I spent the beginning of last week in San Diego at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), the company's annual conference focused on all things systems management. With time to kill on the 15-hour return journey, I began to draft my thoughts only...

Apologies for the poor pun, it's the evening before the Easter break (public holidays on Friday and Monday here in the UK) and I'm feeling festive. So, it's finally happened. For those of us with the dubious title of industry watcher it's not a...

During our off air preamble with Miko Matsumura prior to recording our podcast earlier this week, he mentioned that he likes MWD's focus on Big SOA. I'd never thought of what we tell customers about SOA in this way before, but it's true that we try...