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 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 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 Tim Coote | 13 Mar 2007 | Permalink | Go Green
Interesting documentary on TV last night: ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’. Superficially, it reminded me of Lomborg’s ‘the Skeptical Environmentalist’, but came over as much less coherent and consistent. I tend to the opinion that Climate Change (or the possibility of Climate Change) is really an economic problem than a scientific one.
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