I make no secret of the fact that I see development these days as more about orchestrating and delivering holistic business services than about writing code—although writing some code is still important, of course, for the components that make...

One very obvious silo is security and it is a particular issue because the security silo can be so dysfunctional. Application security is the obvious example: the programmers in their silo assume that the security team looks after security once the...

What interested me most at Innovate 2010 (there's a Livestram video channel for the conference here) was the emphasis on delivering software for automating Systems of Systems. This is very much the realm of systems engineering but IBM now seems to...

At one session of IBM's Innovate 2010 software conference, Steve Mills (Senior Vice President and Group Executive, IBM Software) was asked about how IBM manages (and reduces) the cost of building its own software. The answer, he says, is simply...

I'm often a little apologetic over my liking for the mainframe. After all, I used to be told (mostly by people who knew nothing about mainframes), it was only as powerful as an Intel 486 desktop, which made it appalling value for money. True, it...