For many many years in analyst circles, it was almost obligatory when talking about IT vendors to say well of course, HP makes all its profit from ink. I remember looking, year after year, at marching rows of red figures as HP focused in on the...

As part of a report I am writing on collaboration, I have been mulling over the increasingly broad use of the words collaboration and collaborative and wondering how appropriate they are in certain contexts. Let me explain. Collaboration literally...

There have been two notable events this week in the collaboration software market - firstly the acquisition of Zimbra by Yahoo! on Tuesday, followed by Novell's reach into the broader collaboration market through the release of two new products,...

I've read a number of articles and thought pieces recently that explore the problems with approaches to IT delivery that focus too much on projects as the organising concept - particularly when it comes to SOA adoption. The shortcomings of an...

Ben Laurie of The Bunker Secure Hosting has a provocative postabout the two emerging (and that's important) leaders in user-centric identity: OpenID and CardSpace. He quite rightly points out that at present OpenID's: popularity is entirely on the...