I make no secret of the fact that I think the modern mainframe offers an excellent enterprise technology platform. But there are issues—in particular, that mainframe people (and technologies) speak a language all of their own and management is...

Recently, I've been looking at modern approaches to to automating business process by working with high-level abstractions (also called models) and wondering why the world switched to writing business systems in C++ back in the nineties—back...

For much of my working life, I've been involved with applications development. But this seems, to me, to exemplify the essential, dysfunctional, siloisation of IT in practice. Business users don't want applications they want business...

Leaving aside the software licensing problem, surely no-one reading this will have problems finding out what software they use! It's a no-brainer, people aren't allowed to run open source software; people certainly aren't going to buy their own...