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Moving my Blog

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 any offense Read More...

Posted Friday, December 29, 2006 11:53 AM by Michael Platt | 2 Comments

Innovation and Llamas

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 Read More...

Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 12:45 PM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

Windows Live Writer

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

Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:33 PM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

Blinq

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 Rails. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:22 PM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

Gartners Latest Hype cycle

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. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:02 PM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

Software + Services: An Architectural Perspective

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! Read More...

Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 2:04 PM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

Innovation

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 Read More...

Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 1:41 PM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

The Opportunity for Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

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. Read More...

Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 3:42 PM by Michael Platt | 4 Comments

The Service Platform

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 Read More...

Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 11:03 AM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

Disruption in the IT market

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 Read More...

Posted Sunday, July 30, 2006 2:12 PM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

Service Component Architecture

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 Read More...

Posted Sunday, July 30, 2006 11:32 AM by Michael Platt | 3 Comments

The New Marketing

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. Read More...

Posted Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:54 AM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

The Next Disruption

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 Read More...

Posted Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:53 AM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

Broswer / Client War part 1 million.

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 Read More...

Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 2:05 PM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments

Experience And Service

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 Read More...

Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 1:51 PM by Michael Platt | 0 Comments