by Steve Watts | 10 Feb 2008 | Permalink | Home Page, Software
I have to tell you about the great work done by Edoardo, one of our TKU Developers.
We have been asked by a number of organizations to assist with Symantec Veritas license audits. Veritas products provide a challenge from an audit perspective for two reasons:
1) they use license key…
by Steve Watts | 18 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Home Page
I’m hearing conflicting responses to the potential impact of the Oracle acquisition of BEA on Weblogic / AquaLogic houses.
In ‘An Oracle-BEA Combo: How It Will Affect You, Oct 2007’ Forrester recommend organizations ‘that have both Oracle and BEA products should chart their inventory and analyze the potential for consolidation…
by Tim Coote | 17 Oct 2007 | Permalink | Everything Else, Go Green, Home Page
I read a review of a couple of economic investigations into the bounce that you get if you reduce the fuel needed to heat a house or travel a mile by car. The bounce is the increase in use driven by the reduced price to keep the temperature or drive…
by Tim Coote | 07 Oct 2007 | Permalink | Everything Else
I felt a pang of schadenfreude the other day when I realised that much of the iPhone traffic in London is actually going thro’ wifi, rather than via the telcos – it’s so much faster than 3g, let alone the gsm that’s on the iPhone, and should the users take…
by Martin McEvoy | 07 Sep 2007 | Permalink | Featured, Home Page, IT Management
It is best practice to test any change in a development/ safe environment prior to implementation. The development environment should simulate the production environment so that the impact of the change can be accurately assessed. But how many IT organisations have a second development IT Organisation? They may have a…
by Tim Coote | 04 Sep 2007 | Permalink | CMDB, Everything Else, Featured, Home Page, IT Management, Project Management, Software, Software Business Models, Software Engineering
My boss, when our team was building the architecture methods (see Enterprise Architecture), was involved with the UK Government’s development of ITIL. Because I became aware of both the ITIL documentation and the analysis that we used in developing architecture methods, I think that there’s a significant issue that’s…
by Tim Coote | 30 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Everything Else, Featured, Go Green, IT Management, Virtualization
I mentioned in my first Tideway blog ( Thoughts on Climate Change) that I’d measured 2.5% of server assets were still running, although as far as IT reporting was concerned, they’d already been decommissioned. At first sight this might not seem significant compared to the cost of finding them.…
by Alex Horstmann | 28 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Software, Software Engineering, User Experience, Web 2.0
I’m often asked why I prefer to use Ajax HTML rather than XML or JSON etc. There are multiple reasons I cite, one is it’s easier to maintain but the more important one is that it’s faster and less work (both on the frontend and the backend).
Here’s…
by Tim Coote | 28 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Everything Else, Featured, IT Management, Project Management, Software, Software Business Models, Software Engineering, Teamwork, Web 2.0
Back in the early 90’s I was a consultant in a large systems integrator. Moore’s law and de facto and de jure standardisations were breaking proprietary systems’ stranglehold on customers, driving the ambitions of organsations to increase the scope of their IT across the value chain and to get economies of scale of technology ownership, while increasing the end-to-end automation of their enterprises to reduce business operational costs.
by Alex Horstmann | 16 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Everything Else
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