It’s nice to see that even Don Box, who has grown up on Object orientation, application integration and database middleware gets it: For better or worse, a significant amount of the world’s data is stored outside of relational DBMSs, specifically in Microsoft Word and Excel files. As these files move...
The new Blackberry 7100, goes all conventional in looks, loosing the traditional thumb friendly keyboard for predictive text input. Reports seem positive however. Shared Spaces has more details. Another trend towards consumerization is at work here. What used to be a coporate essential is now going mainstream. Soon employees will...
Links and references to get you started with the concept: (also see Welcome! New Tablet PC User) Tablet PC Home Page @ Microsoft Tablet PC How-To Articles Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition: An Overview1 Narrated Tablet PC Presentation Resources for the Tablet PC Developer The MSDN site for Tablet...
In this article, InfoWorld talks to Greg Sullivan, lead product manager at Microsoft, about Longhorn and reports: Although it is too early for specifics, Sullivan said Longhorn should be a better performing, more stable, and more secure operating system because it will be based on the Windows Server 2003 SP1 (Service...
Nic, points out in a comment on this post titled The decline of enterprise influence over IT that CSC Research Services have recently published a report on Consumerization, which I have just read and must say makes very good reading, especially the first few pages. One of the authors is currently thinking through some of the related personal responsibility issues. This topic has sparked my interest and I have been talking through some of the implications with network, storage and infrastructure services architects. It took a while for them to get it until I used the Internet Access analogy which we all lived through:
1. When the internet was first established enterprises saw individual Internet access it as an activity of little interest, undertaken by enthusiasts only, with niche needs.
2. Then they saw it as a threat as they noticed people with networked PC’s who also had active modem connections to the internet, they started to create policies to control it
3. Then they saw it as a need, but only to be provided to the select few and only then in very controlled conditions
4. Then the saw it as obvious …
Given all of the negative talk about the delay to WinFS I just wanted to say that I have thought since I first glimpsed it that Microsoft are really onto something with WinFS, I have discussed it before but its timely to give my top five reasons again: 1. It’s...
IT is becoming more accessible and more personal in many ways. The combination has many implications.
1. If I can get at the services others provide for me from anywhere
2. If I can customise the access to these services in a way that suits me
3. If I can aggregate the information that flows to and from these services in a way that suits me
and if I can do all of this from any device, and over any network then the power that corporate IT held over me declines and IT just becomes more like the rest of the world I live in, for example:
1. Most companies don’t specify which car a salesman has to use they just provide the money to buy it.
2. They don’t specify or fund the suit he wears, just the standards he has to comply with
3. They often don’t specify the pen I use, or the type of diary
As standards mature, security becomes more pervasive and applied to content, rather than container, (e.g. the content of the document is protected, rather than the directory it resides in), IT will go in this direction. …
Greg has just written one of the few posts that starts to discuss RSS and its impact behind the firewall. That is in a corporate environment. greg hughes – dot – net – More on RSS and how it can change the way we work and live I wrote extensively...
I admit I have written a business case or two in the past that included saving paper. One actually did make the savings it claimed, but the other like millions of others resulted in more paper usage. There is a good article on the topic on the Bloor blog IT-Director.com. ...
Back in 2001, I was given the opportunity to create my own team. It was a great opportunity and I pulled a team of about 30 people together to work on Architecture and Systems Integration projects in the Infrastructure arena. We hit upon a slight problem though we could not find any space within the existing company buildings in the area. This presented us with another great opportunity, work from home, or find and design our own office. This is the story of how we designed our Office and what we learned.