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There were 7 blog postings during November (2007):
Is Infrastructure moving to the clouds?
Now that I am back from my trek to Redmond, I have time to come
back to earth and think about what I heard. I think that several
issues surfaced in my mind. Here are the three key issues that I
think are worth more time:
1. We are at a turning...
Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates | 3rd November '07
Can you measure and monitor your user experience?
Since the web has increasingly become the platform for
interacting with customers, partners and the like, the notion of
managing the online experience has skyrocketed. The term user
experience is confusing. I have traditionally thought about...
Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates | 7th November '07
Five things I learned at IBM's Software Group Industry Analyst Meeting
Every year at about this time I attend IBM Software Group IT Industry Analyst meeting. This meeting is attended by about 90 industry analysts and about three times that number of IBM software group leaders, managers and support staff. It is...
Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates | 10th November '07
And the winner is Cognos
This has certainly turned into an exciting M&A season. First SAP announces that it will buy Business Objects and now IBM announces that it will buy Cognos. I am actually not surprised. While Cognos does sell traditional business intelligence...
Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates | 13th November '07
EMC's Innovation Journey: from storage to information centric computing
Today I am at EMC's annual analyst meeting. Just like IBM, EMC's theme is innovation. EMC is on an interesting journey from its roots in storage managment. EMC has been on a journey for a number of years with acquisitions in information and...
Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates | 16th November '07
The Oracle Syndrome: why there are no big bangs
I was thinking this week about Oracle. You remember them. The big database company that decided that it would be a big packaged applications company and a big middleware company. I have to give them credit for swooping in and buying their way...
Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates | 20th November '07
Does public education matter to the software community?
I know that you expected me to write something fun and exciting about some new fangled service oriented architecture platform. I have a surprise - let's call it a Thanksgiving surprise. I want to share a story with you. A few years ago I met an...
Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates | 28th November '07