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The blog of Jon Collins, not quite drowning in the information ocean.
Why I'm interested in Open Source
Because it's having a distorting effect on the rest of the industry. I'm afraid I don't buy the argument (nor would I have to, but you get what I mean) that all software should be free, as Richard Stallmann would so dearly like. Any more than I...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 17th July '08
IBM: SOA Far, SOA Good?
It's been a couple of months since I jumped on a plane back from IBM's SOA Impact conference in Las Vegas. For those in the know, this conference is a re-named evolution of the IBM's WebSphere conference series, and for those less so, WebSphere is...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 13th June '08
Master Process Management? Now, there's a thought.
One of the most fun debates I have had in recent times was with a couple of execs from IBM and Cognos, and with a senior analyst from IDC, at last week's Information On Demand event in The Hague. The question was innocuous enough: what do you...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 10th June '08
IP Address Management - a latent need, not a market bandwagon
It always seems quite ironic to me when I read how industry analysts are accused of ‘bigging up' vendor offerings, when I and my peers seem to spend so much of our time resetting the expectations of over-optimistic marketeers. Indeed,...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 8th June '08
Microsoft Bloat, Green and the Vista opportunity
Microsoft's always going to have a hard time presenting a convincing green story for desktop computing. It's not that the story itself is un-sound: power-saving features are useful as far as they go, and Microsoft as a company is keen to be a good...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 4th April '08
Can Power over Ethernet make networks greener?
It is always dangerous to speculate, particularly in this industry, which sometimes seems to be more founded on speculation than practical reality. Consider, for example, Power over Ethernet (PoE)—essentially offering a way of delivering...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 18th February '08
On police paperwork and technology promise
As I was driving to the National Motorcycle Museum to give a presentation on archiving this morning, I listened to a constable from a Welsh police force on Radio 4, backing up the soon-to-be-announced (or has it been already?) statement that there...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 7th February '08
Flock rocks - and Microsoft is not going to take over the world. Deal with it.
It was Danny Bradbury that first mentioned Flock to me, a couple of weeks ago when I had one of my regular little tirades against Facebook (in general, I keep these out of my blogging because I might look back and find myself blaming the tool -...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 17th January '08
Bringing wireless networks into the management fold
As part of the briefing cycle for Aruba's announced acquisition of Airwave Wireless, I had a very interesting conversation with Roger Hockaday, EMEA marketing director for Aruba. In part it was about the announcement, but it quickly turned (as...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 16th January '08
Why 2008 for enterprise identity management?
Like many people I suspect, I have struggled to get my head round identity management. This is less to do, I suspect, with the nature of the thing itself (great intro here, and I'd recommend Neil M's reports on the subject), and more with the fact...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 4th January '08