Author: dan foody

I've been following the recent story of how Microsoft's Danger division and the T-Mobile Sidekick.  If you don't know much about Danger, it's basically a cloud service tied to a hardware device (the Sidekick).  All the data is stored in the cloud (email, contacts, etc.)...

If you follow Actional, you may have seen that Progress Software announced Actional 8.1 today.  The most...

Earlier this week (last Friday evening to be exact), I took off on a business trip to Australia.  I was scheduled to go from Boston to San Francisco, and from there to Sydney.  When I arrived at the airport, I checked in, cleared security, and meandered towards my gate.

When I got to...

Eric Knorr of InfoWorld recently wrote an article about how testing was the key to how to be agile without falling on your face.

While I agree that IT organizations are squeezed...

First, Marie Antoinette said "let them eat cake."  Will Oracle buying Sun have a similar outcome?

If Oracle goes down one path, it could be a brilliant strategy.  Oracle was previously competing with two other enterprise software vendors: IBM and SAP.  Now, they only...

Joe McKendrick over at eBizQ blogged about two reports that say SOA is as good as you measure it - in essence saying that the key to SOA success is...

I saw an interesting story in the news two days ago.  It's about a company that has received multiple "good governance" awards.  Well, it turns out that their "good governance" has led to the chairman having to admit that their finances were falsified.  Know...

Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group posted how SOA is Dead; Long Live Services.  This one is too juicy not to comment on!

Firstly, I totally agree...