it stands…. [click continue reading for more on this entry]…
Iona bought by Progress Software
I must be clairvoyant. It was only last week that I wrote how, “[Iona’s] board is apparently currently evaluating what it described in its 10Q as ‘strategic alternatives’ for the firm, no doubt thanks to ongoing concerns that its more modern technologies (Artix, FUSE etc) are not doing quite enough to make up for the gradual decline in its mature Orbix business (down 5% year over year in its latest quarter, to be precise).”
And so it came to pass: Iona has been acquired by Progress Software… [click continue reading for more on this story]…
Last few days of Windows XP sales...
June 24, 2008
With only a few days of Windows XP retail sales left, Microsoft played down reports that customers were 'panic-buying'. Pic source: /kallu on Flickr, CC licence.
Microsoft says Windows XP will no longer be available for purchase from Microsoft for general retail and OEM partners as of June 30, 2008.
For system builders that date is January 31, 2009, and for Windows XP Starter (in emerging markets) and Windows XP Home for NetBooks and NetTops (formerly known as ULCPCs), the date is June 30, 2010.
Enterprise customers and purchasers of Windows Vista Ultimate or Windows Vista Business editions can choose to downgrade to Windows XP Professional if they feel the need to get ready for Windows Vista, Microsoft has said.
There is no change to the dates for Windows XP support: customers will receive mainstream support for Windows XP until April 2009, and will be able to receive extended support from Microsoft under its extended support policy until April 2014. For more information about Microsoft’s Support Lifecycle Policy visit: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy
Lombardi talks on-demand BPM
June 20, 2008
I had an interesting catch-up with business process management (BPM) firm Lombardi recently -- to be precise, the firm's senior director of marketing, Wayne Snell.
He said he had read my recent blog that broke the news of a beta launch of a new new on-demand BPM offering from Cordys, but wanted to point out that Lombardi has had an on-demand BPM tool for some time...[ click Continue Reading for more on this entry...]
Lessons in ‘Enterprise 2.0’. Lesson 1: don't mention Enterprise 2.0.
June 16, 2008
I’m still not sure I like all this ‘2.0’ nomenclature. Apart from anything else, it’s just too broad to really capture what people think they mean by it. Others think they know what they mean by it, but nobody else does. And those that know what people think they mean by it, are generally thinking something completely opposite to what people thought they knew they were thinking about it, if you know what I mean.
Imagine if the mainframe had been considered computing 1.0. That would have made midrange machines like the VAX described as 2.0, distributed servers like Unix boxes called 3.0, Windows NT would have ushered in 4.0 and thin server architectures from Citrix et al no doubt would be 5.0.
The whole Linux shout would probably have been 6.0 and now that we get to virtualisation of servers, storage and desktops, that would probably be known as 7.0.
The point is, the World Wide Web was only originated by Tim Berners Lee in 1989. Yet already we are to believe that we need a Web 2.0, or even as some are suggesting, 3.0.
Anyway I am equally unconvinced that there is any such thing as ‘Enterprise 2.0.’ Yet a whole conference called just that just ran in Boston last week, attracting attendees from far and wide to hear what Enterprise 2.0 is all about.
Anyway, whether I think the concept is based in reality is perhaps a moot point. But for those who didn’t make it along to Enterprise 2.0, here is a summary of the “top learnings” from the conference, according to David Spark and snipped from his blog [Click continue reading for more on this blog entry.]
10 ways to cut software development costs
June 13, 2008
This list of 10 ways to cut cost from the app dev lifecycle comes from Experimentus, a UK-based software management consultancy...
Would the baddest Roadrunner please step forward
June 10, 2008
The news today is that an IBM supercomputer called
Roadrunner is now the fastest in the world.
It is capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations
per second, which is a lot.
The computer will be used to help maintain the US’
nuclear weapons stockpile. Energy Secretary Samuel
Bodman said the new computer will also be used to help
solve global energy problems and "open new windows of
knowledge" in basic research.
But is it really that fast? Click Continue Reading to
vote for your fastest Roadrunner…
Artist's impression of new 3G Apple iPhone revealed
June 09, 2008
The secret sauce for Apple's much-hyped 3G iPhone is a fold-out pen licensed from Dr.Seuss in an exclusive OEM agreement, that enables users to write in up to six different colours, CBR can reveal. [Click Continue Reading for an artist's impression of the Dr.Seuss-pen-capable-3G-iPhone].
Enterprise 2.0 Conference off to Web 2.0-style start
The big buzz on the Enterprise 2.0 Conference’s home page was not whether bricks and mortar-style companies or even yesteryear’s dot-coms are ready for the Web 2.0 revolution, but the much more pressing conundrum: “Does anyone know how to download the tutorial material?”
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference is running from June 9 to 12 in Boston.
Here’s the transcript in all its glory as culled from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference home page: the way they battle through adversity to find a solution to a problem so often facing ‘traditional’ or ‘Enterprise 1.0’-style companies is enough to bring a tear to anyone’s eye, don’t you think? [You need to click Continue Reading for more on this entry...]
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June 05, 2008
CBR Dining Club speaker named EMEA analyst of the year!
The Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR) has just announced the results of a survey to identify who analyst relations practitioners believe should win the award of ‘analyst of the year’.
There were 116 respondents from around the world, and they named David Mitchell of Ovum as EMEA analyst of the year. David has spoken at several of our popular CBR Dining Club sessions, so we knew he had it in him!
David Micthell, SVP IT Research at Ovum: likes wearing braces, and being named EMEA analyst of the year.
Ray Wang of Forrester was voted analyst of the year, so congrats to Ray too.
But a special mention must go to analyst firm RedMonk, which came in the top three in the Americas despite its relatively small size. Of course CBR spotted RedMonk founder James Governor’s potential a long time ago, which is why he’s another who we have asked to speak at various CBR Dining Club sessions. Nice one, James.
Congratulations also to Freeform Dynamics, and to MWD, another small analyst firm set up by ex-Ovum people, and which also had a strong showing in the survey.
MWD’s latest recruit, Bola Rotibi was the number 8 analyst in the poll. MWD was similarly ranked in the analyst firm category on a global basis and was number 5 in EMEA, so it will come as no surprise that Bola, Neil Ward-Dutton and Neil Macehiter have all spoken at – you guessed it – CBR Dining Club events! Can we pick ‘em or can we pick ‘em?
What can I say? You’ll just have to come to a CBR Dining Club event soon to hear from a current or future analyst of the year: we clearly have an eye for quality people ;-) I'll stop mentioning CBR Dining Club now. If you haven't checked out CBR Dining Club by now, you probably never will, right?
On a more serious note, congratulations to all the analysts who have been doing something right as far as analyst relations people are concerned. But hang on, isn't that like being named monkey of the year by the zoo-keepers instead of the paying public? I dunno, it's a jungle out there!
Numara claims service desk management rivals are "going backwards"
June 03, 2008
Service desk management specialist Numara Software's Andy White -- vice president of international operations -- told me he believes some of its competitors can only be "going backwards".
That’s on the basis that analysts peg the sector’s market growth at around 8.2%, yet Numara grew sales at around 60% year-on-year in its last four quarters... [click Continue Reading for more on this entry]…
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