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 [...]
Entries from April 2009
An App Store Developer War Starting? Oh, Nick, say it ain’t so!
April 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Cloud · Emerging Phenomena · Emerging Trends · Service Orientation
Do we Need a Smarter Planet, or Smarter People?
April 23rd, 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 [...]
Tags: Cloud · Emerging Phenomena · Emerging Trends · Service Orientation
Night of the Living Dead: Will Oracle buying Sun Raise the Specter of “Network Computing” Again?
April 20th, 2009 · 5 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 to [...]
Tags: Cloud · Emerging Phenomena · Emerging Trends · Service Orientation
G-Men #6 and #7: Cloud Deadbeats are not Welcome!
April 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments
G-Men #s 6 and 7. Click images to see larger view.
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