The Sun Also Rises This cliché headline is one that Sun Microsystems has been waiting to read for many, many quarters. Specifically how many quarters, I don't know, but 4 or so years worth I think. When you were once a technology leader and...

SOA for Dummies The Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies book we (Me, Judith Hurwitz, Carol Baroudi & Marcia Kaufman) have been writing is now written and on its way to the printers. I'm awestruck to discover, from Carol Baroudi, that if...

Microsoft At Sea Microsoft became the worlds dominant software company in the early 1990s and from then on continued to operate at an unprecedented level of profitability—building up a massive cash pile on a quarterly basis. By the late 1990s...

A few weeks ago I wrote of being impressed by Oracle's efforts in SOA. I also declared that “an interesting thing about Oracle is that it claims (and I'm inclined to believe the PR on this) that it is recognized as a leading SOA...

This week AVID stands for AntiVirus Is Defunct. I'll provide yet more evidence of this sorry truth and hopefully you'll get the point. A few weeks ago I came across an article on the Internet which was advocating installing two separate anti-virus...