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...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 18th February '08
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...
Dana Gardner Principal Analyst Interarbor Solutions
