Robin Bloor on IT-Director.com

Is an ESB primarily an Integration Engine?

Robin Bloor, Hurwitz & Associates — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:00:00 +0100

For quite a while I had thought of an ESB as primarily being SOA message and interface management software. In reality though, that is not where the origin of the ESB lies. [Read More...]

The gradual triumph of Linux

Robin Bloor, Hurwitz & Associates — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:00:00 +0100

The trends suggest that Linux will become the dominant OS-the commodity OS-both for the PC and the server, to the eventual detriment of Microsoft's revenues. However... [Read More...]

What is CEBP (Communications Enabled Business Processing)?

Robin Bloor, Hurwitz & Associates — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Communications Enabled Business Processing (CEBP) is, if you didn't know, the integration of unified communications into BPM. [Read More...]

It's curtains for portals

Robin Bloor, Hurwitz & Associates — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Portals are miles away from being able to fit into SOA. It's time to close the door on portals, and tiptoe quietly away. [Read More...]

Why 64 Bits Will Soon Matter

Robin Bloor, Hurwitz & Associates — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:05:00 +0100

Cast your mind back fifteen years, if you can. Believe it or not, that was when the IT industry suddenly started to get excited about 64 bit computing. [Read More...]

5 Reasons Why Google Will Challenge Microsoft's Office Monopoly

Robin Bloor, Hurwitz & Associates — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Microsoft ought to be seriously worried about Google Apps and here are my 5 reasons why this is so. [Read More...]

Social Networking and Think Space

Robin Bloor, Hurwitz & Associates — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Social networking was the main theme at last month's Lotusphere. Here I offer a look at Lotus Connections and Think Space. [Read More...]

Social Networks

Robin Bloor, Hurwitz & Associates — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:00:00 +0100

We hear the words Social Network a great deal these days. It began with Craig's List, not long after the Internet itself became a phenomenon. [Read More...]

SOA and Software Testing

Robin Bloor, Hurwitz & Associates — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:00:00 +0100

Software testing is one of the areas of SOA that is not discussed a great deal. There is an assumption that, with SOA, software testing procedures dont need to change much. Unfortunately it isn't so. [Read More...]

Infrastructure Management - The Growing Opportunity

Robin Bloor, Hurwitz & Associates — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:00:00 +0100

For the IT user, technology change looks very much like a growing problem, but for the IT vendors it looks more like an opportunity. [Read More...]

Lights out on Lights Out Computing

Robin Bloor, Hurwitz & Associates — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:00:00 +0100

When did it happen? Im not sure I could put a date on it, but I believe it was sometime in the 1990s when lights out computing died. [Read More...]