One of the interesting things about my new job is that I get out a lot and talk to customers who are struggling to build real systems and understand their problems. I love customers; they just say what they think and what they are trying to do simply...

So January is interop month at Microsoft: https://www.interopmonth.com/home/ HIS 2005 are doing a number of webcasts as part of that: TechNet Webcast: HIS Bi-directional Transaction and Data Inter-op Between Windows and IBM Mainframe Systems (Level 200...

So I haven’t been doing much blogging recently (ok, so I haven’t done any). This is because I took on a new job a few months back as a manager and so have been busy recruiting / planning etc which is not conducive to blogging. Today I was talking about...

I have just presented to a group of very senior IT managers in very large UK Enterprises about the Microsoft Dynamic Systems Initiative . DSI is all about system operation and administration and is based on a model driven approach using a metamodel called...