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Quick fire opinions and commentary from the Freeform Analyst Team on tech industry news, interesting briefings with IT vendors, and other developments in the world. This blog is mostly about first impressions and immediate reactions. Check out our main website for more in-depth research and analysis.
Is IT offshoring ready for "Designed in India"?
There's an interesting article in India's Business Standard newspaper this week, about the impending plans for the World's Largest Democracy(TM) to promote itself not just as a place where things can get made or services delivered, but as a centre...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 3rd October '08
Socialtext Launches Socialtext 3.0, Battle for Enterprise 2.0 Heats Up
Socialtext, known for its enterprise wiki solution, made a serious play for the enterprise 2.0 space, by launching Socialtext 3.0 on Tuesday. The application trio includes the new Socialtext People, for social networking, a la Facebook for the...
IdaRose Sylvester, Freeform Dynamics | 2nd October '08
The Fear of Buying
Even when times have been good, when the economy is strong and everything looks rosy, those lucky folk charged with buying IT solutions frequently exhibit signs of reluctance, if not downright fear and panic, when it comes to buying new solutions...
Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics | 26th September '08
BT in tune with the market on UC?
Although the Unified Communications (UC) propositions from the key vendors in the market encompass a lot of very clever functionality, the market is dragging its heels in embracing UC in all its glory. This has been evidenced by research that...
Josie Sephton, Freeform Dynamics | 15th September '08
IT Budgets, Clouds and Virtualisation
Currently there is a lot of noise being generated regarding Cloud Computing and flexible IT infrastructures based on virtualised platforms. There is no doubt that the technologies to be found at the heart of these types of solutions have matured...
Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics | 11th September '08
Time To Take the Tablet - Vista's unsung platform
Several years ago Microsoft launched its Tablet software with much fanfare. Today the platform has almost vanished from corporate marketing programmes despite the fact that Windows Vista Tablet is a very usable piece of software with much to...
Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics | 24th August '08
Public VoIP for business - a viable option?
My previous post explored my very positive experience with public VoIP. My views haven't diminished since then, but I was left wondering how far, realistically, public VoIP could penetrate a business. My use to date of public VoIP has been...
Josie Sephton, Freeform Dynamics | 13th August '08
The long and winding road to application service availability
Strange as it may seem today, the days of hyper-resilient systems have yet to arrive. Applications today suffer service disruption events on a reasonably frequent basis. Our research shows that some 84 percent of organisations experience some form...
Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics | 7th August '08
Cloud Computing - Costly Storm or Gentle Breeze?
It's hard to read an article on the web these days without either Cloud computing or Software as a Service (SaaS to those in the know) being proffered as the answer to life, the universe and everything that is perceived to be a bottle neck in IT....
Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics | 31st July '08
Public VoIP for cheap long distance calls
I had to prepare for a research project recently that would involve conducting lengthy telephone interviews with service providers around the globe. As a home-based worker with a small company, I began to get very jittery about the likely size of...
Josie Sephton, Freeform Dynamics | 17th July '08