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By David Norfolk November 18, 2011
I was speaking at a Unicom workshop a week or so ago. We were exploring two new freedoms – Cloud and Agile – and wondering...
By David Norfolk August 19, 2011
I’m coming down with a bout of schizophrenia. I know that IT is now taking a further lurch in its continuing journey towards abstraction, with...
By David Norfolk August 04, 2011
Just a heads-up about the new Bribery Act 2010 (implemented July 2011), in case IT people think this doesn’t affect them. This Act creates four...
By David Norfolk July 21, 2011
OK, some twenty years after InfoWorld editor Stewart Alsop announced the death of the mainframe (see the New York Times article here), it’s time to...
By David Norfolk July 11, 2011
Perforce exemplifies the “conservative” approach of Christopher Seiwald (CEO and founder of Perforce Software)-do just one thing (version management) and do it really, really well....
By David Norfolk June 13, 2011
I’ve been at Sybase’s Analyst Summit at the New York Stock Exchange. The immediate point of interest, of course, is that Sybase still seems happy...
By David Norfolk June 01, 2011
Marc van Zadelhoff (Director, Worldwide Strategy, IBM Security Solutions at IBM) is speaking at PCTY (Pulse Comes to You), 2011, London, an offshoot of IBM’s...
By David Norfolk May 09, 2011
I’ve just been at an Intel analyst/reseller/partner symposium, and it’s been rather interesting (quite apart from how wonderful the marble pavements in Dubrovnik are). So,...
By David Norfolk April 19, 2011
In my opinion, the application-centric paradigm is no longer fully up to the task of implementing the “world of things”, the increasingly pervasive collection of...
By David Norfolk March 31, 2011
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...
By David Norfolk March 28, 2011
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...
By David Norfolk March 22, 2011
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...
By David Norfolk March 15, 2011
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...
By David Norfolk February 25, 2011
A continuing background story for me is the legitimisation of the mainframe as just another enterprise server. But, it’s an enterprise server that does all...
By David Norfolk January 24, 2011
“Security” is really a lot to do with perception and point of view. Yesterday, preventing “whistle-blowing” was a compliance issue; today, post WikiLeaks, allowing whistle-blowing...
