I look at more enterprise computing platforms that anyone should and still stay sane. But, I get really frustrated by the type of marketing hype that talks about how the next generation of some sort of platform is designed to bridge the gap between...

Recently I have been having dejá vu back to the days of PowerSoft. If you are old enough to remember, PowerSoft was the leader in making graphical development practical for the masses—rather than the object oriented gurus. Back in the early...

On Friday I got a call from a journalist who had a copy of someone’s IT spending survey. He had noticed that SOA spending was number 11 on the list so his question to me was; “Does this mean that SOA is fading as a requirement for IT...

Amazon.com is on my mind today. I ordered a book the other day; now that may not sound revolutionary but it was important to me. My father was a clinical psychologist who died 25 years ago. In the 1960s he wrote a book called “Opening Doors...

Let the blog begin… I made a new year’s resolution that I would start a blog. I promised myself that I would not try to boil the ocean, but rather share observations about what I am seeing in the industry based on meetings,...

Yesterday, I spent almost the entire day on the phone talking about Service Oriented Architecture…and then I got a headache…that is not a condemnation of SOA, it is just that too much of a good thing can make you sick (I guess)....