Here is an e-mailed article from Peter Coffee on using salesforce.com as a platform. Interesting concept: using an ASP as a development platform and provider...
Rapid application development and the art of throwing things away By Sean McGrath One of the great - but often uncelebrated - capabilities computers give us,...
<<But, we may be selling Linux and our business short if we only push Linux as an edge or low-end infrastructure play according to Forrester Research Inc. In...
<<IBM Software next week is slated to outline plans to shrink and componentize key middleware as a way to bring rich client capabilities to the tiniest...
<<Thunder, a supercomputer recently installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is possibly the second-most powerful computing machine on the planet...
<<Just as the public adoption of telephones required a business not just to have a phone of its own, but to deploy a call center to take full advantage of this...
Evgeny Gesin has asked me to communicate this invitation to you all: "I want to let you know about Javadesk JUG, which has been chosen as one of the Top 25...
my 2 cents ... The largest manufacturer of Nokia is mindful (probably I've discussed this before) about the prospect of government regulation against it ... in...
<<There are three reasons why BPM-1 was not well accepted: It was a solution designed to span the enterprise, yet its architecture failed to recognize the...
Talking of language-specific BPM solutions I have come across some interesting comments on the new PD4J standard on a Java.net weblog: <<With the advent of...
I have written somewhere earlier about how software components are beginning to look like social structures, i.e, software architectures that works best are...
<<Brighton-based Codefarm is using evolutionary computing to swiftly search through thousands of potential solutions to these problems. <To speed up the time...
<<On my home and office networks I have firewalls and on each computer I have virus protection software. To date I have not had any serious problems, but I can...
<<Business changes constantly in small ways and large. It is rare to find an application product that can change once it is implemented. This gap is a reality...
<< Instead of scouring Web pages for keywords and links, as most search engines do, WebFountain aims to spot the opinions presented on the pages. Rather than...
Growing e-business applications By Sean McGrath In his classic essay 'No Silver Bullet'[1], The great Fred Brooks extolls the benefits of growing, as opposed...
my 2 cents ... I agree with the wisdom of the article, but sometimes the expections of us humans/managers/developers can be extended to extremes. For instance,...
When modelling business processes, upside down is the right way up By Sean McGrath One of my all time favorite ideas in problem solving is from the Hungarian...
I have recently formed a new Silent Commerce (think RFIDs) Group, which of course you would all be most welcome to join and participate in. You can find it at...
<<It's all very well, then, for Lancope to greet me at breakfast this morning with its joint announcement that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has...
What do "on-demand", "virtualisation", "autonomic" etc. mean in practice? Well, one thing they do have in common is that they are jargonbites which have...
Data storage and data transmission - a tale of two worlds By Seán McGrath Many things are very different on the planet Tralfamadore[1] but today we will focus...
We have all heard of ERP. Once hailed as a godsent successor to MRP II and legacy financial systems, it has sometimes lived up to expectations, but frequently...
<<BAM products are a first small step towards helping enterprises overcome IT blindness. This is a very active and expanding area. Gartner listed over 50...
Two HTTP verbs diverged in a wood... By Sean McGrath Listen up, summer (northern hemisphere) is upon us and it is poetry time. Robert Frost's The Road not...
PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) seems to be the fastest growing enterprise application TLA. <<Saturn is just one of a growing crowd of midsize manufacturers...
<<Relative costs of embedded system development on various platforms are as controversial a topic as the relative costs on servers, with equally spirited...
<<A new platform for commerce is taking shape. It's a concept called
business-service platforms, and it's emerging to denote hubs of
enormous networked...
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