Daryl Plummer

A member of the Gartner Blog Network

Archives for April, 2009


An App Store Developer War Starting? Oh, Nick, say it ain’t so!

by Daryl Plummer  |  April 24, 2009  |  2 Comments

Ok, so before I write anything else I will remind you that I like my iPhone – so take everything from this line on with a grain of salt. That is a bad thing for an analyst to admit but I didn’t say I like all the arcane and sometimes Faustian agreements that seem to [...]

2 Comments »

Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation     Tags: , , , ,

Do we Need a Smarter Planet, or Smarter People?

by Daryl Plummer  |  April 23, 2009  |  5 Comments

I just finished the 5th conversation in a month with clients asking me to do a technical overview of IBM’s Smarter Planet. It is a marketing campaign that basically says we can use technology to inject more “smartness” into everything we do from infrastructure to work to become more effective. The interesting thing about this [...]

5 Comments »

Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation     Tags: , , , , , , ,

Night of the Living Dead: Will Oracle buying Sun Raise the Specter of “Network Computing” Again?

by Daryl Plummer  |  April 20, 2009  |  6 Comments

Today, Oracle announced plans to acquire Sun Microsystems. Gartner is in the process of generating an official position on what this means. You’re going to want to see what we have to say since there will be multiple pieces dissecting this acquisition announcement. However, in the here and now, it occurred to me, after listening [...]

6 Comments »

Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation     Tags: , , , , , , , ,

G-Men #6 and #7: Cloud Deadbeats are not Welcome!

by Daryl Plummer  |  April 1, 2009  |  2 Comments

G-Men #s 6 and 7. Click images to see larger view.

2 Comments »

Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation Uncategorized     Tags: , , ,