Because it's having a distorting effect on the rest of the industry. I'm afraid I don't buy the argument (nor would I have to, but you get what I mean) that all software should be free, as Richard Stallmann would so dearly like. Any more than I...

It's been a couple of months since I jumped on a plane back from IBM's SOA Impact conference in Las Vegas. For those in the know, this conference is a re-named evolution of the IBM's WebSphere conference series, and for those less so, WebSphere is...

One of the most fun debates I have had in recent times was with a couple of execs from IBM and Cognos, and with a senior analyst from IDC, at last week's Information On Demand event in The Hague. The question was innocuous enough: what do you...

It always seems quite ironic to me when I read how industry analysts are accused of ‘bigging up' vendor offerings, when I and my peers seem to spend so much of our time resetting the expectations of over-optimistic marketeers. Indeed,...

Microsoft's always going to have a hard time presenting a convincing green story for desktop computing. It's not that the story itself is un-sound: power-saving features are useful as far as they go, and Microsoft as a company is keen to be a good...

It is always dangerous to speculate, particularly in this industry, which sometimes seems to be more founded on speculation than practical reality. Consider, for example, Power over Ethernet (PoE)—essentially offering a way of delivering...

As I was driving to the National Motorcycle Museum to give a presentation on archiving this morning, I listened to a constable from a Welsh police force on Radio 4, backing up the soon-to-be-announced (or has it been already?) statement that there...

It was Danny Bradbury that first mentioned Flock to me, a couple of weeks ago when I had one of my regular little tirades against Facebook (in general, I keep these out of my blogging because I might look back and find myself blaming the tool -...

As part of the briefing cycle for Aruba's announced acquisition of Airwave Wireless, I had a very interesting conversation with Roger Hockaday, EMEA marketing director for Aruba. In part it was about the announcement, but it quickly turned (as...

Like many people I suspect, I have struggled to get my head round identity management. This is less to do, I suspect, with the nature of the thing itself (great intro here, and I'd recommend Neil M's reports on the subject), and more with the fact...