Integration Competency Centers: Optimization vs. Investment
Whenever we hang out at enterprise architect conferences, our first question to those folks is, how do you make yourselves relevant? All too often, the ideals of enterprise architecture get...
View ArticleStill Room for Billion-Dollar Plays: A Conversation with M.R. Rangaswami
On the eve of last year’s Software conference, Sand Hill Group principal M.R. Rangaswami spoke on the prospects for innovation in a consolidating software industry. Evidently there was some room left...
View ArticleHP and EDS: Picking Up where Carly Left Off
Only leaked yesterday, this morning HP confirmed it would acquire EDS for north of $12 billion. The obvious driver, as colleague Dana Gardner noted, is that with the IBM and its global services...
View ArticleIs Social Media vs. Knowledge Management a generational war?
The Y2K issue a decade ago brought to light a critical problem facing many organizations: what happens when your most experienced minds retire? That’s especially critical in the case of skillsets for...
View ArticleThe Network is the Computer
It’s sometimes funny that history takes some strange turns. Back in the 1980s, Sun began building its empire in the workgroup by combining two standards: UNIX boxes with TCP/IP networks built in. Sun’s...
View ArticleHP analyst meeting 2010: First Impressions
Over the past few years, HP under Mark Hurd has steadily gotten its act together in refocusing on the company’s core strengths with an unforgiving eye on the bottom line. Sitting at HP’s annual analyst...
View ArticleIBM offers to buy Sterling Commerce
We should have seen this one coming. IBM’s offer to buy Sterling Commerce for $1.4 billion from AT&T closes a major gap in the WebSphere portfolio, extending IBM’s array of internal integrations...
View ArticleLeo Apotheker to target HP’s forgotten business
Ever since its humble beginnings in the Palo Alto garage, HP has always been kind of a geeky company – in spite of Carly Fiorina’s superficial attempts to prod HP towards a vision thing during her...
View ArticleIBM’s Software Complex
Sometimes the news is that there is no news. Well, Steve Mills did tell us that IBM is investing the bulk of its money in software and that between now and 2015, it would continue to make an average of...
View ArticleBig Data analytics in the cloud could be HP’s enterprise trump card
Unfortunately, scheduling conflicts have kept us from attending Leo Apotheker’s keynote today before the HP Analyst Summit in San Francisco. But yesterday, he tipped his cards for his new software...
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