The Norfolk Punt - Blog Archive for January (2011)

There were 4 blog postings during January (2011):

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SAM standard revised
One of my usual minor rants is around software licence management and its facile identification with SAM—Software Asset Management. License management, I might suggest, is a burden for the business, invented by companies who seemed to...
David Norfolk, Bloor Research | 6th January '11

Resurgence of the CIM?
So, what's the really hard bit about building automated business systems or services? Picking the right programming language and understanding how to exploit all its options? Hardly; you only need about a dozen basic concepts to make a programming...
David Norfolk, Bloor Research | 7th January '11

Combining High and Low Ceremony
Following on from my last piece on CIM (the Computation Independent Model), I thought I'd take a quick look at Aptero Solutions' technology offering. I have to admit that I seem to be rather on Aptero's wavelength and probably have been since the...
David Norfolk, Bloor Research | 13th January '11

Let's forget about security....
Security is really a lot to do with perception and point of view. Yesterday, preventing whistle-blowing was a compliance issue; today, post WikiLeaks, allowing whistle-blowing is starting to look like it might become a compliance issue; and the US...
David Norfolk, Bloor Research | 25th January '11