CA Labs I spent part of last week at Marne La Vallée Chessy with CA. Marne La Vallée is conveniently located near to Charles De Gaule airport and it is within driving distance of Chantilly, Chartres, Versaille and that great European capital,...

Microsoft Comes Out Fighting This week Microsoft finally declared war on Google, using Internet Explorer 7 as the WMD. Microsoft is putting a search capability in the top right corner of its browser that will jump right to Microsoft's search...

SOA Rant Mentioning that Judith Hurwitz, Carol Baroudi and I are writing “SOA for Dummies” (our deadline for finishing this is towards the end of June) has generated more interest than I would have expected. SOA software vendors express...

Google: Giants and Pygmies You may not have noticed, but I never did a blog posting last week. I was so busy that I never had time to sit down and contemplate the navel of the IT universe. I was in the UK doing some consultancy work. (This is...