Well, here we are – another year nearing its end, and what have we got to show for it? From a technology point of view, I think there’s been a lot happening out there – not only have we seen a re-appearance of the big merger and...

OK - on to other things that struck me as being important during 2005. Firstly, the commoditisation arguments continue on—you know, the mainframe and large computers are dead, as blade computers at a few Euro cents a piece take over the...

Many of our colleagues in the analyst community have published figures showing that around 70% of a company's IT budget is spent on maintenance—just keeping the IT systems that we already have running. A sobering thought, but we were not too...