Technology
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Regulating the Land that Moore’s Law Forgot
And so we come full circle: “IBM accused of abusing position in European mainframe market”. Out of the limelight, IBM has spent significant time and money lobbying various governments to hobble competitors in the last fifteen years, all the while maintaining the biggest monopoly in technology with the mainframe. Now the antitrust spotlight returns to…
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SOA: “Never Mind”
Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton Group writes an obituary for SOA and says: “SOA” has become a bad word. It must be removed from our vocabulary. Coming from one of the bigger SOA enthusiasts, this is a milestone. She attributes its death to the recession, underscoring it with the spiffy accompanying illustration. But the…
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A Little Sunshine
I’ve been meaning to post on Sun’s latest earnings, but have been delinquent. It is harder to poke fun in light of their thousands of pending job cuts, but my post speaks to the root cause of Sun’s predicament: software. I have often questioned Sun’s software strategy (here and here), going back to the fixation…