I have moved my blog to xxx. In future all my blog posts will be there. Note, someone has taken over my domain and published offensive materials so I have removed the link until this is resolved to avoid pointing to the site. My apologies for...

No, I didnt get it either but here is an article by IBM on Llamas and innovation . The interesting thing for me is that Andy used to work for me many moons ago at IBM and hasnt changed a bit! He's now a master inventor though, we didnt have those in my...

We have just announced availability of the Beta of Windows Live Writer. This is a really great product and very important (IMHO)

We have just announced a new tool called Blinq which produces a webform from a database schema. This is a really neat product which will make generating database based applications much easier. Its been suggested that it's a framework like Ruby on...

There are a ton of things that have come out which I feel are pretty important that I haven't blogged about so I will try to catch up a bit. First off Gartner's latest prognostications put Web 2.0 at the top of the things to watch for the enterprise...

I have spent the last couple of weeks pulling together my rather disjointed thoughts about the Architecture of Software + Services into a short article which has just been published on MSDN . Enjoy!

I have been blogging for a while about business value and how the whole Web 2.0 thing in the enterprise will be about business value and not productivity . I am convinced this is the way things are going and so was doing some research in the whole business...

Dislocations cause business opportunities, new marketplaces and new models of commerce. This latest dislocation is no different than previous dislocations as can bee seen from the huge number of small dynamic startups that there are in the Web 2.0 space...

The Consumer web (Web 2.0) and the enterprise Web (SOA) both have value and applicability, the consumer web where responsiveness and scale are important the enterprise web where security and integrity are paramount. It is highly unlikely that organizations...

So how has this disruption effected the IT market? In this context we have to think of the market as being the Enterprise Market and the Consumer Market. The Enterprise can in turn be thought of as two different parts; the Business element and the IT...

So yet again I think I must be stupid because I don’t understand the whole Service Component Architecture thing. It looks like a programming model (e.g. set of API's) to build web services. I thought that’s one of the many things that J2EE was meant to...

As I have commented on before the disruption that is taking place in the consumer space that is commonly called web 2.0 will rapidly move into the enterprise and cause massive dislocations in product development, marketing, sales, support and training...

We are entering a time of rapid change in the IT industry which will cause considerable disruption and change in business, IT companies and the way that people perceive and use technologies. This dislocation is similar to the PC and internet revolutions...

The "browser can do everything" vs "one (old) size wont fit all" argument rumbles on with Robert and Tara (love the picture) on one side and Joe and Ryan on the other. I remember when the PC was first attached to the Mainframe using a 3270 card I took...

The snag with my previous diagram was that there was a big oval called delivery that S+S didnt address. Ray has just fixed that by describing the Experience Hub at the Microsoft's annual Finacial Analysts event. He also rolled up Software + Services into...

On the principle that a picture is worth a thousand words here is how Software + Services fits together:

So now I can add some of the Microsoft Product set to my table: Model Name Consumer Enterprise Sales Marchitecture Web 2.0 SOA Service Software Saas Servers Live Windows Conceptual...

Ok, so I am pretty slow. Ray Ozzie et al have been banging on for a while about Software + Services and I thought it meant office type software and web services so couldnt really see what all the big fuss was about. Duh, I just realised it means Web 2...

Consumer Enterprise Name User Level Mashups Composite applications Application Business Conceptual Social Network Sharing Collaboration Discussion email Communication Tags Discovery ...

Server based systems such as ERP, CRM, email, database and collaboration are well understood as single standalone applications today. They provide the highest levels of service, reliability, scalability, availability, security and integrity and are what...

Web 2.0 Innovation Marketing Sales Support Training

I have been trying to come up with a layers of Web 2.0 diagram (a bit like the old OSI 7 layer diagram ) which ties together all the buzz technologies and came up with this: Mashups Application Conceptual Composite apps...

So I'm confused. Nothing new there but I went to a Softricity presentation the other day (a very neat piece of technology by the way) where the presenter said that Softricity was " Software as a Service ". Well to me it was more of a software deployment...

A while ago I blogged about Web Services and REST but Zapthink have just published a much more in depth and considered article which I completely agree with.

I'm not much of a fan of analysts in general however I think that they really seem to have "got it" about Web 2.0 and its use in the enterprise, much more so than the Web 2.0 industry which seems to be much more about hype than substance. Here is another...