Daryl Plummer

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Entries Categorized as 'SOA'


To Twitter or to Tweet?: When Will We Seem as Quaint as They All Do?

by Daryl Plummer  |  September 1, 2009  |  5 Comments

Have you noticed the outmoded forms of speech that just litter our modern world? Do you remember your grandparents talking about when their grandparents first got one of those new “horse-less carriages”? Or maybe your parents remember a time when their parents talked about going to a movin’-picture? Still not close enough? How about the [...]

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IBM Couldn’t Care Less About Being Cool. But Should We?

by Daryl Plummer  |  August 18, 2009  |  10 Comments

For years I have had to interact with IBM as the “Big Dog” or the “Stodgy Legacy Guys” or the “Mainframe guys” or some such appellation that exists somewhere outside the range of any sense of coolness. The last three years have seen a change in the “grand old dame” of IT and I have [...]

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How ATT, Michael Jackson, and Farrah Fawcett Ruined My “Cloud” Plans

by Daryl Plummer  |  July 23, 2009  |  2 Comments

After a long hiatus from posting I am back with a bit of trivia that should make us all a little nervous about how easy cloud issues can become stuck in the mud. Ok, so I have a lot of friends who like to depend on me for technical support whenever they want to get [...]

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