The Inescapable data blog has two recent posts (here and here) that describe some of the gathering momentum around home working that are worth reading. I am a great fan of home working personally, although I have some short term reservations about how home working is often implemented by companies. ...
Rob Boothby has written yet another excellent paper on the subject of web office, which is his term for a collection of web based tools which are rapidly disrupting established business systems for knowledge workers, key elements of the toolkit include not surprisingly blogs, wikis, social networking, search, podcasting/event recording,...
I keep hearing people describe IT as increasingly commoditized and they are often discussing PC’s and office products at the time. This gets me frustrated because in my experience these particular technologies are anything but commodities. Although there are very many definitions of commodity I used to think that Peter...
In a previous post I described the fact that for many people you can describe their IT needs in terms of 4 layers, this is important because it means that if you try to provide a new IT system that meets a need in layer 4, when the persons needs in layers...
For the last few months I have been considering individual motivations which is pretty tricky as people are motivated by many different things, however I have made an attempt to develop a simple model that does seem to reflect the IT related motivations I see in many people. The diagram...
Brian Madden provides some useful insights into the affect of Microsoft’s intention to acquire Softricity. I for one believe this is a really big deal as it will bring virtualization technologies into the mainstream. One of the things that has held virtualization back is the fact that every enterprise has...
This afternoon – whilst on conference calls – I cloned my old 40GB disk onto a new 100GB one and installed Vista beta 2 on my TC1100. The experience seems significantly improved compared to my previous attempts. I had to install the XP versions of button driver and Q menu to get...
I now work on the Internet, which means that the only networked file systems I have access to are on my home network. I still use them extensively for file storage but I no longer have a simple way to share the files with others, either was work in progress...
As I often say I am really focussed on delivering a great end user experience to my customers, Omar describes some of the challenges to achieving this (his context is Microsoft vs iPod): You do not own the end to end experience (you make the software but not the hardware in the...
This week it’s the turn of the desktop database. Dabble DB looks like an amazingly flexible tool to create custom web databases (the image shows a database rendered as a calendar). It’s similar to tools in the enterprise space from Oracle and also SharePoint lists which get even more powerful...