I have spent some time this week in the company of organisations that have been acquired by much larger vendors. For most organisations the acquisition process takes the acquired into a much larger enterprise and whilst access to the extra...

I'm in New York for the Interop show, but i didn't need to even get that far to witness a technology drama unfolding right in front of me. On Sunday New York was as usual - people, noise and of course yellow taxis everywhere. Monday was...

Storage Expo is one of the landmark events in the IT show calendar. The show acts as a gathering place of many of the established vendors supplying goods and services into this increasingly high profile area of IT and a number of...

HP held its EMEA software analyst conference recently, showed us a lot of interesting stuff and then announced the expansion of the availability of its Business Technology Optimisation (BTO) suite via a software as a service (SaaS) delivery /...

Never comment about those things you know nothing about, is the recommendation - so I won't remark on SAP nor, particularly, about Business Objects, though I have had dealings with both at various times. Aside from questions about what BO means to...

I'm due to fly to Australia in a couple of hours so thought I'd post my last blog from London for a few weeks. There is a danger this will turn into a rant, so frustrating has my last couple of weeks been... in fact, a list might be an easier and...